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kate boyle
Friday
, May 30
6:00pm
EDT
Festival Bookseller: JustBookish
Old Town Hall
6:30pm
EDT
Kickoff Event: Common Threads: A Celebration of Massachusetts Poets
Old Town Hall
Elizabeth Bradfield • J.D. Scrimgeour • Regie Gibson
Saturday
, May 31
9:00am
EDT
Write Around Salem
Old Town Hall
10:15am
EDT
Our Hands Upon
St. Peter's Church - Large Room
Alexis Fedorjaczenko
The Informal Formal: A Craft Reading
Cinema Salem - Theater 1
Michael Mercurio • Desiree C. Bailey • Molly Akin • Tatiana Johnson-Boria
11:00am
EDT
Small Press Fair, Sponsored by the Creative Collective
Essex Street - Pedestrian Mall
11:30am
EDT
Understories: Tapping Hidden Networks
PEM - Morse Auditorium
Anna Maria Hong • Lesley Wheeler • Oliver de la Paz
12:45pm
EDT
Headline Reading: Featuring Diannely Antigua & Felicia Zamora, Sponsored by Letras Latinas
PEM - Morse Auditorium
Felicia Zamora • Diannely Antigua
Writing Through Evolving Place
PEM - Groups Hub
Livia Meneghin • Kiran Maharaj • Mary Kovaleski Byrnes • Sonia Aggarwal • Heather Wright
3:15pm
EDT
Love is the Measure of Loss: Poetry of Grief
PEM - Morse Auditorium
Cindy Veach • Quintin Collins • Jennifer Martelli • Subhaga Crystal Bacon • Susan Rich
4:30pm
EDT
Small but Mighty - Creating & Submitting Chapbooks
St. Peter's Church - Chapel
Adrie Rose
7:00pm
EDT
Headline Reading: Featuring Danez Smith sponsored by Gray Wolf Press
Tabernacle Church
Danez Smith
Sunday
, June 1
10:00am
EDT
Festival Bookseller: JustBookish
Old Town Hall
10:15am
EDT
Consequential Gems: The Art of Sequence Poems
PEM - Groups Hub
Sara 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 - Chapel
Barbara Fant
11:30am
EDT
State of Poetry Panel
PEM - Morse Auditorium
12:45pm
EDT
Headline Reading: Featuring Saeed Jones & Keetje Kuipers
PEM - Morse Auditorium
Keetje Kuipers • Saeed Jones
The Climate for Publishing Poetry in Massachusetts
Cinema Salem - Theater 1
Anna M. Warrock • Gloria Mindock • Robbie Gamble • Cheryl Clark Vermeulen • Eileen Cleary
3:15pm
EDT
Headline Reading: Featuring Marilyn Chin & Ross Gay
PEM - East India Marine Hall
Ross Gay • Marilyn Chin
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