The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017 has ended

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The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017

Mary Rose Dwyer

1:15pm EDT

Poetry and the Public Sphere Hawthorne Hotel Library

Your Pictures as Poetry - Writing From Your Photo Stream Hawthorne Hotel Pickman RoomFILLING

2:30pm EDT

Obsessions: Using Form to Tame the Wild Beast in Poetry Hawthorne Hotel Essex Room Headline Reading - Dara Wier and Emily Pettit Hawthorne Hotel Library

3:30pm EDT

Poetry Meet-up - New Location! Adriatic Restaurant and Bar

3:45pm EDT

Factory Hollow Press and jubilat Make Chapbooks Hawthorne Hotel Library Gratitude and Grief A Generative Poetry Workshop: For Caregivers Past & Present Hawthorne Hotel Essex RoomFILLING

5:30pm EDT

Unburying Malcolm Miller PEM Morse Auditorium

7:30pm EDT

Headline Reading - Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil PEM Atrium

9:30pm EDT

College Slammers Hawthorne Hotel Library

9:30am EDT

New Voices of Tupelo Press Hawthorne Hotel Sofia'sFILLING Doughnuts and Death: A Baker's Dozen of Emily Dickinson's Most Depressing Poems Hawthorne Hotel LibraryFILLING

11:00am EDT

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 Responding to Loss in the Natural World: An Ecopoetry Workshop New Liberty Charter School Room 1FULL

12:15pm EDT

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 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

Building Bridges between Physics and Poetry Hawthorne Hotel Skylark RoomFULL Out There and In Here: Mysteries of the Ekphrastic Poem PEM Create Space 2FULL 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

3:15pm EDT

Poetry and Literary Citizenship Hawthorne Hotel Skylark Room Poetry as Invocation Connect PEM The State of Poetry PEM Morse Auditorium Writing What We See: Poets of Witness, Emerging and Established The Bridge at 211

7:30pm EDT

Headline Event: Eileen Myles The Bridge at 211

9:30pm EDT

Elle Villanelle's Poetry Bordello Hawthorne Hotel LibraryFILLING

10:15am EDT

What's Your Literary Lineage? Old Town Hall Second Floor Master Class in Reading Your Work Aloud Hawthorne Hotel Library To Refract the Complexity of Our Lives, Write American Ghazals Hawthorne Hotel Pickman RoomFILLING

11:30am EDT

Liberation PEM Morse Auditorium Mixing Media: Words, Image, and Music Hawthorne Hotel Pickman RoomFULL Naming Our Roots: Seeds for Multilingual, Multicultural Narrative Poems PEM Create Space 1FULL Solarpunk Serenades PEM Create Space 2FILLING

1:00pm EDT

A Life in Retrospect: History Comes Calling Hawthorne Hotel Library Emotionality: Harness or Whip? Connect PEMFULL

2:30pm EDT

PSA 2016 NATIONAL SERIES: Poetry and the Natural World with Louise Glück PEM Morse AuditoriumFULL