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2018 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

10 YEARS OF MASS POETRY!

Our 2018 headliners: Sonia Sanchez · Kaveh Akbar · Duy Doan · Jeffrey Harrison · Dorianne Laux · Erika Meitner · Carl Phillips · Nicole Sealey · Sean Thomas Dougherty · Rhina P. Espaillat

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#1

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy

#2

Reading with Martha Collins, Joan Houlihan, and Ellen Dore Watson

#3

"all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day—": Emily Dickinson and the botanical world

#4

The Edna Project

#5

The Poet, The Artist, The Printer: Book Arts and the Small Press

#6

Poetry From The Heart: Writing Poems as a Means to Heal in the Era of Trump

#7

Building an Online Writing Community: Lessons from the Poetry Cleanse

#8

Writing While Sober

#9

To the Bone: Poems of Work and Manual Labor

#10

HER STORY IS: American & Iraqi Women Artists Collaborate in Dubai

#11

Poetry Taboos and You: How and Why to Break the Rules (craft talk)

#12

Bared: Poetry on Bras and Breasts

#13

The Word Works

#14

Lesley MFA Poetry Faculty Reading

#15

Lesser Heard Voices East and West: Poetry in Translation

#16

Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual Practice

#17

Collaborative Writing: Solidarity, Strategy & Spark

#18

The Vocabulary of Place: Finding the Right Words for a Particular Setting. Learning from Sylvia Plath’s “Point Shirley”—A Generative Workshop

#19

On Our Own Terms: Underrepresented Voices in Poetry

#20

The Low-Residency MFA: Is It Right for You?

#21

MASTER CLASS WITH GAIL MAZUR: Writing Out of Grief and Loss

#22

MASTER CLASS WITH LLOYD SCHWARTZ: Experimenting with Form