The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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Sarah Giragosian

9:30am EDT

Festival Bookseller: JustBookish Old Town Hall

2:00pm EDT

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

Science in Poetry | Poetry in Science National Park Service - AuditoriumJackie Craven • Maggie Greaves • Barbara Ungar • Sarah Giragosian

4:30pm EDT

Ways of Be(long)ing Cinema Salem - Theater 1Carrie Bennett • Kevin McLellan • Pui Ying Wong • Ruben Quesada • Timothy Liu

7:00pm EDT

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

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

2:00pm EDT

Re-Inventing the Love Poem: Queer Writers on Embodiment PEM - Morse AuditoriumJill McDonough • Keetje Kuipers • Chen Chen • Joshua Nguyen • Amanda Gunn

3:15pm EDT

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