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The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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Understories: Tapping Hidden Networks
Saturday May 31, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
PEM - Morse Auditorium
What cues can poets take from the remarkable underground pathways ignited by trees, fungi, and other species? The poets, editors, and organizers on this panel will discuss how, working outside of established power structures in precarious times and spaces, we can connect with allies and advocates—and how these relationships affect the work itself. Literature has a Wood Wide Web, and we can tap it.
Speakers
avatar for Lesley Wheeler

Lesley Wheeler

Lesley Wheeler, Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, is the author of six poetry collections, including Mycocosmic, new from Tupelo Press, and The State She’s In. Her other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming. Her work has been supported by... Read More →
avatar for Oliver de la Paz

Oliver de la Paz

Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry... Read More →
avatar for Anna Maria Hong

Anna Maria Hong

Visiting Creative Writer, Ursinus College
Anna Maria Hong is the author of the poetry collections Age of Glass, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition, and Fablesque, winner of Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize... Read More →
avatar for January Gill O'Neil
Saturday May 31, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
PEM - Morse Auditorium 161 Essex St Salem, MA 01970 USA

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