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The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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Sylvia Plath: Radical New Directions
Saturday May 31, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
National Park Service - Auditorium
This panel will explore the life and work of the landmark Massachusetts poet Sylvia Plath through radical new critical approaches, including trans masculinity, intimate partner violence, motherhood, burnt and missing texts, and the metaphysics of place and location.
Speakers
avatar for Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Iris Jamahl Dunkle is a poet, biographer, and scholar. Her new book, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (University of California Press, 2024), is a USA Today bestseller, receiving national acclaim for its poignant exploration of Babb’s life and her fraught relationship... Read More →
avatar for Kelly McMasters

Kelly McMasters

Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She is the author of the Zibby Book Club pick The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton) and co-editor of the ABA national bestseller Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult). Her essays, reviews... Read More →
avatar for Emily M Van Duyne
avatar for Ash Trebisacci
Saturday May 31, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
National Park Service - Auditorium 2 New Liberty St Salem, MA 01970 USA

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