Name: Celebrating 25 Years of the Massachusetts Book Awards in Poetry, Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for the Book
Start: 2025-06-01T10:15:00-0400
End: 2025-06-01T11:15:00-0400

Sunday June 1, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am EDT

PEM - Morse Auditorium

25 years of the Massachusetts Book Awards in Poetry! This event will feature eight incredible award-winning poets who will read selections from their work, dive into the craft of poetry, and share some of their favorite poetry collections. Whether you're a long-time poetry lover or just curious about the genre, this event promises to inspire and spark new thoughts.

Speakers

January Gill O'Neil

Associate Professor, Salem State University

January Gill O’Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University, and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2019-2020, she served as the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence... Read More →

Daniel Tobin

Professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing, Emerson College

Daniel Tobin is the author of nine books of poems, Where the World is Made (University Press of New England, 1999), Double Life (Louisiana State University Press, 2004), The Narrows (Four Way Books, 2005), Second Things (Four Way Books, 2008), Belated Heavens (Four Way Books, 2010... Read More →

Amy Dryansky

Amy Dryansky (she/her) has published two poetry collections; the second, Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry) received the Massachusetts Book Award, and the first, How I Got Lost So Close to Home, won the New England/New York Award from Alice James Books. Individual poems appear in Harvard... Read More →

Sara Deniz Akant

SARA DENIZ AKANT is a poet, educator, and performer. She is the author of three books — most recently, Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press 2022), which was a New York Times book of the year, a Boston Globe book of the year, and won the Massachusetts Book Award in poetry. She is also the... Read More →

Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is the publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic’s Journey. He has edited The Norton... Read More →

Enzo Silon Surin

Faraday Publishing Company

"Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born, award-winning poet, educator, publisher, and social advocate whose work amplifies marginalized voices and explores identity, democracy, and resilience. He is the author of American Scapegoat, When My Body Was a Clinched Fist (winner of the Massachusetts... Read More →

Henri Cole

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan and raised in Virginia. He has published many collections of poetry and received numerous awards for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, the Lenore... Read More →

Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi is the winner of the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his book Fierce Elegy. He is author of many collections of poetry, including Now It’s Dark (2020), Archeophonics (2016), a finalist for the National Book Award, Threshold Songs (2011), and In Defense of Nothing... Read More →

Sunday June 1, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am EDT
PEM - Morse Auditorium 161 Essex St Salem, MA 01970 USA

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