The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017 has ended

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The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017

8:00pm EDT

A Celebration of the Salem Poetry Seminar Salem Athenaeum

1:15pm EDT

Post Rock Poetry Old Town Hall Second Floor

2:30pm EDT

Obsessions: Using Form to Tame the Wild Beast in Poetry Hawthorne Hotel Essex Room

3:45pm EDT

Factory Hollow Press and jubilat Make Chapbooks Hawthorne Hotel Library

9:30pm EDT

College Slammers Hawthorne Hotel Library

9:30am EDT

New Voices of Tupelo PressFILLING Hawthorne Hotel Sofia's WordTech Poets -- from Massachusetts! Old Town Hall Second Floor

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

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

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

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

10:15am EDT

Arrows Dipped in Honey:How Poetry Hurts a Wounded World Into Healing Connect PEM

11:30am EDT

A Reading in Support of the World Poetry Movement in Opposition to the proliferation of Nuclear Arms and in support for World Wide Efforts at Peace Old Town Hall Second Floor Liberation PEM Morse Auditorium Mixing Media: Words, Image, and MusicFULL Hawthorne Hotel Pickman Room

1:00pm EDT

A Life in Retrospect: History Comes Calling Hawthorne Hotel Library History's Inspiration: Poetry Out of the PastFULL PEM Create Space 2 The Geography of Grief: Poets and Poems of Loss Old Town Hall Second Floor The Kenyon Review & Memorious.org: The New to Massachusetts Poetry Reading PEM Create Space 1