2018 Massachusetts Poetry Festival has ended

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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

2:30pm EDT

Circling the square: Joyful (and helpful) critique workshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMelissa Varnavas

3:45pm EDT

FDU MFA Poets: This Time It's TerminalFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomKevin Carey • R.G. Evans • Mark Hillringhouse

11:00am EDT

Performers and ProfessorsFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMichael Brown • Richard Cambridge • Regie Gibson • Melissa Guillet • Valerie Lawson

12:15pm EDT

KabuMerikanas: Women in Cape Verdean American CultureLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomCandida Rose Baptista • Iva Brito • Jarita Davis

2:00pm EDT

What Big Words You Have: Using Fairy Tales in Your PoetryFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMollie Chandler

10:15am EDT

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

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

2:30pm EDT

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