The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017: Grid

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Old Town Hall	Salem Athenaeum

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Chalk It Up to Poetry! 9:00am - 9:30am

A Celebration of the Salem Poetry Seminar 8:00pm - 11:00pm

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Poetry Meet-up - New Location! 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Obsessions: Using Form to Tame the Wild Beast in Poetry 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Gratitude and Grief A Generative Poetry Workshop: For Caregivers... 3:45pm - 4:45pm

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Poetry and the Public Sphere 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Headline Reading - Dara Wier and Emily Pettit 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Factory Hollow Press and jubilat Make Chapbooks 3:45pm - 4:45pm

College Slammers 9:30pm - 11:00pm

Your Pictures as Poetry - Writing From Your Photo Stream 1:15pm - 2:15pm

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Post Rock Poetry 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Shakespeare To Hip Hop Presents: The Shakespeare Speakeasy 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Headline Reading - Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Unburying Malcolm Miller 5:30pm - 7:00pm

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A Rising Role: Connecticut Poets Laureate 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Massachusetts Cultural Council 2016 Fellowship Awardees 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Poetry as Invocation 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Doughnuts and Death: A Baker's Dozen of Emily Dickinson's Most D... 9:30am - 10:30am

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Metaphor in Poetry, a Life Vest in the Silence of Trauma 11:00am - 12:00pm

Not Without Laughter 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Reading and Q&A with Poets and Editors Ryan Murphy and Martha Rh... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Vermont Poets Who Have Enlarged the Poetry Communities Around Th... 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Elle Villanelle's Poetry Bordello 9:30pm - 11:00pm

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Channeling the Witches: Giving Voice to Historical Figures Throu... 11:00am - 12:00pm

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How I Learned to be a Better Writer by Becoming Editor 12:15pm - 1:15pm

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Building Bridges between Physics and Poetry 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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Poetry and Literary Citizenship 3:15pm - 4:15pm

New Voices of Tupelo Press 9:30am - 10:30am

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Three from Maine: A Reading by Christian Barter, Betsy Sholl, an... 11:00am - 12:00pm

New England Poets Laureate Read & Converse 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Poetry in Translation 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Responding to Loss in the Natural World: An Ecopoetry Workshop 11:00am - 12:00pm

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Queer & Kindred: Opening the Doors to Identity Through Poetry 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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Riprap Rocks 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Developing Book-Length Poetry Collections in an M.F.A. Program 11:00am - 12:00pm

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The Anti-Workshop: Using A “No Pressure” Community and Automatic... 12:15pm - 1:15pm

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It’s Not About You—Writing the Persona Poem Workshop 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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Lowell Calling! 3:15pm - 4:15pm

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Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration 9:00am - 9:00pm

WordTech Poets -- from Massachusetts! 9:30am - 10:30am

Poets on Motherhood 11:00am - 12:00pm

Superfund City: PCBs, poetry, and the native narratives of Massa... 12:15pm - 1:15pm

On the Golden Shovel: Writing the 21st Century Sonnet 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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Our Miss Brooks 100: The Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Small Press and Literary Fair 11:00am - 5:00pm

Just Spring: A Site-Specific Installation 10:30am - 2:00pm

Poems to Order 12:00pm - 2:00pm

“The Word Doesn’t Mean Anything”: Crafting the Confessional and... 12:15pm - 1:15pm

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The Un-Real Mother: Character Development within Maternal Poetry 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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Blackout Poetry 3:15pm - 4:15pm

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Story Retold: Women Retelling History 11:00am - 12:00pm

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Poetry and Community 12:15pm - 1:15pm

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Out There and In Here: Mysteries of the Ekphrastic Poem 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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How Do I Write a Swatantra Sonnet 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Headline Reading: Andrea Cohen and Tom Sleigh 11:00am - 12:00pm

Headline Event: Cornelius Eady and Rough Magic 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Headline Event: Kazim Ali and Rigoberto González 2:00pm - 3:00pm

The State of Poetry 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Called By the Muse After Forty: Four Poets from In and Around Bo... 11:00am - 12:00pm

A Four Way Books Poetry Reading with Rebecca Okrent, Christina P... 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Anhinga Press Reading with Kelle Groom, Anna Ross, Elizabeth Pow... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Writing What We See: Poets of Witness, Emerging and Established 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Headline Event: Eileen Myles 7:30pm - 9:00pm

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Arrows Dipped in Honey:How Poetry Hurts a Wounded World Into Hea... 10:15am - 11:15am

The Trauma of the Body 11:30am - 12:30pm

Emotionality: Harness or Whip? 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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Poetry and Healing 9:00am - 10:00am

Master Class in Reading Your Work Aloud 10:15am - 11:15am

Motherhood and The Muse: Poets on Passion and Parenting 11:30am - 12:30pm

A Life in Retrospect: History Comes Calling 1:00pm - 2:00pm

To Refract the Complexity of Our Lives, Write American Ghazals 10:15am - 11:15am

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Mixing Media: Words, Image, and Music 11:30am - 12:30pm

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What's Your Literary Lineage? 10:15am - 11:15am

A Reading in Support of the World Poetry Movement in Opposition... 11:30am - 12:30pm

The Geography of Grief: Poets and Poems of Loss 1:00pm - 2:00pm

The Family Business: A Father and Daughter Talk Ecopoetics, Trig... 10:15am - 11:15am

Naming Our Roots: Seeds for Multilingual, Multicultural Narrativ... 11:30am - 12:30pm

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The Kenyon Review & Memorious.org: The New to Massachusetts Poet... 1:00pm - 2:00pm

On Beyond Giggles: Writing Children's Poetry 10:15am - 11:15am

Solarpunk Serenades 11:30am - 12:30pm

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History's Inspiration: Poetry Out of the Past 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival Spring Matinee 10:15am - 11:15am

Liberation 11:30am - 12:30pm

Fred & Gail & Richard & Lloyd 1:00pm - 2:00pm

PSA 2016 NATIONAL SERIES: Poetry and the Natural World with Loui... 2:30pm - 3:30pm

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