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Saturday, May 31
 

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Diannely Antigua & Felicia Zamora, Sponsored by Letras Latinas
Saturday May 31, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Come join us for our first headline event of the Festival, featuring reading and conversation with poets Diannely Antigua and Felicia Zamora, moderated by Cloud Delfina Cardona and sponsored by fellow Poetry Coalition organization Letras Latinas.

Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), strives to enhance the visibility, appreciation and study of Latinx literature both on and off the campus of the University of Notre Dame. We put an emphasis on programs that support newer voices, foster a sense of community among writers, and place Latinx writers in community spaces.
Speakers
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Felicia Zamora

Felicia Zamora is a poet, educator, and editor currently living in Ohio. She is the author of eight books of poetry, including: Murmuration Archives (Akrílica Series with Noemi Press forthcoming in 2026); Interstitial Archaeology, an Editor’s Pick for The Wisconsin Poetry Ser... Read More →
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Diannely Antigua

Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of two poetry collections, Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019), which was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award, and Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). She received her MFA at NYU and is the recipient of additional fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her poems can be found in Poem-a-Day, Poetry, The American Poetry Review... Read More →
Saturday May 31, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
PEM - Morse Auditorium 161 Essex St Salem, MA 01970 USA

7:00pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Danez Smith sponsored by Graywolf Press
Saturday May 31, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
Come join us for our Saturday night headline event, sponsored by Graywolf Press, featuring Danez Smith and a special performance by our Mass Poetry SW@MP Teens!
Speakers
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Danez Smith

Danez Smith is the author of four poetry collections: [insert] boyDon’t Call Us DeadHomie, and, most recently, Bluff. They are also the curator of Blues In Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes. For their work, Danez has won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, as well as an array o... Read More →
Saturday May 31, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
Tabernacle Church 50 Washington Street, Salem, MA 01970 USA
 
Sunday, June 1
 

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Regie Gibson & Keetje Kuipers
Sunday June 1, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Come join us for our this headline reading, featuring Regie Gibson and Keetje Kuipers.
Speakers
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Regie Gibson

"Regie, when you perform, you are supersonic and in the stratosphere, where you can see that the Earth really is a ball, moist, blue-green. Regie, you sing and chant for all of us. Nobody gets left out." -Kurt VonnegutPoet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator Regie... Read More →
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Keetje Kuipers

Senior Editor, Poetry Northwest
Writer and editor Keetje Kuipers (pronounced Kay-tcha Ky-pers) is the author of four books of poems, all from BOA Editions. Her most recent collection, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (2025), was the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her first book, Beautiful in the Mouth, was... Read More →
Sunday June 1, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
PEM - Morse Auditorium 161 Essex St Salem, MA 01970 USA

3:15pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Marilyn Chin & Ross Gay
Sunday June 1, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
Come join us for our final headline reading of the Festival, featuring Marilyn Chin and Ross Gay.
Speakers
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Ross Gay

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against WhichBringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry... Read More →
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Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin is an award-winning poet and author of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (2003), Hard Love Province (2014), A Portrait of the Self As Nation (2018), and Sage (2023), among others. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon, Chin’s works have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Contemporary Women Poets essayist Anne-Elizabeth Green observed, “The pains of cultural assimilation infuse [Chin’s... Read More →
Sunday June 1, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
PEM - East India Marine Hall 161 Essex St Salem, MA 01970 USA
 
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