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Saturday, May 6
 

9:00am EDT

Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration Old Town Hall Second Floor

9:30am EDT

New Voices of Tupelo Press Hawthorne Hotel Sofia'sFILLING WordTech Poets -- from Massachusetts! Old Town Hall Second Floor Doughnuts and Death: A Baker's Dozen of Emily Dickinson's Most Depressing Poems Hawthorne Hotel LibraryFILLING

10:30am EDT

Just Spring: A Site-Specific Installation PEM

11:00am EDT

Called By the Muse After Forty: Four Poets from In and Around Boston The Bridge at 211 Poets on Motherhood Old Town Hall Second Floor Three from Maine: A Reading by Christian Barter, Betsy Sholl, and Jeffrey Thomson Hawthorne Hotel Sofia's Headline Reading: Andrea Cohen and Tom Sleigh PEM Morse Auditorium Channeling the Witches: Giving Voice to Historical Figures Through Poetry Hawthorne Hotel Skylark RoomFULL Developing Book-Length Poetry Collections in an M.F.A. Program New Liberty Charter School Room 3FILLING Metaphor in Poetry, a Life Vest in the Silence of Trauma Hawthorne Hotel Library Story Retold: Women Retelling History PEM Create Space 2FILLING Responding to Loss in the Natural World: An Ecopoetry Workshop New Liberty Charter School Room 1FULL Small Press and Literary Fair Pedestrian Walkway outside of the PEM

12:00pm EDT

Poems to Order PEM Atrium

12:15pm EDT

A Four Way Books Poetry Reading with Rebecca Okrent, Christina Pugh, and Cammy Thomas The Bridge at 211 A Rising Role: Connecticut Poets Laureate Connect PEM New England Poets Laureate Read & Converse Hawthorne Hotel Sofia's Not Without Laughter Hawthorne Hotel Library Superfund City: PCBs, poetry, and the native narratives of Massachusetts' former industrial centers Old Town Hall Second Floor Headline Event: Cornelius Eady and Rough Magic PEM Morse Auditorium Poetry and Community PEM Create Space 2FULL “The Word Doesn’t Mean Anything”: Crafting the Confessional and Beyond PEM Create Space 1FILLING Riprap Rocks New Liberty Charter School Room 2 How I Learned to be a Better Writer by Becoming Editor Hawthorne Hotel Skylark RoomFILLING The Anti-Workshop: Using A “No Pressure” Community and Automatic Writing to Create Great Drafts New Liberty Charter School Room 3FULL

2:00pm EDT

Anhinga Press Reading with Kelle Groom, Anna Ross, Elizabeth Powell, and Robin Beth Schaer The Bridge at 211 Building Bridges between Physics and Poetry Hawthorne Hotel Skylark RoomFULL Massachusetts Cultural Council 2016 Fellowship Awardees Connect PEM Out There and In Here: Mysteries of the Ekphrastic Poem PEM Create Space 2FULL Poetry in Translation Hawthorne Hotel Sofia's Reading and Q&A with Poets and Editors Ryan Murphy and Martha Rhodes Hawthorne Hotel Library The Un-Real Mother: Character Development within Maternal Poetry PEM Create Space 1FILLING Headline Event: Kazim Ali and Rigoberto González PEM Morse Auditorium It’s Not About You—Writing the Persona Poem Workshop New Liberty Charter School Room 3FULL On the Golden Shovel: Writing the 21st Century Sonnet Old Town Hall Second FloorFILLING Queer & Kindred: Opening the Doors to Identity Through Poetry New Liberty Charter School Room 1FILLING

3:15pm EDT

How Do I Write a Swatantra Sonnet PEM Create Space 2 Lowell Calling! New Liberty Charter School Room 3FILLING Our Miss Brooks 100: The Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Old Town Hall Second Floor Poetry and Literary Citizenship Hawthorne Hotel Skylark Room Poetry as Invocation Connect PEM Vermont Poets Who Have Enlarged the Poetry Communities Around Them Hawthorne Hotel Library Writing What We See: Poets of Witness, Emerging and Established The Bridge at 211 Blackout Poetry PEM Create Space 1FULL The State of Poetry PEM Morse Auditorium

7:30pm EDT

Headline Event: Eileen Myles The Bridge at 211

9:30pm EDT

Elle Villanelle's Poetry Bordello Hawthorne Hotel LibraryFILLING