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The 2023 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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Saturday, May 6 • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Last Poems, Last Words: What a Poet’s Legacy Can Teach Us A Generative Writing Workshop

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What do the last poems written by a poet disclose? How can we draw power from their final words? In this workshop, we’ll look at some of the last poems of poets who have recently passed away like Mary Oliver, James Tate, Gerald Stern, Adam Zagajewski, and others to find prompts and signs on how to live with the time we have.
Speakers
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Margaret Young

Poet
Margaret Young is the author of Willow from the Willow, Almond Town, and Blight Summer. A chapbook, How Else Can We Know What’s Beautiful?, and full-length collection The Water Bear are forthcoming. She has translated two books from the Spanish, Sergio Inestrosa’s Espacio Improbable... Read More →
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Elisabeth Weiss

Salem State University
Elisabeth Weiss teaches writing at Salem State University in Salem, MA. She’s taught poetry in preschools, prisons, and nursing homes, as well as to the intellectually disabled. She’s worked in the editorial department at Harper & Row in New York and has an MFA from The University... Read More →

Saturday May 6, 2023 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
PEM Create Space 2
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