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Thursday
, May 4
Old Town Hall
9:00am •
Chalk It Up to Poetry!
Salem Athenaeum
8:00pm •
A Celebration of the Salem Poetry Seminar
Friday
, May 5
Adriatic Restaurant and Bar
3:30pm •
Poetry Meet-up - New Location!
Hawthorne Hotel Essex Room
2:30pm •
Obsessions: Using Form to Tame the Wild Beast in Poetry
3:45pm •
Gratitude and Grief A Generative Poetry Workshop: For Caregivers Past & Present
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel Library
1:15pm •
Poetry and the Public Sphere
2:30pm •
Headline Reading - Dara Wier and Emily Pettit
3:45pm •
Factory Hollow Press and jubilat Make Chapbooks
9:30pm •
College Slammers
Hawthorne Hotel Pickman Room
1:15pm •
Your Pictures as Poetry - Writing From Your Photo Stream
FILLING
Old Town Hall Second Floor
1:15pm •
Post Rock Poetry
2:30pm •
Shakespeare To Hip Hop Presents: The Shakespeare Speakeasy
PEM Atrium
7:30pm •
Headline Reading - Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
PEM Morse Auditorium
5:30pm •
Unburying Malcolm Miller
Saturday
, May 6
Connect PEM
12:15pm •
A Rising Role: Connecticut Poets Laureate
2:00pm •
Massachusetts Cultural Council 2016 Fellowship Awardees
3:15pm •
Poetry as Invocation
Hawthorne Hotel Library
9:30am •
Doughnuts and Death: A Baker's Dozen of Emily Dickinson's Most Depressing Poems
FILLING
11:00am •
Metaphor in Poetry, a Life Vest in the Silence of Trauma
12:15pm •
Not Without Laughter
2:00pm •
Reading and Q&A with Poets and Editors Ryan Murphy and Martha Rhodes
3:15pm •
Vermont Poets Who Have Enlarged the Poetry Communities Around Them
9:30pm •
Elle Villanelle's Poetry Bordello
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel Skylark Room
11:00am •
Channeling the Witches: Giving Voice to Historical Figures Through Poetry
FULL
12:15pm •
How I Learned to be a Better Writer by Becoming Editor
FILLING
2:00pm •
Building Bridges between Physics and Poetry
FULL
3:15pm •
Poetry and Literary Citizenship
Hawthorne Hotel Sofia's
9:30am •
New Voices of Tupelo Press
FILLING
11:00am •
Three from Maine: A Reading by Christian Barter, Betsy Sholl, and Jeffrey Thomson
12:15pm •
New England Poets Laureate Read & Converse
2:00pm •
Poetry in Translation
New Liberty Charter School Room 1
11:00am •
Responding to Loss in the Natural World: An Ecopoetry Workshop
FULL
2:00pm •
Queer & Kindred: Opening the Doors to Identity Through Poetry
FILLING
New Liberty Charter School Room 2
12:15pm •
Riprap Rocks
New Liberty Charter School Room 3
11:00am •
Developing Book-Length Poetry Collections in an M.F.A. Program
FILLING
12:15pm •
The Anti-Workshop: Using A “No Pressure” Community and Automatic Writing to Create Great Drafts
FULL
2:00pm •
It’s Not About You—Writing the Persona Poem Workshop
FULL
3:15pm •
Lowell Calling!
FILLING
Old Town Hall Second Floor
9:00am •
Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration
9:30am •
WordTech Poets -- from Massachusetts!
11:00am •
Poets on Motherhood
12:15pm •
Superfund City: PCBs, poetry, and the native narratives of Massachusetts' former industrial centers
2:00pm •
On the Golden Shovel: Writing the 21st Century Sonnet
FILLING
3:15pm •
Our Miss Brooks 100: The Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial
Pedestrian Walkway outside of the PEM
11:00am •
Small Press and Literary Fair
PEM
10:30am •
Just Spring: A Site-Specific Installation
PEM Atrium
12:00pm •
Poems to Order
PEM Create Space 1
12:15pm •
“The Word Doesn’t Mean Anything”: Crafting the Confessional and Beyond
FILLING
2:00pm •
The Un-Real Mother: Character Development within Maternal Poetry
FILLING
3:15pm •
Blackout Poetry
FULL
PEM Create Space 2
11:00am •
Story Retold: Women Retelling History
FILLING
12:15pm •
Poetry and Community
FULL
2:00pm •
Out There and In Here: Mysteries of the Ekphrastic Poem
FULL
3:15pm •
How Do I Write a Swatantra Sonnet
PEM Morse Auditorium
11:00am •
Headline Reading: Andrea Cohen and Tom Sleigh
12:15pm •
Headline Event: Cornelius Eady and Rough Magic
2:00pm •
Headline Event: Kazim Ali and Rigoberto González
3:15pm •
The State of Poetry
The Bridge at 211
11:00am •
Called By the Muse After Forty: Four Poets from In and Around Boston
12:15pm •
A Four Way Books Poetry Reading with Rebecca Okrent, Christina Pugh, and Cammy Thomas
2:00pm •
Anhinga Press Reading with Kelle Groom, Anna Ross, Elizabeth Powell, and Robin Beth Schaer
3:15pm •
Writing What We See: Poets of Witness, Emerging and Established
7:30pm •
Headline Event: Eileen Myles
Sunday
, May 7
Connect PEM
10:15am •
Arrows Dipped in Honey:How Poetry Hurts a Wounded World Into Healing
11:30am •
The Trauma of the Body
1:00pm •
Emotionality: Harness or Whip?
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel Library
9:00am •
Poetry and Healing
10:15am •
Master Class in Reading Your Work Aloud
11:30am •
Motherhood and The Muse: Poets on Passion and Parenting
1:00pm •
A Life in Retrospect: History Comes Calling
Hawthorne Hotel Pickman Room
10:15am •
To Refract the Complexity of Our Lives, Write American Ghazals
FILLING
11:30am •
Mixing Media: Words, Image, and Music
FULL
Old Town Hall Second Floor
10:15am •
What's Your Literary Lineage?
11:30am •
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
1:00pm •
The Geography of Grief: Poets and Poems of Loss
PEM Create Space 1
10:15am •
The Family Business: A Father and Daughter Talk Ecopoetics, Triggering Towns, and Midwest vs. Coasts
11:30am •
Naming Our Roots: Seeds for Multilingual, Multicultural Narrative Poems
FULL
1:00pm •
The Kenyon Review & Memorious.org: The New to Massachusetts Poetry Reading
PEM Create Space 2
10:15am •
On Beyond Giggles: Writing Children's Poetry
11:30am •
Solarpunk Serenades
FILLING
1:00pm •
History's Inspiration: Poetry Out of the Past
FULL
PEM Morse Auditorium
10:15am •
Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival Spring Matinee
11:30am •
Liberation
1:00pm •
Fred & Gail & Richard & Lloyd
2:30pm •
PSA 2016 NATIONAL SERIES: Poetry and the Natural World with Louise Glück
FULL
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May 4
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7, 2017
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, May 6
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Adriatic Restaurant and Bar
Connect PEM
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New Liberty Charter School Room 3
Old Town Hall
Old Town Hall Second Floor
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Thursday
, May 4
Friday
, May 5
Saturday
, May 6
Sunday
, May 7
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Adriatic Restaurant and Bar
Connect PEM
Hawthorne Hotel Essex Room
Hawthorne Hotel Library
Hawthorne Hotel Pickman Room
Hawthorne Hotel Skylark Room
Hawthorne Hotel Sofia's
New Liberty Charter School Room 1
New Liberty Charter School Room 2
New Liberty Charter School Room 3
Old Town Hall
Old Town Hall Second Floor
Pedestrian Walkway outside of the PEM
PEM
PEM Atrium
PEM Create Space 1
PEM Create Space 2
PEM Morse Auditorium
Salem Athenaeum
The Bridge at 211
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