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The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2016

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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