The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2016 has ended

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The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2016

1:15pm EDT

Perspectives on the Short Poem Salem Five Community Room College Slammers Old Town Hall 2nd Fl Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand: Poetry and Science Fiction Hawthorne Library "What You Have Heard is True": Teaching Poems of Witness in the High School ClassroomFILLING Hawthorne Pickman Volta-cize your Turn!FULL Hawthorne Essex

2:30pm EDT

Gail Mazur and Joyce Peseroff: New Books from Common Threads Poets Salem Five Community Room The Bravest Women in the World: Afghan Women Speak Out Through Poetry Hawthorne Pickman voices: (implicit) and EXPLICIT! Old Town Hall 2nd Fl

3:30pm EDT

Poetry Meet-up at Howling Wolf Howling Wolf Taquera

3:45pm EDT

North of Boston: Poetry from the Granite State Hawthorne Pickman Bone by Bone: Rewriting the Body Old Town Hall 2nd Fl Received and In-Progress: Demystifying Submissions and the Publication Process Salem Five Community Room Creating collaborative spaces: Tips from the Tin Box for critique circle success Hawthorne Library

7:30pm EDT

Sandra Beasley, Martha Collins, and Ocean VuongFILLING PEM Atrium

9:45pm EDT

Mortified Sea Level Oyster Bar

9:30am EDT

'She was come back to her early sea-town home:' Sylvia Plath & the North ShoreFILLING Hawthorne Library Embodied Creativity: Writing with the Self as WitnessFULL Hawthorne Pickman Everyone Loves Some One's Repeating: Using Repetition To Make A PoemFULL Hawthorne Essex

10:00am EDT

Random Acts of Poetry PEM Atrium

11:00am EDT

All That You Touch You Change: Mother Poets Read Poems About Change Hawthorne Library Over the Border: Three Vermont Poets Hawthorne Essex Poetry and Religion The Bridge at 211 Poetry, Memory, and Salvaging: A Kundiman Reading PEM Bartlett Gallery This is a Mighty Room: Poetry Written in Emily Dickinson's Bedroom PEM East India Marine Hall Ada Limon and Gregory Pardlo - Headline EventFULL PEM Morse Auditorium Legal Issues for Poets and Publishers Old Town Hall 2nd Fl Place/Displace: Poems of Home and Exile Charter School 2 A License to StealFULL Charter School 1 Firmament of Waters: The Sea as SubjectFILLING Hawthorne Pickman Presenting Poetry with a Personal Touch: Keepsake Books to Make and ShareFULL Charter School 3 Witch City Poetry Slam Showcase Village Tavern Poetry Circus Armory Park Small Press and Literary Fair Pedestrian Walkway outside of the PEM

12:15pm EDT

Cave Canem Fellows PEM Bartlett Gallery Outlaw Poets: Sibling Rivalry Press Reading The Bridge at 211 Cape Cod Poetry Review: A Reading and Discussion of Lit Journals on a Shoestring Hawthorne Essex Charles Simic, David Rivard, Laurin Becker MaciosFULL PEM Morse Auditorium Small Press, Big Love: Publishing Poetry Collections with Independent Presses PEM East India Marine Hall The Full Catastrophe: Poets on Motherhood Charter School 4 Verse and Diverse Walk Into a Bar: A Conversation With Solstice’s Editors on Varied Voices Hawthorne Library Metaphor Unmoored: A Participatory Exhibition Inspired by the Fan Collages of Poet Alice NotleyFULL Old Town Hall 1st Fl Seriously Funny: A Workshop on Humor in PoetryFULL Hawthorne Pickman

2:00pm EDT

LOL: Poetry That’s Funny, A Reading by Jamaica Pond Poets with Open Mike The Bridge at 211 Poets at the Bar PEM Bartlett Gallery Populating our Poems: A reading of Persona Poems and Poems of Place Hawthorne Library UMass Poets: Sandra Lim, Maggie Dietz, and Jill McDonough PEM East India Marine Hall What the World is Saying: Contemporary Poets in Translation Hawthorne Essex Women Poets of Tupelo Press Old Town Hall 2nd Fl Edward Hirsch - Saturday Headline EventFULL PEM Morse Auditorium Master/Mistress/Mystery: The Poetry of Gender Nonconformity Charter School 2 Brown Bag Poetry: Workshop with Emily JaegerFULL Charter School 3 Grub Street Poetry GeneratorFULL Charter School 4 To Refract the Complexity of Our Lives, Write American GhazalsFILLING Charter School 1

3:15pm EDT

Solstice Anthology Reading Charter School 2 Warrior Writers Poetry Reading Hawthorne Pickman Writing/Teaching/Living: Four Perspectives on Making a Life with Poetry Hawthorne Library Mark Doty: Speaking in Tongues - Headline Event The Bridge at 211 Off the Beaten Path: Poetry in the Hinterlands Old Town Hall 2nd Fl Cycles and Series: Identifying Themes and Threads in Your WorkFULL Charter School 4 The Prose PoemFILLING PEM Bartlett Gallery The World in a Grain of Sand: Incorporating Scale in Poetry and Art PEM East India Marine Hall State of PoetryLIMITED PEM Morse Auditorium

7:30pm EDT

Mark Doty and Marie HoweFILLING The Bridge at 211

9:45pm EDT

Boston SlamFULL Bambolina Restaurant

10:15am EDT

Reading for Salamander Magazine Old Town Hall 2nd Fl Us and Them: Poets Read Original Works and New Translations PEM Create Space 1 Working Class Poetics Hawthorne Library Edward Hirsch - Sunday Headline EventFILLING PEM East India Marine Hall Recovering the Poetry of Harriet Beecher Stowe Hawthorne Pickman Write Poetry with a Natural Poet - A Workshop for Children and ParentsLIMITED PEM Create Space 2

11:00am EDT

Common Threads PEM Bartlett Gallery Collaborations with Chance, the Art of Dada poetry PEM Atrium

11:30am EDT

Bengali Poetry Reading Hawthorne Pickman How Did I Get Here? MA Book Awards Winners Tell All Old Town Hall 2nd Fl North of the Border: Canadian Women Poets Speak Out Old Town Hall 2nd Fl Youth Poetry: Publishing and Performance PEM Create Space 1 Marie Howe- Headline EventFILLING PEM East India Marine Hall Boston Typewriter Orchestra PEM Morse Auditorium Writing for Social Change and Writing to Bear Witness Hawthorne Library Writing Truth and Beauty: Using Your Photos for Poetic InspirationFULL PEM Create Space 2

1:00pm EDT

A Many Sided Reality: The Poetic Sequence and the Book-Length Poem PEM East India Marine Hall A World Of Voices from White Pine Press Hawthorne Pickman Greetings from the Happy Valley Old Town Hall 2nd Fl “A Language for the Unknown”: The Interplay of Poetry and Science Hawthorne Library