The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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10:15am EDT

Consequential Gems: The Art of Sequence Poems PEM - Groups HubSara Deniz Akant • Ashna Ali • Diannely Antigua • Adrienne Raphel • Anna V. Q. Ross From the Editors’ Desk: Demystifying the Submission Process National Park Service - AuditoriumRita Mookerjee • Robin Van Impe • Michael Todd Cohen • Adrian Dallas Frandle The Poetics of Caregiving: Witness, Community, and Healing through Poetry Cinema Salem - Theater 1Jennifer R. Edwards • Ann Wallace • Lynne Shapiro

11:30am EDT

Finding the Lyric in Shame Cinema Salem - Theater 1Shira Dentz • Krysten Hill • Jennifer Martelli • Jessica Cuello • Joan Glass

12:45pm EDT

The Climate for Publishing Poetry in Massachusetts Cinema Salem - Theater 1Anna M. Warrock • Gloria Mindock • Robbie Gamble • Cheryl Clark Vermeulen • Eileen Cleary Why & How to Read Poetry in Translation PEM - Groups HubJennifer Jean • J.D. Scrimgeour • Jonathan Bennett Bonilla Writing Your Weird: On Hyperfixations, Specializations, and Prosody National Park Service - AuditoriumDeMisty D. Bellinger • Catherine Rockwood • Emily Kramer • Han VanderHart • Rachel Trousdale

2:00pm EDT

Re-Inventing the Love Poem: Queer Writers on Embodiment PEM - Morse AuditoriumJill McDonough • Keetje Kuipers • Chen Chen • Joshua Nguyen • Amanda Gunn