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The 2023 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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Saturday, May 6 • 4:30pm - 5:30pm
State of Poetry Panel

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The State of Poetry Panel returns! Hosted by Cristela Guerra, a WBUR arts and culture reporter, featuring Kimiko Hahn, Jennifer Jean, Mckendy Fils-Aimé, and Eileen Cleary.  This event brings together panelists with different perspectives of the poetry world to share their thoughts on the current state (and future) of poetry in America.
Moderators
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Cristela Guerra

Cristela Guerra is an arts and culture reporter for WBUR. She worked for nearly four years at The Boston Globe writing human-interest features, covering everything from blizzards to arts to immigration as well as breaking news around New England. She started her career in Florida... Read More →

Speakers
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Eileen Cleary

Eileen Cleary is the author of 'Child ward of the Commonwealth' (2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and ' 2 a.m. with Keats' (Nixes Mate, 2021). In addition, she co-edited the anthology ' Voices Amidst the Virus', the featured text... Read More →
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Mckendy Fils-Aime

Mckendy Fils-Aimé is a New England based Haitian-American poet and educator. He is a nine-time veteran and perennial semi-finalist of the National Poetry Slam, where has represented venues from Boston, MA, Worcester, MA, and Manchester, NH. Mckendy has been an artist in residence... Read More →
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Jennifer Jean

Jennifer Jean’s poetry collections include VOZ and The Fool, as well as Object Lesson which is about sex-trafficking and objectification in America. Her teaching resource book is Object Lesson: a Guide to Writing Poetry. Jennifer is a co-editor and co-translator of an anthology... Read More →
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Kimiko Hahn

Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems, including: Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton, 2020); Brain Fever (WWN, 2014), and Toxic Flora (WWN, 2010), all collections prompted by science; The Narrow Road to the Interior (WWN, 2006), a collection that takes its title from Basho’s... Read More →

Saturday May 6, 2023 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
PEM Morse Auditorium
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