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The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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The Informal Formal: A Craft Reading
Saturday May 31, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
Cinema Salem - Theater 1
The Informal Formal: A Craft Reading explores new forms and how to determine a “right” form for the poem’s subject (even the “timeless” one.) Each of the readers will offer a selection of their work and discuss how the poems were shaped during the writing and revision process, with a focus on the “formal” choices made.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Mercurio

Michael Mercurio

Director of Community Engagement, Faraday Publishing Company
"A poet, editor, and occasional critic, Michael Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems, interviews, and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Palette Poetry, Thrush, The Common, Cream City Review, Sierra (the magazine of the... Read More →
avatar for Molly Akin

Molly Akin

Molly Akin is a writer and nonprofit library director based on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Molly was a featured reader along with Jane Huffman and Diane Seuss during the 2024 Tell it Slant poetry festival hosted by the Emily Dickinson Museum. She has read in other venues including Wilder... Read More →
avatar for Desiree C. Bailey

Desiree C. Bailey

Desiree C. Bailey is from Trinidad and Tobago, and Queens, NY. Her collection What Noise Against the Cane won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and was named one of the Best Books of 2021 by the New York Public Library. Desiree is also the author of the fiction chapbook In Dirt... Read More →
avatar for Tatiana Johnson-Boria

Tatiana Johnson-Boria

Tatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023), winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in Poetry. As an educator, artist, facilitator, and mother; she uses her writing practice to dismantle racism, reckon with trauma, cultivate healing, and to explore... Read More →
Saturday May 31, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
Cinema Salem - Theater 1 1 E India Square Mall, Salem, MA 01970 USA

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