The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

10:15am PDT

Collage as a Door to the Poetic Surreal: A Generative Workshop St. Peter's Church - Chapel DLG Memorial PEM - Morse Auditorium Lit Craft is Witchcraft: Writing & Performance as Magical Practice PEM - Groups Hub Our Hands Upon St. Peter's Church - Large Room Sylvia Plath: Radical New Directions National Park Service - Auditorium Teen Track: Crafting session w/ Amy NAGLY The Informal Formal: A Craft Reading Cinema Salem - Theater 1

11:30am PDT

Filtering White Noise: Using Erasure and Blackout Poetry To Make Sense of It All St. Peter's Church - Chapel Goin’ Up Yonder: Religion in Black Poetics St. Peter's Church - Large Room Master Class in Reading Your Work Aloud National Park Service - Auditorium Understories: Tapping Hidden Networks PEM - Morse Auditorium “On Being Ill:” The Challenges, and Opportunities, of Writing Chronic Illness Cinema Salem - Theater 1 “We, the poets, grant you refuge:” How Palestinian Poetry Inspires Activism PEM - Groups Hub

12:45pm PDT

Bad Classicist: Writers Who Push Back Against Myth PEM - Groups Hub Lyricism and Everyday Life St. Peter's Church - Chapel Poets in Conversation with Gender Cinema Salem - Theater 1 Writing Through Evolving Place National Park Service - Auditorium

2:00pm PDT

Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Reading Celebrating 22 Years of MER - Mom Egg Review Cinema Salem - Theater 1 Poe(sí)a: Spoken Word in Spanglish St. Peter's Church - Large Room Poetics of Pop Culture and Humor National Park Service - Auditorium Teen Track: Coaching the Future: Building Youth Poetry Slam Teams NAGLY Teen Track: When Bodies Speak in Verse NAGLY Watershed: Ecopoetry from the Gulf of Maine PEM - Groups Hub We The Gathered Heat: A Reading of Asian American & Pacific Islander Poets PEM - Morse Auditorium

3:15pm PDT

"Mining America's Slave Archives: The Intentional Work of Transhistorical Black Poetry" Cinema Salem - Theater 1 Grief and Resilience: Poetry Navigating Loss PEM - Groups Hub Love is the Measure of Loss: Poetry of Grief PEM - Morse Auditorium Revision Roulette St. Peter's Church - Chapel Science in Poetry | Poetry in Science National Park Service - Auditorium Surrealist Poetry in the 21st Century St. Peter's Church - Large Room Teen Track: Verses in the Air Open Mic NAGLY

4:30pm PDT

American Tyrant: Poetry in the Age of Democratic Fragility St. Peter's Church - Large Room Small but Mighty - Creating & Submitting Chapbooks St. Peter's Church - Chapel Teen Track: Teen Festival Showcase NAGLY The Night Office: Embracing the Creative Power of Darkness National Park Service - Auditorium Ways of Be(long)ing Cinema Salem - Theater 1

9:00pm PDT

Poetry Slam (In partnership with the Boston Poetry Slam) Die With Your Boots On

9:00am PDT

Poetry & Yoga The Salem Common

10:15am PDT

And yet… There’s still Joy: Joy as a tool for Healing in Poetry St. Peter's Church - Chapel Consequential Gems: The Art of Sequence Poems PEM - Groups Hub From the Editors’ Desk: Demystifying the Submission Process National Park Service - Auditorium The Poetics of Caregiving: Witness, Community, and Healing through Poetry Cinema Salem - Theater 1

11:30am PDT

A Conversation Among Poets National Park Service - Auditorium Cut, Paste, Create: A Workshop in Found Poetry and Art St. Peter's Church - Chapel Finding the Lyric in Shame Cinema Salem - Theater 1 How to Make Dandelion Wine: Poems of Instruction PEM - Groups Hub

12:45pm PDT

Protest Poetry Workshop St. Peter's Church - Chapel The Climate for Publishing Poetry in Massachusetts Cinema Salem - Theater 1 Why & How to Read Poetry in Translation PEM - Groups Hub Writing Your Weird: On Hyperfixations, Specializations, and Prosody National Park Service - Auditorium

2:00pm PDT

After Atel Adnan PEM - Groups Hub Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora Anthology Reading Cinema Salem - Theater 1 Poetry & Ice Cream Open Mic The House of the Seven Gables Re-Inventing the Love Poem: Queer Writers on Embodiment PEM - Morse Auditorium Where Do You Live? in Arabic & English National Park Service - Auditorium