The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Each writer/artist on this panel reaches back into the worlds and stories of myth and folklore to interrogate these narratives' silences, harms, and omissions. We work with these materials, knowing full well that they have historically been used to reinforce oppressive systems of empire, patriarchy, whiteness, and misogyny. Rather than hold these stories up as unimpeachable or as a means of gatekeeping or control, we aim to create novel points of access into these stories as we claim agency as narrators & reinvent myths in our own ways.