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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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Venue: Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room [clear filter]
Friday, May 4
 

1:15pm

Personified: Finding Your Voice in Someone Else's Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFULLTaylor Liljegren

2:30pm

Circling the square: Joyful (and helpful) critique workshop Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFILLINGMelissa Varnavas

3:45pm

FDU MFA Poets: This Time It's Terminal Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFILLINGKevin Carey • R.G. Evans • Mark Hillringhouse
 
Saturday, May 5
 

11:00am

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

12:15pm

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

2:00pm

What Big Words You Have: Using Fairy Tales in Your Poetry Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFULLMollie Chandler
 
Sunday, May 6
 

10:15am

Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual Practice Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFULLNadia Colburn

11:30am

Collaborative Writing: Solidarity, Strategy & Spark Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFULLRebecca Hart Olander • Elizabeth Paul

1:00pm

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

2:30pm

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