The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Pampi

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Pampi third eye fell is the culture worker/artist/poet/educator and co-founding member of Neighborhood Grow Plan

They are a second GenX, dark(er)-skinned, CasteD queer person

6:30pm EDT

Kickoff Event: Common Threads: A Celebration of Massachusetts Poets Old Town HallElizabeth Bradfield • J.D. Scrimgeour • David J. Silva, Ph.D. • John Andrews • Carmen Barefield • Janet E. Aalfs • Amy Wise Rothschild • Theadora Siranian • Porsha Olayiwola • Anna Lucia Deloia • Gray Davidson Carroll

10:15am EDT

Lit Craft is Witchcraft: Writing & Performance as Magical Practice PEM - Groups HubKailey Tedesco • Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez • Jezmina Von Thiele • Shari Caplan Danielle Legros Georges: A Tribute PEM - Morse AuditoriumMartha Collins • Kevin Gallagher • Patrick Sylvain • Tracy K. Smith

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

Understories: Tapping Hidden Networks PEM - Morse AuditoriumJessica Cuello • January Gill O'Neil • Lesley Wheeler • Oliver de la Paz “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

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Diannely Antigua & Felicia Zamora, Sponsored by Letras Latinas PEM - Morse AuditoriumCloud Delfina Cardona • Felicia Zamora • Diannely Antigua Writing Through Evolving Place PEM - Groups HubLivia Meneghin • Kiran Maharaj • Mary Kovaleski Byrnes • Sonia Aggarwal • Heather Wright

2:00pm EDT

Poetics of Pop Culture and Humor National Park Service - AuditoriumOtto Vock • Alejandro Lucero • Jess Yuan • Yena Sharma Purmasir We The Gathered Heat: A Reading of Asian American & Pacific Islander Poetry PEM - Morse AuditoriumFranny Choi • Usman Hameedi • Joshua Nguyen • Chrysanthemum • Giles Li • Juliana Chang • Matthew Olzmann Mass Poetry Presents: Poets You Ought To Know St. Peter's Church - ChapelJohn Bonanni • Barbara Fant • María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado

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 Watershed: Ecopoetry from the Gulf of Maine PEM - Groups HubElizabeth Bradfield • Ian Ramsey • Samaa Abdurraqib

4:00pm EDT

Poetry-Go-Round: Stone Soup Essex Street - Pedestrian MallChad Parenteau • Toni Bee • Dexter Roberts • James Van Looy

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 Ways of Be(long)ing Cinema Salem - Theater 1Carrie Bennett • Kevin McLellan • Pui Ying Wong • Ruben Quesada • Timothy Liu Small but Mighty - Creating & Submitting Chapbooks St. Peter's Church - ChapelAdrie Rose

7:00pm EDT

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

9:00pm EDT

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

10:15am EDT

From the Editors’ Desk: Demystifying the Submission Process National Park Service - AuditoriumRita Mookerjee • Robin Van Impe • Michael Todd Cohen • Adrian Dallas Frandle And yet… There’s still Joy: Joy as a Tool for Healing in Poetry St. Peter's Church - ChapelBarbara Fant

11:30am EDT

Consequential Gems: The Art of Sequence Poems PEM - Groups HubSara Deniz Akant • Ashna Ali • Diannely Antigua • Adrienne Raphel • Anna V. Q. Ross Finding the Lyric in Shame Cinema Salem - Theater 1Shira Dentz • Krysten Hill • Jennifer Martelli • Jessica Cuello • Joan Kwon Glass State of Poetry Panel PEM - Morse AuditoriumJanuary Gill O'Neil • Cristela Guerra • Carmen Giménez • Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah Cut, Paste, Create: A Workshop in Found Poetry and Art St. Peter's Church - ChapelAyanna Watkins • Meg Palmer

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Regie Gibson & Keetje Kuipers PEM - Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson • Keetje Kuipers The Climate for Publishing Poetry in Massachusetts Cinema Salem - Theater 1Anna M. Warrock • Gloria Mindock • Robbie Gamble • Cheryl Clark Vermeulen • Eileen Cleary Writing Your Weird: On Hyperfixations, Specializations, and Prosody National Park Service - AuditoriumDeMisty D. Bellinger • Catherine Rockwood • Emily Kramer • Han VanderHart • Rachel Trousdale Protest Poetry Workshop St. Peter's Church - ChapelChrista Lamb • Jason M. O'Toole

2:00pm EDT

Re-Inventing the Love Poem: Queer Writers on Embodiment PEM - Morse AuditoriumJill McDonough • Keetje Kuipers • Chen Chen • Joshua Nguyen • Amanda Gunn After Etel Adnan PEM - Groups HubSummer Farah • jess rizkallah • Leena Aboutaleb Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora Anthology Reading Cinema Salem - Theater 1Tobi Kassim • Leticia Priebe Rocha • Wangeci Gitau Mass Poetry Presents: Poets You Ought To Know St. Peter's Church - ChapelSusan Rich • Amy Alvarez • Noah Davis Poetry & Ice Cream Open Mic The House of the Seven GablesAnthony Febo

3:15pm EDT

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