The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival: Grid

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Cinema Salem - Theater 1	Die With Your Boots On	NAGLY	National Park Service - Auditorium	PEM - Groups Hub	PEM - Morse Auditorium	St. Peter's Church - Chapel	St. Peter's Church - Large Room

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The Informal Formal: A Craft Reading 10:15am - 11:15am

“On Being Ill:” The Challenges, and Opportunities, of Writing Ch... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Poets in Conversation with Gender 12:45pm - 1:45pm

Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Reading Celebrating 22 Years of MER - M... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

"Mining America's Slave Archives: The Intentional Work of Transh... 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Ways of Be(long)ing 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Poetry Slam (In partnership with the Boston Poetry Slam) 9:00pm - 11:00pm

Teen Track: Crafting session w/ Amy 10:15am - 11:15am

Teen Track: Coaching the Future: Building Youth Poetry Slam Team... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Teen Track: When Bodies Speak in Verse 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Teen Track: Verses in the Air Open Mic 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Teen Track: Teen Festival Showcase 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Sylvia Plath: Radical New Directions 10:15am - 11:15am

Master Class in Reading Your Work Aloud 11:30am - 12:30pm

Writing Through Evolving Place 12:45pm - 1:45pm

Poetics of Pop Culture and Humor 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Science in Poetry | Poetry in Science 3:15pm - 4:15pm

The Night Office: Embracing the Creative Power of Darkness 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Lit Craft is Witchcraft: Writing & Performance as Magical Practi... 10:15am - 11:15am

“We, the poets, grant you refuge:” How Palestinian Poetry Inspir... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Bad Classicist: Writers Who Push Back Against Myth 12:45pm - 1:45pm

Watershed: Ecopoetry from the Gulf of Maine 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Grief and Resilience: Poetry Navigating Loss 3:15pm - 4:15pm

DLG Memorial 10:15am - 11:15am

Understories: Tapping Hidden Networks 11:30am - 12:30pm

We The Gathered Heat: A Reading of Asian American & Pacific Isla... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Love is the Measure of Loss: Poetry of Grief 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Collage as a Door to the Poetic Surreal: A Generative Workshop 10:15am - 11:15am

Filtering White Noise: Using Erasure and Blackout Poetry To Make... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Lyricism and Everyday Life 12:45pm - 1:45pm

Revision Roulette 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Small but Mighty - Creating & Submitting Chapbooks 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Our Hands Upon 10:15am - 11:15am

Goin’ Up Yonder: Religion in Black Poetics 11:30am - 12:30pm

Poe(sí)a: Spoken Word in Spanglish 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Surrealist Poetry in the 21st Century 3:15pm - 4:15pm

American Tyrant: Poetry in the Age of Democratic Fragility 4:30pm - 5:30pm

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Cinema Salem - Theater 1	National Park Service - Auditorium	PEM - Groups Hub	PEM - Morse Auditorium	St. Peter's Church - Chapel	The House of the Seven Gables	The Salem Common

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The Poetics of Caregiving: Witness, Community, and Healing throu... 10:15am - 11:15am

Finding the Lyric in Shame 11:30am - 12:30pm

The Climate for Publishing Poetry in Massachusetts 12:45pm - 1:45pm

Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora An... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

From the Editors’ Desk: Demystifying the Submission Process 10:15am - 11:15am

A Conversation Among Poets 11:30am - 12:30pm

Writing Your Weird: On Hyperfixations, Specializations, and Pros... 12:45pm - 1:45pm

Where Do You Live? in Arabic & English 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Consequential Gems: The Art of Sequence Poems 10:15am - 11:15am

How to Make Dandelion Wine: Poems of Instruction 11:30am - 12:30pm

Why & How to Read Poetry in Translation 12:45pm - 1:45pm

After Atel Adnan 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Re-Inventing the Love Poem: Queer Writers on Embodiment 2:00pm - 3:00pm

And yet… There’s still Joy: Joy as a tool for Healing in Poetry 10:15am - 11:15am

Cut, Paste, Create: A Workshop in Found Poetry and Art 11:30am - 12:30pm

Protest Poetry Workshop 12:45pm - 1:45pm

Poetry & Ice Cream Open Mic 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Poetry & Yoga 9:00am - 10:00am