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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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1:15pm EDT

Personified: Finding Your Voice in Someone Else'sFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomTaylor Liljegren Resisting the Erasure of Our (Im)Migrant Roots: Workshop with María Luisa ArroyoLIMITED Old Town Hall, 2nd floorMaría Luisa Arroyo

2:30pm EDT

Circling the square: Joyful (and helpful) critique workshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMelissa Varnavas Golden WalkmanFILLING Old Town Hall, 2nd floorDavid Walker • Joseph Gould Poets on Poetry: An Ars Poetica WorkshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomMarjorie Tesser • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Martelli

8:45am EDT

Poetry and YogaFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Essex RoomCasey Roland • Stephanie Kirkos

9:30am EDT

Suturing with Wounds: Writing Poems About Long Term IllnessFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomSean Thomas Dougherty

11:00am EDT

Poems out of MusicFULL New Liberty Charter School, Room 3Christopher Nye Political/Civic PoetryFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 1Paul Saint-Amand • Gayle C. Heney • C. J. Morse

12:15pm EDT

Memory and RedemptionFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 3Polly Brown Verbing: Writing Poetry from the BodyFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 2Cathie Desjardins

2:00pm EDT

Salvage & Adventure: Poetic Play, Remix, Erase, Collage and Assemble!FILLING PEM Create SpacesChing-In Chen Start Right: Writing First LinesFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 1Dawn Paul What Big Words You Have: Using Fairy Tales in Your PoetryFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMollie Chandler

3:15pm EDT

A Furious Din: Poetry of SurvivalFULL PEM Create SpacesTamiko Beyer • Duy Doan • Joseph O. Legaspi The Poetic ObsessionFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomOliver de la Paz

10:15am EDT

"all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day—": Emily Dickinson and the botanical worldFILLING Salem Witch Trials MemorialMichael Medeiros • Lucy Abbott Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual PracticeFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomNadia Colburn

11:30am EDT

Collaborative Writing: Solidarity, Strategy & SparkFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomRebecca Hart Olander • Elizabeth Paul Poetry From The Heart: Writing Poems as a Means to Heal in the Era of TrumpFILLING PEM Create SpacesEunice 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 WorkshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomTom Daley

1:30pm EDT

MASTER CLASS WITH LLOYD SCHWARTZ: Experimenting with FormLIMITED Old Town Hall, 2nd floorLloyd Schwartz

2:30pm EDT

MASTER CLASS WITH GAIL MAZUR: Writing Out of Grief and LossLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomGail Mazur