The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Patricia Callan

Salem State University

Visiting Instructor

Salem, MA

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writer, artist, and adjunct instructor at Salem State University

6:00pm EDT

Festival Bookseller: JustBookish Old Town Hall

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

10:00am EDT

Revere Beach Stories: Poems and Photographs PEM - Atrium AlcoveKevin Carey • Jennifer Martelli • Stephenie Young

11:00am EDT

Small Press Fair, Sponsored by the Creative Collective Old Town Hall

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

12:45pm EDT

Bad Classicist: Writers Who Push Back Against Myth National Park Service - AuditoriumJen Jabaily-Blackburn • Nina MacLaughlin • Shanta Lee

3:15pm EDT

Revision Roulette St. Peter's Church - ChapelCarla Panciera • K. T. Landon

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

10:15am EDT

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

12:45pm EDT

Headline Reading: Featuring Regie Gibson & Keetje Kuipers PEM - Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson • Keetje Kuipers

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