The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Catherine Strisik

Taos Journal of Poetry

poet/publisher/editor

Gloucester, MA

cathystrisik.com

About me

Author of four poetry collections; editor/publisher of Taos Journal of Poetry; past poet laureate of Taos, N.M.; poetry & essay workshop instructor; recently relocated to Cape Ann where I grew up after living in Taos, NM for 42 years.

10:15am EDT

Sylvia Plath: Radical New Directions National Park Service - AuditoriumIris Jamahl Dunkle • Ash Trebisacci • Kelly McMasters • Emily Van Duyne Danielle Legros Georges: A Tribute PEM - Morse AuditoriumMartha Collins • Kevin Gallagher • Patrick Sylvain • Tracy K. Smith

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Small Press Fair, Sponsored by the Creative Collective Old Town Hall Poetry-Go-Round: Garage Poets Essex Street - Pedestrian MallJason M. Rubin • Anna Geoffroy • Rusty Barnes • Andrea Donna

11:30am EDT

Understories: Tapping Hidden Networks PEM - Morse AuditoriumJessica Cuello • January Gill O'Neil • Lesley Wheeler • Oliver de la Paz

12:00pm EDT

Poetry-Go-Round: Virtual Dire Literary Series Essex Street - Pedestrian MallTimothy Gager • Jennifer Martelli • Tom Laughlin • Kimberly Ann Priest

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

Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Reading Celebrating 22 Years of MER - Mom Egg Review Cinema Salem - Theater 1Cindy Veach • Kathleen Aguero • Carla Panciera • Jennifer Barber • Joan Kwon Glass • Marjorie Tesser • Nadia Arioli 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

Love is the Measure of Loss: Poetry of Grief PEM - Morse AuditoriumCindy Veach • Quintin Collins • Jennifer Martelli • Subhaga Crystal Bacon • Susan Rich

4:30pm EDT

Ways of Be(long)ing Cinema Salem - Theater 1Carrie Bennett • Kevin McLellan • Pui Ying Wong • Ruben Quesada • Timothy Liu

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

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

The Climate for Publishing Poetry in Massachusetts Cinema Salem - Theater 1Anna M. Warrock • Gloria Mindock • Robbie Gamble • Cheryl Clark Vermeulen • Eileen Cleary

2:00pm EDT

Re-Inventing the Love Poem: Queer Writers on Embodiment PEM - Morse AuditoriumJill McDonough • Keetje Kuipers • Chen Chen • Joshua Nguyen • Amanda Gunn Mass Poetry Presents: Poets You Ought To Know St. Peter's Church - ChapelSusan Rich • Amy Alvarez • Noah Davis

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