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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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Friday
, May 4
1:15pm EDT
Personified: Finding Your Voice in Someone Else's
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Taylor Liljegren
Resisting the Erasure of Our (Im)Migrant Roots: Workshop with María Luisa Arroyo
LIMITED
Old Town Hall, 2nd floor
María Luisa Arroyo
2:30pm EDT
Circling the square: Joyful (and helpful) critique workshop
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Melissa Varnavas
Golden Walkman
FILLING
Old Town Hall, 2nd floor
David Walker • Joseph Gould
Poets on Poetry: An Ars Poetica Workshop
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
Marjorie Tesser • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Martelli
Saturday
, May 5
8:45am EDT
Poetry and Yoga
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel, Essex Room
Casey Roland • Stephanie Kirkos
9:30am EDT
Suturing with Wounds: Writing Poems About Long Term Illness
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Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
Sean Thomas Dougherty
11:00am EDT
Poems out of Music
FULL
New Liberty Charter School, Room 3
Christopher Nye
Political/Civic Poetry
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New Liberty Charter School, Room 1
Paul Saint-Amand • Gayle C. Heney • C. J. Morse
12:15pm EDT
Memory and Redemption
FILLING
New Liberty Charter School, Room 3
Polly Brown
Verbing: Writing Poetry from the Body
FILLING
New Liberty Charter School, Room 2
Cathie Desjardins
2:00pm EDT
Salvage & Adventure: Poetic Play, Remix, Erase, Collage and Assemble!
FILLING
PEM Create Spaces
Ching-In Chen
Start Right: Writing First Lines
FILLING
New Liberty Charter School, Room 1
Dawn Paul
What Big Words You Have: Using Fairy Tales in Your Poetry
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Mollie Chandler
3:15pm EDT
A Furious Din: Poetry of Survival
FULL
PEM Create Spaces
Tamiko Beyer • Duy Doan • Joseph O. Legaspi
The Poetic Obsession
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
Oliver De La Paz
Sunday
, May 6
10:15am EDT
"all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day—": Emily Dickinson and the botanical world
FILLING
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
Michael Medeiros • Lucy Abbott
Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual Practice
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Nadia Colburn
11:30am EDT
Collaborative Writing: Solidarity, Strategy & Spark
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Rebecca Hart Olander • Elizabeth Paul
Poetry From The Heart: Writing Poems as a Means to Heal in the Era of Trump
FILLING
PEM Create Spaces
Eunice Flanders • Beth Platow
1:00pm EDT
The Vocabulary of Place: Finding the Right Words for a Particular Setting. Learning from Sylvia Plath’s “Point Shirley”—A Generative Workshop
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Tom Daley
1:30pm EDT
MASTER CLASS WITH LLOYD SCHWARTZ: Experimenting with Form
LIMITED
Old Town Hall, 2nd floor
Lloyd Schwartz
2:30pm EDT
MASTER CLASS WITH GAIL MAZUR: Writing Out of Grief and Loss
LIMITED
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Gail Mazur
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