The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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6:30pm EDT

Kickoff Event: Common Threads: A Celebration of Massachusetts Poets Old Town HallElizabeth Bradfield • J.D. Scrimgeour • Regie Gibson

9:00am EDT

Write Around Salem Old Town Hall

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Diannely Antigua & Felicia Zamora, Sponsored by Letras Latinas PEM - Morse AuditoriumFelicia Zamora • Diannely Antigua Lyricism and Everyday Life St. Peter's Church - ChapelAmanda Gunn • Jess Yuan

2:00pm EDT

Poetics of Pop Culture and Humor National Park Service - AuditoriumOtto Vock • Alejandro Lucero • Jess Yuan • Yena Sharma Purmasir We The Gathered Heat: A Reading of Asian American & Pacific Islander Poets PEM - Morse AuditoriumFranny Choi • Usman Hameedi • Joshua Nguyen • Chrysanthemum • Giles Li • Juliana Chang • Matthew Olzmann

3:15pm EDT

Revision Roulette St. Peter's Church - ChapelCarla Panciera • K. T. Landon

4:30pm EDT

Small but Mighty - Creating & Submitting Chapbooks St. Peter's Church - ChapelAdrie Rose

7:00pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Danez Smith sponsored by Gray Wolf Press Tabernacle ChurchDanez Smith

9:00am EDT

Poetry & Yoga The Salem CommonKirsty Yetter

10:15am EDT

Consequential Gems: The Art of Sequence Poems PEM - Groups HubSara Deniz Akant • Ashna Ali • Diannely Antigua • Adrienne Raphel • Anna V. Q. Ross And yet… There’s still Joy: Joy as a tool for Healing in Poetry St. Peter's Church - ChapelBarbara Fant

11:30am EDT

How to Make Dandelion Wine: Poems of Instruction PEM - Groups HubJulia Thacker

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Saeed Jones & Keetje Kuipers PEM - Morse AuditoriumKeetje Kuipers • Saeed Jones

3:15pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Marilyn Chin & Ross Gay PEM - East India Marine HallRoss Gay • Marilyn Chin