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Friday
, April 29
Hawthorne Essex
1:15pm •
Volta-cize your Turn!
FULL
Hawthorne Library
1:15pm •
Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand: Poetry and Science Fiction
3:45pm •
Creating collaborative spaces: Tips from the Tin Box for critique circle success
Hawthorne Pickman
1:15pm •
"What You Have Heard is True": Teaching Poems of Witness in the High School Classroom
FILLING
2:30pm •
The Bravest Women in the World: Afghan Women Speak Out Through Poetry
3:45pm •
North of Boston: Poetry from the Granite State
Howling Wolf Taquera
3:30pm •
Poetry Meet-up at Howling Wolf
Old Town Hall 2nd Fl
1:15pm •
College Slammers
2:30pm •
voices: (implicit) and EXPLICIT!
3:45pm •
Bone by Bone: Rewriting the Body
PEM Atrium
7:30pm •
Sandra Beasley, Martha Collins, and Ocean Vuong
FILLING
Salem Five Community Room
1:15pm •
Perspectives on the Short Poem
2:30pm •
Gail Mazur and Joyce Peseroff: New Books from Common Threads Poets
3:45pm •
Received and In-Progress: Demystifying Submissions and the Publication Process
Sea Level Oyster Bar
9:45pm •
Mortified
Saturday
, April 30
Armory Park
11:00am •
Poetry Circus
Bambolina Restaurant
9:45pm •
Boston Slam
FULL
Charter School 1
11:00am •
A License to Steal
FULL
2:00pm •
To Refract the Complexity of Our Lives, Write American Ghazals
FILLING
Charter School 2
11:00am •
Place/Displace: Poems of Home and Exile
2:00pm •
Master/Mistress/Mystery: The Poetry of Gender Nonconformity
3:15pm •
Solstice Anthology Reading
Charter School 3
11:00am •
Presenting Poetry with a Personal Touch: Keepsake Books to Make and Share
FULL
2:00pm •
Brown Bag Poetry: Workshop with Emily Jaeger
FULL
Charter School 4
12:15pm •
The Full Catastrophe: Poets on Motherhood
2:00pm •
Grub Street Poetry Generator
FULL
3:15pm •
Cycles and Series: Identifying Themes and Threads in Your Work
FULL
Hawthorne Essex
9:30am •
Everyone Loves Some One's Repeating: Using Repetition To Make A Poem
FULL
11:00am •
Over the Border: Three Vermont Poets
12:15pm •
Cape Cod Poetry Review: A Reading and Discussion of Lit Journals on a Shoestring
2:00pm •
What the World is Saying: Contemporary Poets in Translation
Hawthorne Library
9:30am •
'She was come back to her early sea-town home:' Sylvia Plath & the North Shore
FILLING
11:00am •
All That You Touch You Change: Mother Poets Read Poems About Change
12:15pm •
Verse and Diverse Walk Into a Bar: A Conversation With Solstice’s Editors on Varied Voices
2:00pm •
Populating our Poems: A reading of Persona Poems and Poems of Place
3:15pm •
Writing/Teaching/Living: Four Perspectives on Making a Life with Poetry
Hawthorne Pickman
9:30am •
Embodied Creativity: Writing with the Self as Witness
FULL
11:00am •
Firmament of Waters: The Sea as Subject
FILLING
12:15pm •
Seriously Funny: A Workshop on Humor in Poetry
FULL
3:15pm •
Warrior Writers Poetry Reading
Old Town Hall 1st Fl
12:15pm •
Metaphor Unmoored: A Participatory Exhibition Inspired by the Fan Collages of Poet Alice Notley
FULL
Old Town Hall 2nd Fl
11:00am •
Legal Issues for Poets and Publishers
2:00pm •
Women Poets of Tupelo Press
3:15pm •
Off the Beaten Path: Poetry in the Hinterlands
Pedestrian Walkway outside of the PEM
11:00am •
Small Press and Literary Fair
PEM Atrium
10:00am •
Random Acts of Poetry
PEM Bartlett Gallery
11:00am •
Poetry, Memory, and Salvaging: A Kundiman Reading
12:15pm •
Cave Canem Fellows
2:00pm •
Poets at the Bar
3:15pm •
The Prose Poem
FILLING
PEM East India Marine Hall
11:00am •
This is a Mighty Room: Poetry Written in Emily Dickinson's Bedroom
12:15pm •
Small Press, Big Love: Publishing Poetry Collections with Independent Presses
2:00pm •
UMass Poets: Sandra Lim, Maggie Dietz, and Jill McDonough
3:15pm •
The World in a Grain of Sand: Incorporating Scale in Poetry and Art
PEM Morse Auditorium
11:00am •
Ada Limon and Gregory Pardlo - Headline Event
FULL
12:15pm •
Charles Simic, David Rivard, Laurin Becker Macios
FULL
2:00pm •
Edward Hirsch - Saturday Headline Event
FULL
3:15pm •
State of Poetry
LIMITED
The Bridge at 211
11:00am •
Poetry and Religion
12:15pm •
Outlaw Poets: Sibling Rivalry Press Reading
2:00pm •
LOL: Poetry That’s Funny, A Reading by Jamaica Pond Poets with Open Mike
3:15pm •
Mark Doty: Speaking in Tongues - Headline Event
7:30pm •
Mark Doty and Marie Howe
FILLING
Village Tavern
11:00am •
Witch City Poetry Slam Showcase
Sunday
, May 1
Hawthorne Library
10:15am •
Working Class Poetics
11:30am •
Writing for Social Change and Writing to Bear Witness
1:00pm •
“A Language for the Unknown”: The Interplay of Poetry and Science
Hawthorne Pickman
10:15am •
Recovering the Poetry of Harriet Beecher Stowe
11:30am •
Bengali Poetry Reading
1:00pm •
A World Of Voices from White Pine Press
Old Town Hall 2nd Fl
10:15am •
Reading for Salamander Magazine
11:30am •
How Did I Get Here? MA Book Awards Winners Tell All
11:30am •
North of the Border: Canadian Women Poets Speak Out
1:00pm •
Greetings from the Happy Valley
PEM Atrium
11:00am •
Collaborations with Chance, the Art of Dada poetry
PEM Bartlett Gallery
11:00am •
Common Threads
PEM Create Space 1
10:15am •
Us and Them: Poets Read Original Works and New Translations
11:30am •
Youth Poetry: Publishing and Performance
PEM Create Space 2
10:15am •
Write Poetry with a Natural Poet - A Workshop for Children and Parents
LIMITED
11:30am •
Writing Truth and Beauty: Using Your Photos for Poetic Inspiration
FULL
PEM East India Marine Hall
10:15am •
Edward Hirsch - Sunday Headline Event
FILLING
11:30am •
Marie Howe- Headline Event
FILLING
1:00pm •
A Many Sided Reality: The Poetic Sequence and the Book-Length Poem
PEM Morse Auditorium
11:30am •
Boston Typewriter Orchestra
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Pedestrian Walkway outside of the PEM
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