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Sandy Sprague
Marblehead, Massachusetts
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Friday
, May 30
6:00pm
EDT
Festival Bookseller: JustBookish
Old Town Hall
6:30pm
EDT
Kickoff Event: Common Threads: A Celebration of Massachusetts Poets
Old Town Hall
Elizabeth 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
Saturday
, May 31
9:00am
EDT
Write Around Salem
Old Town Hall
Danielle Jones
10:00am
EDT
Revere Beach Stories: Poems and Photographs
PEM - Atrium Alcove
Kevin Carey • Jennifer Martelli • Stephenie Young
10:15am
EDT
Lit Craft is Witchcraft: Writing & Performance as Magical Practice
PEM - Groups Hub
Kailey Tedesco • Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez • Jezmina Von Thiele • Shari Caplan
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
2:00pm
EDT
We The Gathered Heat: A Reading of Asian American & Pacific Islander Poetry
PEM - Morse Auditorium
Franny Choi • Usman Hameedi • Joshua Nguyen • Chrysanthemum • Giles Li • Juliana Chang • Matthew Olzmann
3:15pm
EDT
Watershed: Ecopoetry from the Gulf of Maine
PEM - Groups Hub
Elizabeth Bradfield • Ian Ramsey • Samaa Abdurraqib
4:30pm
EDT
The Night Office: Embracing the Creative Power of Darkness
National Park Service - Auditorium
Carolyn Oliver • Hannah Larrabee • Matthew E. Henry • Nina MacLaughlin
7:00pm
EDT
Headline Reading: Featuring Danez Smith sponsored by Graywolf Press
Tabernacle Church
Danez Smith
9:00pm
EDT
Poetry Slam (In partnership with the Boston Poetry Slam)
Die With Your Boots On
Myles Taylor
Sunday
, June 1
10:00am
EDT
Festival Bookseller: JustBookish
Old Town Hall
10:15am
EDT
From the Editors’ Desk: Demystifying the Submission Process
National Park Service - Auditorium
Rita Mookerjee • Robin Van Impe • Michael Todd Cohen • Adrian Dallas Frandle
Celebrating 25 Years of the Massachusetts Book Awards in Poetry, Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for the Book
PEM - Morse Auditorium
January Gill O'Neil • Daniel Tobin • Amy Dryansky • Sara Deniz Akant • Ilan Stavans • Enzo Silon Surin
How to Make Dandelion Wine: Poems of Instruction
PEM - Groups Hub
Julia Thacker
11:30am
EDT
Cut, Paste, Create: A Workshop in Found Poetry and Art
St. Peter's Church - Chapel
Ayanna Watkins • Meg Palmer
12:45pm
EDT
Headline Reading: Featuring Regie Gibson & Keetje Kuipers
PEM - Morse Auditorium
Regie Gibson • Keetje Kuipers
Writing Your Weird: On Hyperfixations, Specializations, and Prosody
National Park Service - Auditorium
DeMisty D. Bellinger • Catherine Rockwood • Emily Kramer • Han VanderHart • Rachel Trousdale
2:00pm
EDT
Re-Inventing the Love Poem: Queer Writers on Embodiment
PEM - Morse Auditorium
Jill McDonough • Keetje Kuipers • Chen Chen • Joshua Nguyen • Amanda Gunn
Mass Poetry Presents: Poets You Ought To Know
St. Peter's Church - Chapel
Susan Rich • Amy Alvarez • Noah Davis
3:15pm
EDT
Headline Reading: Featuring Marilyn Chin & Ross Gay
PEM - East India Marine Hall
Ross Gay • Marilyn Chin
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