The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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Robert Smyth

11:30am EDT

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

1:00pm EDT

Poetry-Go-Round: Speak Up Open Mic Essex Street - Pedestrian MallDave Somerset • Robert Whelen • Elizabeth Gordon McKim • Jack Giaour

2:00pm EDT

Grief and Resilience: Poetry Navigating Loss PEM - Groups HubEllen Steinbaum • Wendy Drexler • Ann Bookman • Oliver de la Paz • Steven Ratiner 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

3:15pm EDT

Love is the Measure of Loss: Poetry of Grief PEM - Morse AuditoriumCindy Veach • Quintin Collins • Jennifer Martelli • Subhaga Crystal Bacon • Susan Rich Watershed: Ecopoetry from the Gulf of Maine PEM - Groups HubElizabeth Bradfield • Ian Ramsey • Samaa Abdurraqib

4:30pm EDT

The Night Office: Embracing the Creative Power of Darkness National Park Service - AuditoriumCarolyn Oliver • Hannah Larrabee • Matthew E. Henry • Nina MacLaughlin

7:00pm EDT

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

3:15pm EDT

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