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The 2023 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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9:00am EDT

Poetry & Yoga Salem CommonKirsty Yetter

10:00am EDT

The “House of Hope” Poetry Quilt PEM AtriumL’Merchie Frazier Cool Down Room NAGLY The Add-Some-Art Mural NAGLYNile Hennick

10:15am EDT

Witches All the Way Down': Persona, Archive, Incantation PEM Morse AuditoriumCindy Veach • Carolyn Oliver • Elizabeth Sylvia • Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez • Therese Gleason 25 Years of Shabdaguchha: A Multilingual Poetry Reading PEM Forbes GalleryDaniel Sklar • Hassanal Abdullah • Kristine Doll • Amir Or • Joan Digby • Naznin Seamon • Sultan Catto A Reading by the 'Sum Poets' of Bunker Hill Community College PEM Group HubLuleta Meharenna • Deborah Schwartz • Alexis Ask • Lilo Roque • Maya Blanco Aspanfut: Re-discovering Language through the Ukrainian Avant-Garde PEM Create Space 2Jack Giaour Recycled Words: Found Poetry PEM Create Space 1Yetti Frenkel

10:30am EDT

The Poetry & … Showcase Cinema Salem

11:00am EDT

Small Press Fair & Table Events Essex Street Pedestrian Mall

11:30am EDT

You Own the Mic: The Emergence of Online Poetry Readings PEM Create Space 2Jha D • Toni Bee • Timothy Gager • Chad Parenteau Korean American Women Breaking Silences PEM Forbes GallerySu Cho • Eugenia Leigh • Joan Kwon Glass • Marci Carabretta Cancio-Bello Massachusetts Poets Laureate PEM Morse AuditoriumLloyd Schwartz • Jennifer Barber • Steven Ratiner • Porsha Olayiwola • Ellie O'Leary Now as Mother: In the Presence of Loved Ones with Alzheimer's PEM Groups HubGail Thomas • Eileen Kennedy • Christine Jones • Eric Hyett Dreaming Your Way into a Poem: A Generative Workshop PEM Create Space 1Mary Buchinger • Frances Donovan • Jennifer Badot

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Time Hope Poems PEM Atrium

12:45pm EDT

Words in Space: Four poets share their visions PEM Forbes GalleryMartha Collins • Mary Buchinger • Danielle Legros Georges • Donna David Poems from Ukraine: New Translations PEM Create Space 1John Hennessy • Ostap Kin Poetry and Blessing PEM Groups HubDeborah Leipziger • Eileen Cleary • Preeta Banerjee • Alexander Levering Kern • Usman Hameedi Headline Reading w/ Cameron Awkward-Rich & Franny Choi; Sponsored by The Shipman Agency PEM Morse AuditoriumFranny Choi • Cameron Awkward-Rich

1:00pm EDT

Poetry Comix Workshop: Sketch & Snack NAGLYRyan M. Valentine

2:00pm EDT

Can Serious Poems Be Funny? Can Funny Poems Be Serious? PEM Morse AuditoriumLloyd Schwartz • Denise Provost • Gail Mazur • Robert Pinsky Love Poems in Time of Crisis PEM Create Space 1Deborah Leipziger • Joey Gould • Robbie Gamble • Krysten Hill Pangyrus: Where Poetry Lives PEM Groups HubSerina Gousby • Carrie Bennett • Cheryl Clark Vermeulen • Alexandria Peary • Cynthia Bargar • Jennifer Martelli • Danielle Legros Georges • Victor Hugo Mendevil Poems from Home: A Reading & Discussion with Massachusetts Poets, Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for the Book PEM Forbes GalleryKarolina Zapal • Nathan McClain • Sara Deniz Akant • Jill McDonough Last Poems, Last Words: What a Poet’s Legacy Can Teach Us A Generative Writing Workshop PEM Create Space 2Margaret Young • Elisabeth Weiss

3:00pm EDT

Surrealist Poetry Salon ChagallPACDiana Norma Szokolyai That’s My Fam! Youth Poetry Slam Cinema SalemKrysten Hill

3:15pm EDT

Poetry and Ice Cream House of the Seven GablesCrystal Valentine Double-Life Poets: Balancing Poetry with a Non-Literary Career PEM Groups HubK. T. Landon • Pamela Taylor • Cynthia Manick • Robert Carr In Praise of Legacy: Writers of Color and the Challenge of the Canon PEM Forbes GalleryMichael Mercurio • Oliver De La Paz • Enzo Silon Surin • Nathan McClain The Power of the Visual in Poetry: Visual Poetry and Asemics PEM Create Space 2Karla Van Vliet • Sue Scavo • Kylie Gellatly Trust The Process PEM Morse AuditoriumTim Hall From Fallen Angels to Fungi: Writing the Next Apocalypse PEM Create Space 1Maria Pinto • Walter Smelt • Christopher Spaide

4:30pm EDT

Collaborating from Within and Without: How Member-run Slate Roof Press Expands Access to Visually Impaired and Underrepresented Writers PEM Create Space 2Anna M. Warrock • Janet MacFadyen • Ed Rayher • Richard Wollman • Susan Glass State of Poetry Panel PEM Morse AuditoriumCristela Guerra • Eileen Cleary • Mckendy Fils-Aime • Jennifer Jean • Kimiko Hahn We Were Never Meant to Survive: Poetry of Witness to Womanhood PEM Forbes GalleryJanine Joseph • Eugenia Leigh • Chase Berggrun • Maya Marshall Instagram Poetry: A Writer Shares Their Experience PEM Groups HubEmily Li

7:00pm EDT

Headline Reading w/ Kimiko Hahn & Matthew Olzmann, Sponsored by The Fine Arts Work Center Tabernacle Congregation ChurchJennifer Jean • Kimiko Hahn • Matthew Olzmann

8:45pm EDT

The Poetry Brothel Gulu-Gulu CaféJezmina von Thiele • Egbert J Poindexter • Madam Betty BOOM • Izzie Hexxam • Livia Dove • Shego • Holy Crow • Sirena • Lillian Queen • Priscilla Parsley • Kitty Levesque • Temptress of Light