The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017

What sort of poetry comes from the pollution and the grandeur, the run-down streets, the ruins of cultural landmarks, and the weedy life growing (sometimes thriving, others just barely existing) in the constantly reimagined remains of Massachusetts' industrial cities? These places, scattered from southeastern shores to western Mass's inland waterways, have shaped the imaginations of so many of the state's poets, each of whom comes out of their experience with these places with. Michael, Adam, and Rushelle will read from their own very personal works which, like the cities themselves, are a conglomeration of light and dark, beautiful and terrifying, hilarious, heartbreaking, and unflinchingly human.