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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
Adriatic Restaurant and Bar
3:30pm •
Poetry Meet-Up!
Hawthorne Hotel, Library Room
1:15pm •
Poetry of Place: Boston
FILLING
2:30pm •
Headline Reading - Rhina P. Espaillat
FILLING
3:45pm •
In the Still of the Night
FILLING
9:00pm •
College Slammers
LIMITED
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
1:15pm •
Personified: Finding Your Voice in Someone Else's
FULL
2:30pm •
Circling the square: Joyful (and helpful) critique workshop
FILLING
3:45pm •
FDU MFA Poets: This Time It's Terminal
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
1:15pm •
Circling the Earth: The Poetry of Refuge and Sanctuary
FILLING
2:30pm •
Poets on Poetry: An Ars Poetica Workshop
FILLING
3:45pm •
The Modern Devotional
FULL
Old Town Hall, 2nd floor
1:15pm •
Resisting the Erasure of Our (Im)Migrant Roots: Workshop with María Luisa Arroyo
LIMITED
2:30pm •
Golden Walkman
FILLING
PEM Atrium
7:30pm •
Headline Reading - Dorianne Laux and Carl Phillips
FULL
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
9:30pm •
Food 4 Thot - Live Podcast!
LIMITED
Saturday
, May 5
Hawthorne Hotel, Essex Room
8:45am •
Poetry and Yoga
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel, Library Room
9:30am •
Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry
FILLING
11:00am •
In Transit: A Poetry Reading with Brionne Janae, Joseph Legaspi, Leah Umansky, and Jenny Xie
FILLING
12:15pm •
3 Nations Anthology Reading: Native, Canadian & New England Writers
LIMITED
2:00pm •
We're Here, We're Queer: New Poetry Books by LGBTQ Writers
LIMITED
3:15pm •
10th Anniversary of the UMass Boston MFA Program
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
11:00am •
Performers and Professors
FILLING
12:15pm •
KabuMerikanas: Women in Cape Verdean American Culture
LIMITED
2:00pm •
What Big Words You Have: Using Fairy Tales in Your Poetry
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
9:30am •
Suturing with Wounds: Writing Poems About Long Term Illness
FILLING
11:00am •
Nasty Women Poets: A Reading and Panel Discussion of Unapologetic, Subversive, Feminist Verse
FILLING
12:15pm •
The Poetry of Predation: Women Poets On Writing the Poetry of Misogyny, Abuse, and Violence
LIMITED
2:00pm •
Fathers, Present and Absent: Encounters, Enigmas, and Elegies
FILLING
3:15pm •
The Poetic Obsession
FILLING
New Liberty Charter School, Room 1
11:00am •
Political/Civic Poetry
FILLING
2:00pm •
Start Right: Writing First Lines
FILLING
New Liberty Charter School, Room 2
12:15pm •
Verbing: Writing Poetry from the Body
FILLING
New Liberty Charter School, Room 3
11:00am •
Poems out of Music
FULL
12:15pm •
Memory and Redemption
FILLING
2:00pm •
Blackout Poetry Creative Studio--Drop-in Session!
LIMITED
Pedestrian Walkway
11:00am •
Small Press Fair and Literary Fair
PEM Connect BLDG
11:00am •
Satellites, Adoptees, and Undocumented Immigrants: Kundiman and UndocuPoets Present Underrepresented Asian American Narratives
LIMITED
12:15pm •
Poets on Autism: Hope in the Helicopter Rain
LIMITED
2:00pm •
Cave Canem
LIMITED
3:15pm •
Common Threads
FILLING
PEM Create Spaces
10:30am •
Breaking Through the Stigma: Writing Through Addiction and Recovery
FULL
12:15pm •
Love's Executive Order Reading
LIMITED
2:00pm •
Salvage & Adventure: Poetic Play, Remix, Erase, Collage and Assemble!
FILLING
3:15pm •
A Furious Din: Poetry of Survival
FULL
PEM Morse Auditorium
12:15pm •
Headline Reading-Kaveh Akbar and Nicole Sealey
FILLING
2:00pm •
Headline Reading - Duy Doan, Jeffery Harrison, and Erika Meitner
LIMITED
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
9:30am •
How Voice Finds Form: Making Our Narrative Poems Sing!
FILLING
11:00am •
To Carry Across: Poetry in Translation
LIMITED
12:15pm •
Poetry as Social Action: Panel Discussion, Hopeful Prompts
FILLING
2:00pm •
Story Retold/Renewed: Women Retelling History
LIMITED
9:30pm •
What Poetry Means to Me: Stories about Poems, Poets, & Poetry
FULL
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 2
12:15pm •
Through Barbed Wire Presents: Invisible Voices
LIMITED
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass Room
11:00am •
Critical Collaboration: Poets and Editors
FILLING
12:15pm •
Room 222: Boston University Poets & the Lineage of the Confessional Poem
LIMITED
2:00pm •
You Are Here: Writing From Your Place in History
FILLING
3:15pm •
State of Poetry
FULL
The Bridge at 211
11:00am •
Street Cred: Four Massachusetts Barrow Street Press Poets
LIMITED
12:15pm •
Labor & Delivery: Emerging Poets on Notions of Literary Success
LIMITED
2:00pm •
Salamander 25th Anniversary Reading
LIMITED
3:15pm •
Celebrating Our 25th: Four Way Books Reading
LIMITED
7:30pm •
Headline Reading -Sonia Sanchez
FULL
Sunday
, May 6
Hawthorne Hotel, Library Room
9:00am •
HER STORY IS: American & Iraqi Women Artists Collaborate in Dubai
LIMITED
10:15am •
On Our Own Terms: Underrepresented Voices in Poetry
LIMITED
11:30am •
The Low-Residency MFA: Is It Right for You?
LIMITED
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
10:15am •
Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual Practice
FULL
11:30am •
Collaborative Writing: Solidarity, Strategy & Spark
FULL
1:00pm •
The Vocabulary of Place: Finding the Right Words for a Particular Setting. Learning from Sylvia Plath’s “Point Shirley”—A Generative Workshop
FILLING
2:30pm •
MASTER CLASS WITH GAIL MAZUR: Writing Out of Grief and Loss
LIMITED
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
9:00am •
Poetry Taboos and You: How and Why to Break the Rules (craft talk)
FILLING
10:15am •
Bared: Poetry on Bras and Breasts
FILLING
11:30am •
Lesley MFA Poetry Faculty Reading
FILLING
1:00pm •
The Word Works
FILLING
Old Town Hall, 2nd floor
1:30pm •
MASTER CLASS WITH LLOYD SCHWARTZ: Experimenting with Form
LIMITED
PEM Connect BLDG
10:15am •
Building an Online Writing Community: Lessons from the Poetry Cleanse
FILLING
11:30am •
Writing While Sober
FILLING
1:00pm •
To the Bone: Poems of Work and Manual Labor
FILLING
PEM Create Spaces
10:15am •
The Poet, The Artist, The Printer: Book Arts and the Small Press
FILLING
11:30am •
Poetry From The Heart: Writing Poems as a Means to Heal in the Era of Trump
FILLING
1:00pm •
Lesser Heard Voices East and West: Poetry in Translation
LIMITED
PEM Morse Auditorium
11:30am •
The Edna Project
LIMITED
1:00pm •
Reading with Martha Collins, Joan Houlihan, and Ellen Dore Watson
LIMITED
2:30pm •
The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy
LIMITED
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
10:15am •
"all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day—": Emily Dickinson and the botanical world
FILLING
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New Liberty Charter School, Room 1
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New Liberty Charter School, Room 3
Old Town Hall, 2nd floor
Pedestrian Walkway
PEM Atrium
PEM Connect BLDG
PEM Create Spaces
PEM Morse Auditorium
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 2
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass Room
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
The Bridge at 211
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Venues
Adriatic Restaurant and Bar
Hawthorne Hotel, Essex Room
Hawthorne Hotel, Library Room
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
New Liberty Charter School, Room 1
New Liberty Charter School, Room 2
New Liberty Charter School, Room 3
Old Town Hall, 2nd floor
Pedestrian Walkway
PEM Atrium
PEM Connect BLDG
PEM Create Spaces
PEM Morse Auditorium
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 2
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass Room
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
The Bridge at 211
