The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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Kyle Paczkowski

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 Common Threads: Weaving Worlds Together. A Community Poem for the 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival Essex Street - Pedestrian Mall

11:30am EDT

“We, the poets, grant you refuge:” How Palestinian Poetry Inspires Activism PEM - Groups HubJuPong Lin • Carolyn A. Cushing • mona shiber • Rachel Teferet “On Being Ill:” The Challenges, and Opportunities, of Writing Chronic Illness Cinema Salem - Theater 1Carolyn Oliver • Ann Wallace • Therese Gleason • Maria S. Picone/수영 Filtering White Noise: Using Erasure and Blackout Poetry To Make Sense of It All St. Peter's Church - ChapelChad Parenteau

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

Poe(sí)a: Spoken Word in Spanglish St. Peter's Church - Large RoomAlejandra Ramos Gómez

3:15pm EDT

"Mining America's Slave Archives: The Intentional Work of Transhistorical Black Poetry" Cinema Salem - Theater 1nicole terez dutton • Artress Bethany White • Lauren Russell

4:30pm EDT

American Tyrant: Poetry in the Age of Democratic Fragility St. Peter's Church - Large RoomEnzo Silon Surin • Cortney Lamar Charleston • Suzanne Frischkorn

7:00pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Danez Smith sponsored by Graywolf Press Tabernacle ChurchDanez Smith