The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2016

Laurin Becker Macios was born in Miami, Florida and has called many places home — including Florida, Germany, North Carolina, Colorado, Holland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. Somewhere to Go, her debut full-length book, won the 19th annual poetry award from Elixir... Read More →

David Rivard was born in 1953 in Fall River, Massachusetts, and is the author of five books of poetry: Otherwise Elsewhere, Sugartown, Bewitched Playground, Wise Poison, winner of the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and a finalist for the Los Angeles... Read More →

Charles Simic is the author of numerous collections of poems, among them, The Lunatic, Master of Disguises; Selected Poems: 1963-2003, for which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize; The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems, for which he received the Pulitzer... Read More →