Guest post by Charles Coe Preparations are ramping up for the seventh-annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival, which will take place in historic Salem from Friday, May 1st through Sunday, May 5th. This year's event features headliners Rita Dove, Richard Blanco, Stephen Burt, Jorie Graham, and dozens of other contemporary poets. But if you can't make it to Salem that … [Read more...]
Charles Coe, on All Sins Forgiven
Charles Coe (Poetry Fellow '96) is an active contributor to the literary community and worked with us at the Mass Cultural Council 1997-2015. So we were thrilled to ask Charles a few questions about his "other life" - and his new poetry collection All Sins Forgiven: Poems for My Parents. ArtSake: Did the central idea of your collection - poems for your parents - steer you … [Read more...]
Echoes of a Troubled Time
The following is a guest post by Charles Coe, Program Officer for Cultural Investment Portfolio, Massachusetts Cultural Council - As the audience sat in rapt attention, the speaker described how during World War II, the Nazis cynically promoted arts and culture at the Terezin concentration camp to maintain the fiction that the prisoners (who the regime claimed were in … [Read more...]