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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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Hawthorne Essex
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Old Town Hall 1st Fl
Old Town Hall 2nd Fl
Pedestrian Walkway outside of the PEM
PEM Atrium
PEM Bartlett Gallery
PEM Create Space 1
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PEM East India Marine Hall
PEM Morse Auditorium
Salem Five Community Room
Sea Level Oyster Bar
The Bridge at 211
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Armory Park
Bambolina Restaurant
Charter School 1
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Hawthorne Essex
Hawthorne Library
Hawthorne Pickman
Howling Wolf Taquera
Old Town Hall 1st Fl
Old Town Hall 2nd Fl
Pedestrian Walkway outside of the PEM
PEM Atrium
PEM Bartlett Gallery
PEM Create Space 1
PEM Create Space 2
PEM East India Marine Hall
PEM Morse Auditorium
Salem Five Community Room
Sea Level Oyster Bar
The Bridge at 211
Village Tavern
