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9:00am EDT

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

9:30am EDT

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

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 PoetryFULL Hawthorne Hotel Skylark Room Developing Book-Length Poetry Collections in an M.F.A. ProgramFILLING New Liberty Charter School Room 3 Metaphor in Poetry, a Life Vest in the Silence of Trauma Hawthorne Hotel Library Story Retold: Women Retelling HistoryFILLING PEM Create Space 2 Responding to Loss in the Natural World: An Ecopoetry WorkshopFULL New Liberty Charter School Room 1 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 CommunityFULL PEM Create Space 2 “The Word Doesn’t Mean Anything”: Crafting the Confessional and BeyondFILLING PEM Create Space 1 Riprap Rocks New Liberty Charter School Room 2 How I Learned to be a Better Writer by Becoming EditorFILLING Hawthorne Hotel Skylark Room The Anti-Workshop: Using A “No Pressure” Community and Automatic Writing to Create Great DraftsFULL New Liberty Charter School Room 3

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 PoetryFULL Hawthorne Hotel Skylark Room Massachusetts Cultural Council 2016 Fellowship Awardees Connect PEM Out There and In Here: Mysteries of the Ekphrastic PoemFULL PEM Create Space 2 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 PoetryFILLING PEM Create Space 1 Headline Event: Kazim Ali and Rigoberto González PEM Morse Auditorium It’s Not About You—Writing the Persona Poem WorkshopFULL New Liberty Charter School Room 3 On the Golden Shovel: Writing the 21st Century SonnetFILLING Old Town Hall Second Floor Queer & Kindred: Opening the Doors to Identity Through PoetryFILLING New Liberty Charter School Room 1

3:15pm EDT

How Do I Write a Swatantra Sonnet PEM Create Space 2 Lowell Calling!FILLING New Liberty Charter School Room 3 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 PoetryFULL PEM Create Space 1 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 BordelloFILLING Hawthorne Hotel Library