Steve Almond drew an overflow audience last year at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival with his presentation Bad Poetry. Using his own poems as well as those of others who wanted to be in on the fun and learn at the same time, he joked, displayed and generally had the audience roaring at what we all [...]

  The Massachusetts Poetry Festival is looking for visual artists who would like to have their work prominently displayed at the festival. The stipulation for display is that the artwork must relate to poetry. Check in with January O’Neil with your proposals at january@masspoetry.org.   Last year’s festival had a wonderful visual installation – a [...]

“Recognition is the coin of the realm for a literary press,” says Jeffrey Levine, Editor-in-Chief of Massachusetts-based Tupelo Press. Right now Levine has a couple of big coins.  Of the twenty-two books assessed by the Academy of American Poets as “Notable” for 2011, two were published by Tupelo. Two may not seem a large number [...]

  Brookline is joining a select group of cities in Massachusetts as it seeks to name a poet laureate. This month the town selectmen voted unanimously to assign the task of finding the first candidate to the Brookline Arts Commission. The poet laureate, who must be a resident of Brookline, will serve a two-year term and will [...]

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