2012 Massachusetts Poetry Festival–April 20-22
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
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
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
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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2012 FESTIVAL POETS
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- Joy Harjo A Poem to Get Rid of Fear
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- 2:45
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- Nikky Finney reads "Penguin Mullet Bread"
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- 4:17
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- A poem from Head Off and Split. Visit www....
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- Wesley McNair: 2011 National Book Festival
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- 38:39
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- Wesley McNair appears at the 2011 National Book Fe...
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