The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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9:00am EDT

Poetry & Yoga

10:00am EDT

Festival Bookseller: JustBookish

10:15am EDT

From the Editors’ Desk: Demystifying the Submission Process

10:15am EDT

The Poetics of Caregiving: Witness, Community, and Healing through Poetry

10:15am EDT

Celebrating 25 Years of the Massachusetts Book Awards in Poetry, Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for the Book

10:15am EDT

And yet… There’s still Joy: Joy as a Tool for Healing in Poetry

10:15am EDT

How to Make Dandelion Wine: Poems of Instruction

11:30am EDT

Consequential Gems: The Art of Sequence Poems

11:30am EDT

Finding the Lyric in Shame

11:30am EDT

A Conversation Among Poets

11:30am EDT

State of Poetry Panel

11:30am EDT

Cut, Paste, Create: A Workshop in Found Poetry and Art

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Regie Gibson & Keetje Kuipers

12:45pm EDT

The Climate for Publishing Poetry in Massachusetts

12:45pm EDT

Why & How to Read Poetry in Translation

12:45pm EDT

Writing Your Weird: On Hyperfixations, Specializations, and Prosody

12:45pm EDT

Moving Words: Poetry & Dance

12:45pm EDT

Protest Poetry Workshop

2:00pm EDT

Re-Inventing the Love Poem: Queer Writers on Embodiment

2:00pm EDT

After Etel Adnan

2:00pm EDT

Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora Anthology Reading

2:00pm EDT

Where Do You Live? in Arabic & English

2:00pm EDT

Mass Poetry Presents: Poets You Ought To Know

2:00pm EDT

Poetry & Ice Cream Open Mic

3:15pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Marilyn Chin & Ross Gay