The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Mary Dibinga

Boston Latin Academy

English Teacher

mdibinga@bostonpublicschools.org

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tlUfYWsAcPs

2:00pm EDT

Teen Track: Coaching the Future: Building Youth Poetry Slam Teams NAGLYAnthony Febo

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 Love is the Measure of Loss: Poetry of Grief PEM - Morse AuditoriumCindy Veach • Quintin Collins • Jennifer Martelli • Subhaga Crystal Bacon • Susan Rich

7:00pm EDT

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

10:15am EDT

The Poetics of Caregiving: Witness, Community, and Healing through Poetry Cinema Salem - Theater 1Jennifer R. Edwards • Ann Wallace • Lynne Shapiro

11:30am EDT

Finding the Lyric in Shame Cinema Salem - Theater 1Shira Dentz • Krysten Hill • Jennifer Martelli • Jessica Cuello • Joan Kwon Glass

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Regie Gibson & Keetje Kuipers PEM - Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson • Keetje Kuipers Writing Your Weird: On Hyperfixations, Specializations, and Prosody National Park Service - AuditoriumDeMisty D. Bellinger • Catherine Rockwood • Emily Kramer • Han VanderHart • Rachel Trousdale Moving Words: Poetry & Dance Old Town HallTimothy Gager • Casey Lynn Roland • Betsy Miller • Meghan McLyman • Subhaga Crystal Bacon • Hannah Larrabee • Anna V. Q. Ross • Michelle Deane • Abriana McCollim • Sarah Soares • Olivia Fasino Protest Poetry Workshop St. Peter's Church - ChapelChrista Lamb • Jason M. O'Toole

2:00pm EDT

Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora Anthology Reading Cinema Salem - Theater 1Tobi Kassim • Leticia Priebe Rocha • Wangeci Gitau

3:15pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Marilyn Chin & Ross Gay PEM - East India Marine HallRoss Gay • Marilyn Chin