The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Robby Auld

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

Small Press Fair, Sponsored by the Creative Collective 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 AuditoriumFelicia Zamora • Diannely Antigua

2:00pm EDT

Poetics of Pop Culture and Humor National Park Service - AuditoriumOtto Vock • Alejandro Lucero • Jess Yuan • Yena Sharma Purmasir

3:15pm EDT

Grief and Resilience: Poetry Navigating Loss PEM - Groups HubEllen Steinbaum • Wendy Drexler • Ann Bookman • Oliver de la Paz • Steven Ratiner

7:00pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Danez Smith sponsored by Gray Wolf Press Tabernacle ChurchDanez Smith

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

11:30am EDT

State of Poetry Panel PEM - Morse Auditorium

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Saeed Jones & Keetje Kuipers PEM - Morse AuditoriumKeetje Kuipers • Saeed Jones

2:00pm EDT

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

3:15pm EDT

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