The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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Angela Siew

10:15am EDT

Lit Craft is Witchcraft: Writing & Performance as Magical Practice PEM - Groups HubKailey Tedesco • Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez • Jezmina Von Thiele • Shari Caplan The Informal Formal: A Craft Reading Cinema Salem - Theater 1Michael Mercurio • Desiree C. Bailey • Molly Akin • Tatiana Johnson-Boria Danielle Legros Georges: A Tribute PEM - Morse AuditoriumMartha Collins • Kevin Gallagher • Patrick Sylvain • Tracy K. Smith

11:00am EDT

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

11:30am EDT

Understories: Tapping Hidden Networks PEM - Morse AuditoriumJessica Cuello • January Gill O'Neil • Lesley Wheeler • Oliver de la Paz “On Being Ill:” The Challenges, and Opportunities, of Writing Chronic Illness Cinema Salem - Theater 1Carolyn Oliver • Ann Wallace • Therese Gleason • Maria S. Picone/수영 Master Class in Reading Your Work Aloud National Park Service - AuditoriumLloyd Schwartz

12:45pm EDT

Writing Through Evolving Place PEM - Groups HubLivia Meneghin • Kiran Maharaj • Mary Kovaleski Byrnes • Sonia Aggarwal • Heather Wright Lyricism and Everyday Life St. Peter's Church - ChapelAmanda Gunn • Jess Yuan

2:00pm EDT

Poetics of Pop Culture and Humor National Park Service - AuditoriumOtto Vock • Alejandro Lucero • Jess Yuan • Yena Sharma Purmasir We The Gathered Heat: A Reading of Asian American & Pacific Islander Poetry PEM - Morse AuditoriumFranny Choi • Usman Hameedi • Joshua Nguyen • Chrysanthemum • Giles Li • Juliana Chang • Matthew Olzmann

3:00pm EDT

Poetry-Go-Round: Lily Poetry Series Essex Street - Pedestrian MallAnne Elezabeth Pluto • Eileen Cleary • Gloria Monaghan • Christine Jones

3:15pm EDT

Surrealist Poetry in the 21st Century St. Peter's Church - Large RoomShira Dentz • Anne Elezabeth Pluto • Joanna Fuhrman • Jessica Cuello • Kevin McLellan • K Prevallet Revision Roulette St. Peter's Church - ChapelCarla Panciera • K. T. Landon

7:00pm EDT

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

9:00am EDT

Poetry & Yoga The Salem CommonKirsty Yetter

10:15am EDT

Celebrating 25 Years of the Massachusetts Book Awards in Poetry, Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for the Book PEM - Morse AuditoriumJanuary Gill O'Neil • Daniel Tobin • Amy Dryansky • Sara Deniz Akant • Ilan Stavans • Enzo Silon Surin How to Make Dandelion Wine: Poems of Instruction PEM - Groups HubJulia Thacker

11:30am EDT

Consequential Gems: The Art of Sequence Poems PEM - Groups HubSara Deniz Akant • Ashna Ali • Diannely Antigua • Adrienne Raphel • Anna V. Q. Ross Finding the Lyric in Shame Cinema Salem - Theater 1Shira Dentz • Krysten Hill • Jennifer Martelli • Jessica Cuello • Joan Kwon Glass A Conversation Among Poets National Park Service - AuditoriumRichard Hoffman • Robbie Gamble • Dzvinia Orlowsky • Tatiana Johnson-Boria

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Regie Gibson & Keetje Kuipers PEM - Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson • Keetje Kuipers Why & How to Read Poetry in Translation PEM - Groups HubJennifer Jean • J.D. Scrimgeour • Jonathan Bennett Bonilla

2:00pm EDT

Re-Inventing the Love Poem: Queer Writers on Embodiment PEM - Morse AuditoriumJill McDonough • Keetje Kuipers • Chen Chen • Joshua Nguyen • Amanda Gunn Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora Anthology Reading Cinema Salem - Theater 1Tobi Kassim • Leticia Priebe Rocha • Wangeci Gitau

3:15pm EDT

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