The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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10:15am EDT

Sylvia Plath: Radical New Directions National Park Service - AuditoriumIris Jamahl Dunkle • Ash Trebisacci • Kelly McMasters • Emily Van Duyne

11:00am EDT

Small Press Fair, Sponsored by the Creative Collective Old Town Hall

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

2:00pm EDT

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

3:15pm EDT

"Mining America's Slave Archives: The Intentional Work of Transhistorical Black Poetry" Cinema Salem - Theater 1nicole terez dutton • Artress Bethany White • Lauren Russell

4:30pm EDT

Teen Track: Teen Festival Showcase NAGLYAnthony Febo

7:00pm EDT

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