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The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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Science in Poetry | Poetry in Science
Saturday May 31, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
National Park Service - Auditorium
Physics, astronomy, biology, earth sciences, and poetry all strive to understand life's mysteries. Four prize-winning poets will read from their newest books and discuss the ways literary writers incorporate science theories in their work. The audience is invited to join the discussion! Handouts with writing prompts and resources will be provided.
Speakers
avatar for Jackie Craven

Jackie Craven

Jackie Craven is the author of WHISH, winner of the 2024 poetry award from Press 53. Other titles include Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press) and prize-winning chapbooks from Headmistress Press and Omnidawn. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Alaska... Read More →
avatar for Barbara Ungar

Barbara Ungar

Barbara Ungar is the author six books, most recently, After Naming the Animals, from The Word Works, which also published Immortal Medusa and Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life. Prior books include Save Our Ship, which won the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press, and The Origin... Read More →
avatar for Maggie Greaves

Maggie Greaves

Maggie Greaves is a poetry scholar and poet from Atlanta, GA. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such magazines as North American Review, Literary Matters, Third Coast, and Spoon River Poetry Review, and she has been nominated for multiple Puschart Prizes. Her scholarship... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Giragosian

Sarah Giragosian

Sarah Giragosian is the author of Queer Fish, winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and The Death Spiral. In 2023, the University of Akron Press released the craft anthology, Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems, which she co-edited. She also wrote Mother... Read More →
Saturday May 31, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
National Park Service - Auditorium 2 New Liberty St Salem, MA 01970 USA

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