The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Alex Aimee Kist

Festival Director of NorthBeast

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10:00am EDT

Revere Beach Stories: Poems and Photographs PEM - Atrium AlcoveKevin Carey • Jennifer Martelli • Stephenie Young

10:15am EDT

Lit Craft is Witchcraft: Writing & Performance as Magical Practice PEM - Groups HubKailey Tedesco • Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez • Jezmina Von Thiele • Shari Caplan

11:00am EDT

Common Threads: Weaving Worlds Together. A Community Poem for the 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival Essex Street - Pedestrian Mall

11:30am EDT

“On Being Ill:” The Challenges, and Opportunities, of Writing Chronic Illness Cinema Salem - Theater 1Carolyn Oliver • Ann Wallace • Therese Gleason • Maria S. Picone/수영

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Diannely Antigua & Felicia Zamora, Sponsored by Letras Latinas PEM - Morse AuditoriumCloud Delfina Cardona • Felicia Zamora • Diannely Antigua Poets in Conversation with Gender Cinema Salem - Theater 1Lee Desrosiers • Steven Riel • Jendi Reiter • Subhaga Crystal Bacon

1:00pm EDT

Poetry-Go-Round: Speak Up Open Mic Essex Street - Pedestrian MallDave Somerset • Robert Whelen • Elizabeth Gordon McKim • Jack Giaour

7:00pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Danez Smith sponsored by Graywolf Press Tabernacle ChurchDanez Smith

9:00pm EDT

Poetry Slam (In partnership with the Boston Poetry Slam) Die With Your Boots OnMyles Taylor

10:15am EDT

And yet… There’s still Joy: Joy as a Tool for Healing in Poetry St. Peter's Church - ChapelBarbara Fant

11:30am EDT

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

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Regie Gibson & Keetje Kuipers PEM - Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson • Keetje Kuipers

2:00pm EDT

Poetry & Ice Cream Open Mic The House of the Seven GablesAnthony Febo

3:15pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Marilyn Chin & Ross Gay PEM - East India Marine HallRoss Gay • Marilyn Chin