The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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9:00am EDT

Write Around Salem Old Town HallDanielle Jones

10:15am EDT

Lit Craft is Witchcraft: Writing & Performance as Magical Practice PEM - Groups HubKailey Tedesco • Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez • Jezmina Von Thiele • Shari Caplan Sylvia Plath: Radical New Directions National Park Service - AuditoriumIris Jamahl Dunkle • Ash Trebisacci • Kelly McMasters • Emily Van Duyne

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

12:45pm EDT

Poets in Conversation with Gender Cinema Salem - Theater 1Lee Desrosiers • Steven Riel • Jendi Reiter • Subhaga Crystal Bacon

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

3:15pm EDT

Surrealist Poetry in the 21st Century St. Peter's Church - Large RoomShira Dentz • Anne Elezabeth Pluto • Joanna Fuhrman • Jessica Cuello • Kevin McLellan • K Prevallet Watershed: Ecopoetry from the Gulf of Maine PEM - Groups HubElizabeth Bradfield • Ian Ramsey • Samaa Abdurraqib Revision Roulette St. Peter's Church - ChapelCarla Panciera • K. T. Landon

4:30pm EDT

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