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 StreamFILLING Hawthorne Hotel Pickman Room

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 & PresentFILLING Hawthorne Hotel Essex Room

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 PressFILLING Hawthorne Hotel Sofia's Doughnuts and Death: A Baker's Dozen of Emily Dickinson's Most Depressing PoemsFILLING Hawthorne Hotel Library

11:00am EDT

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

12:15pm EDT

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 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

Building Bridges between Physics and PoetryFULL Hawthorne Hotel Skylark Room Out There and In Here: Mysteries of the Ekphrastic PoemFULL PEM Create Space 2 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

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 BordelloFILLING Hawthorne Hotel Library

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 GhazalsFILLING Hawthorne Hotel Pickman Room

11:30am EDT

Liberation PEM Morse Auditorium Mixing Media: Words, Image, and MusicFULL Hawthorne Hotel Pickman Room Naming Our Roots: Seeds for Multilingual, Multicultural Narrative PoemsFULL PEM Create Space 1 Solarpunk SerenadesFILLING PEM Create Space 2

1:00pm EDT

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

2:30pm EDT

PSA 2016 NATIONAL SERIES: Poetry and the Natural World with Louise GlückFULL PEM Morse Auditorium