The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2016 has ended

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The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2016

Mary Rose Dwyer

1:15pm EDT

Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand: Poetry and Science Fiction Hawthorne Library

2:30pm EDT

The Bravest Women in the World: Afghan Women Speak Out Through Poetry Hawthorne Pickman

3:45pm EDT

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

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

10:00am EDT

Random Acts of Poetry PEM Atrium

11:00am EDT

Poetry, Memory, and Salvaging: A Kundiman Reading PEM Bartlett Gallery Ada Limon and Gregory Pardlo - Headline EventFULL PEM Morse Auditorium Place/Displace: Poems of Home and Exile Charter School 2 Small Press and Literary Fair Pedestrian Walkway outside of the PEM Firmament of Waters: The Sea as SubjectFILLING Hawthorne Pickman

12:15pm EDT

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 Metaphor Unmoored: A Participatory Exhibition Inspired by the Fan Collages of Poet Alice NotleyFULL Old Town Hall 1st Fl

2:00pm EDT

Populating our Poems: A reading of Persona Poems and Poems of Place Hawthorne Library What the World is Saying: Contemporary Poets in Translation Hawthorne Essex Master/Mistress/Mystery: The Poetry of Gender Nonconformity Charter School 2

3:15pm EDT

Writing/Teaching/Living: Four Perspectives on Making a Life with Poetry Hawthorne Library Mark Doty: Speaking in Tongues - Headline Event The Bridge at 211 State of PoetryLIMITED PEM Morse Auditorium The World in a Grain of Sand: Incorporating Scale in Poetry and Art PEM East India Marine Hall

7:30pm EDT

Mark Doty and Marie HoweFILLING The Bridge at 211

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

11:00am EDT

Collaborations with Chance, the Art of Dada poetry PEM Atrium

11:30am EDT

Bengali Poetry Reading Hawthorne Pickman Writing for Social Change and Writing to Bear Witness Hawthorne Library

1:00pm EDT

A Many Sided Reality: The Poetic Sequence and the Book-Length Poem PEM East India Marine Hall “A Language for the Unknown”: The Interplay of Poetry and Science Hawthorne Library