The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Judy L Kaber

6:00pm EDT

Festival Bookseller: JustBookish Old Town Hall

6:30pm EDT

Kickoff Event: Common Threads: A Celebration of Massachusetts Poets Old Town HallElizabeth Bradfield • J.D. Scrimgeour • David J. Silva, Ph.D. • John Andrews • Carmen Barefield • Janet E. Aalfs • Amy Wise Rothschild • Theadora Siranian • Porsha Olayiwola • Anna Lucia Deloia • Gray Davidson Carroll

9:00am EDT

Write Around Salem Old Town HallDanielle Jones

10:15am EDT

Collage as a Door to the Poetic Surreal: A Generative Workshop St. Peter's Church - ChapelLeticia Priebe Rocha

11:00am EDT

Small Press Fair, Sponsored by the Creative Collective Old Town Hall

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Diannely Antigua & Felicia Zamora, Sponsored by Letras Latinas PEM - Morse AuditoriumCloud Delfina Cardona • Felicia Zamora • Diannely Antigua

2:00pm EDT

We The Gathered Heat: A Reading of Asian American & Pacific Islander Poetry 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

10:15am EDT

And yet… There’s still Joy: Joy as a Tool for Healing in Poetry St. Peter's Church - ChapelBarbara Fant How to Make Dandelion Wine: Poems of Instruction PEM - Groups HubJulia Thacker

2:00pm EDT

Poetry & Ice Cream Open Mic The House of the Seven GablesAnthony Febo