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Saturday
, May 31
Cinema Salem - Theater 1
10:15am •
The Informal Formal: A Craft Reading
11:30am •
“On Being Ill:” The Challenges, and Opportunities, of Writing Chronic Illness
12:45pm •
Poets in Conversation with Gender
2:00pm •
Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Reading Celebrating 22 Years of MER - Mom Egg Review
3:15pm •
"Mining America's Slave Archives: The Intentional Work of Transhistorical Black Poetry"
4:30pm •
Ways of Be(long)ing
Die With Your Boots On
9:00pm •
Poetry Slam (In partnership with the Boston Poetry Slam)
NAGLY
10:15am •
Teen Track: Crafting session w/ Amy
2:00pm •
Teen Track: Coaching the Future: Building Youth Poetry Slam Teams
2:00pm •
Teen Track: When Bodies Speak in Verse
3:15pm •
Teen Track: Verses in the Air Open Mic
4:30pm •
Teen Track: Teen Festival Showcase
National Park Service - Auditorium
10:15am •
Sylvia Plath: Radical New Directions
11:30am •
Master Class in Reading Your Work Aloud
12:45pm •
Writing Through Evolving Place
2:00pm •
Poetics of Pop Culture and Humor
3:15pm •
Science in Poetry | Poetry in Science
4:30pm •
The Night Office: Embracing the Creative Power of Darkness
PEM - Groups Hub
10:15am •
Lit Craft is Witchcraft: Writing & Performance as Magical Practice
11:30am •
“We, the poets, grant you refuge:” How Palestinian Poetry Inspires Activism
12:45pm •
Bad Classicist: Writers Who Push Back Against Myth
2:00pm •
Watershed: Ecopoetry from the Gulf of Maine
3:15pm •
Grief and Resilience: Poetry Navigating Loss
PEM - Morse Auditorium
10:15am •
DLG Memorial
11:30am •
Understories: Tapping Hidden Networks
2:00pm •
We The Gathered Heat: A Reading of Asian American & Pacific Islander Poets
3:15pm •
Love is the Measure of Loss: Poetry of Grief
St. Peter's Church - Chapel
10:15am •
Collage as a Door to the Poetic Surreal: A Generative Workshop
11:30am •
Filtering White Noise: Using Erasure and Blackout Poetry To Make Sense of It All
12:45pm •
Lyricism and Everyday Life
3:15pm •
Revision Roulette
4:30pm •
Small but Mighty - Creating & Submitting Chapbooks
St. Peter's Church - Large Room
10:15am •
Our Hands Upon
11:30am •
Goin’ Up Yonder: Religion in Black Poetics
2:00pm •
Poe(sí)a: Spoken Word in Spanglish
3:15pm •
Surrealist Poetry in the 21st Century
4:30pm •
American Tyrant: Poetry in the Age of Democratic Fragility
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Die With Your Boots On
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