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Common Threads: Connecting with Massachusetts Poets

January 7, 2015 Leave a Comment

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...]

Mass Poetry Fest 2012!

April 4, 2012 Leave a Comment

O flames that glowed! O hearts that yearned! The Massachusetts Poetry Festival is nigh upon us! It's a schedule of events, workshops, performances, and readings, centered around a three-day (April 20-22, 2012) festival in Salem, MA. As Mass Poetry Fest Executive Director January Gill O'Neil put it in a recent blog post, "More than 85 sessions: poetry, panels, slams, music, … [Read more...]

Poets and Citizens: The Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem

April 28, 2011 Leave a Comment

In a post for the Vox Mom blog, Massachusetts poet Jennifer Jean writes engagingly about her belief in Literary Citizenship. In her case, that means contributing her time and energy to the poetry community despite the already robust demands of being a poet and working mother. As a Literary Citizen, she makes sure to impart a love of poetry in those around her. She also takes an … [Read more...]

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