The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2016

Laurin Becker Macios was born in Miami, Florida and raised just short of everywhere (Florida, Germany, North Carolina, Colorado, and Holland). She earned her MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of New Hampshire and is Programs Associate of Poetry Society of America, after nearly three years as Program Director of Mass Poetry. Her work has appeared in Third Wednesday, Salamander, [PANK], Boxcar Poetry Review, The Pinch, and... 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 Times Book Award, and Torque, winner of the 1987 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. His poems and essays appear in the American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly... 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 Prize for Poetry;Classic Ballroom Dances, which won the University of Chicago’s Harriet Monroe Award and the Poetry Society of... Read More →