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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's
FILLING
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 Library
FILLING
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 Room
FULL
Developing Book-Length Poetry Collections in an M.F.A. Program
New Liberty Charter School Room 3
FILLING
Metaphor in Poetry, a Life Vest in the Silence of Trauma
Hawthorne Hotel Library
Story Retold: Women Retelling History
PEM Create Space 2
FILLING
Responding to Loss in the Natural World: An Ecopoetry Workshop
New Liberty Charter School Room 1
FULL
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 2
FULL
“The Word Doesn’t Mean Anything”: Crafting the Confessional and Beyond
PEM Create Space 1
FILLING
Riprap Rocks
New Liberty Charter School Room 2
How I Learned to be a Better Writer by Becoming Editor
Hawthorne Hotel Skylark Room
FILLING
The Anti-Workshop: Using A “No Pressure” Community and Automatic Writing to Create Great Drafts
New Liberty Charter School Room 3
FULL
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 Room
FULL
Massachusetts Cultural Council 2016 Fellowship Awardees
Connect PEM
Out There and In Here: Mysteries of the Ekphrastic Poem
PEM Create Space 2
FULL
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 1
FILLING
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 3
FULL
On the Golden Shovel: Writing the 21st Century Sonnet
Old Town Hall Second Floor
FILLING
Queer & Kindred: Opening the Doors to Identity Through Poetry
New Liberty Charter School Room 1
FILLING
3:15pm EDT
How Do I Write a Swatantra Sonnet
PEM Create Space 2
Lowell Calling!
New Liberty Charter School Room 3
FILLING
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 1
FULL
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 Library
FILLING
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