The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2013 launches in Salem beginning TOMORROW, Friday, May 3, and continuing through Sunday, May 5, 2013.
The excellence of this festival’s schedule far exceeds what we can adequately cover here, but the following are a few ArtSake picks (most featuring past awardees of MCC’s Artist Fellowships Program):
- Primary Connections: Writing Poetry about Family (Friday, May 3, 1:15-2:25 PM), featuring MCC’s own Charles Coe along with Richard Hoffman and Susan Donnelley
- Invisible Stories (5/3, 3:45-4:45 PM), featuring Sarah Slifer Swift and Kate Tarlow Morgan
- Sentimentality and Its Absence in Contemporary Poems of Pregnancy and Motherhood (Sat. May 4, 12:15-1:15), featuring Lisa Olstein along with Jennifer Militello, Arielle Greenberg, and Rebecca Wolff
- Our Side of the Pond: An Afternoon of Salmon Poets (5/4, 1:30-2:30 PM), featuring Amy Dryansky and Mary O’Donoghue, along with Lori Desrosiers, Mary Pinard, Valerie Duff, and Aimee Sands
- Poets with New Books Reading 2013 (5/4, 1:30-3 PM), featuring Ben Berman and Rodney Wittwer along with Alexis Ivy, Dawn Paul, Lori Desrosiers, Dennis Daly, and Tamiko Beyer
- Salamander 20th Anniversary Reading: New Voices Reading (5/4, 2:45-3:45 PM), featuring Leslie Williams and Marsha Pomerantz along with Wesley Rothman, Joseph Spece, Valerie Duff, and Jennifer Barber
- Headline Event: Bad Poetry Contest Reading with Steve Almond (5/4, 4-5 PM)
- Incantatory Poetry (5/4, 4-5 PM), featuring Regie Gibson and Danielle Legros Georges along with Jean Monahan and Kim Vaeth
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