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2012 Massachusetts Poetry Festival–April 20-22

By Jacquelyn on February 1, 2012 in Featured

Fourth Massachusetts Poetry Festival will be held on April 20, 21, and 22 in Salem. Each year the festival grows and new features are added. Come back to this page regularly as the festival takes shape and headliners are announced. We’ll be presenting panels, workshops, music and poetry, songwriting, dance and poetry, poetry installations, small [...]

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Volunteers needed for the Mass Poetry Festival

By Jacquelyn on January 28, 2012 in Featured

INVITATION If you are a poet, volunteer If you are a word weaver, a dream maker, a storyteller, A poetry enthusiast, literacy advocator, community builder… If you’re a friend of Calliope, come join us For we have a festival to create. Come join! Come join!             The Mass Poetry Festival is looking for enthusiastic volunteers [...]

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CommonThreads: Poems for national poetry month

By Jacquelyn on January 28, 2012 in Common Threads, Featured, For Readers, News

  Back by popular demand, Mass Poetry offers its second annual Common Threads group reading and discussion program for April, National Poetry Month. The texts of the poems, videos of the poets reading their own work and poems from those no longer with us, plus a discussion guide, questions, and links will be available on [...]

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Saturday Night Headliners for 2012 Festival

By Jacquelyn on January 24, 2012 in Featured, News

The Massachusetts Poetry Festival announces the following three poets who will headline events Saturday night: Nikky Finney, Wesley McNair, and Joy Harjo.  2011 National Book Award Winner Nikky Finney Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and [...]

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