Schedule

For venue locations, see the Map page

Dates:

May 12 2011 | May 13 2011 | May 14 2011 | April 20 2012 | April 21 2012

Thursday, May 12 2011


9:00am - 9:00pm		The Poetry Dress The Poetry Dress -- Roost

7:00pm - 8:30pm		Tom Sexton, Brian Brodeur, & Poetry from Public Colleges Tom Sexton, Brian Brodeur -- Ellison Campus Center, Salem State University

Friday, May 13 2011


9:00am - 9:00pm		The Poetry Dress The Poetry Dress -- Roost

2:30pm - 3:45pm		Poetry Walking Tour with Historian Jim McAllister Jim McAllister -- Visitors Center

4:15pm - 5:15pm		Anne Bradstreet: America's First Poet Charlotte Gordon -- Salem Athenaeum
		Celebrating Elizabeth Bishop's 100th Birthday Lloyd Schwartz -- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium
		Consider This-Dramatic Reading Molly Lynn Watt, Dan Lynn Watt, Afaa Michael Weaver -- Gulu Gulu
		The Rhythm of Resistance and Desire Richard Hoffman, Robert Gibbons -- The Gathering

5:30pm - 6:30pm		Boston Review Poets Daniel Pritchard, Katie Peterson, Stephen Sturgeon -- Gulu Gulu
		Lorca - His Poems and His Songs: A Melopoeia Ann Tucker, John Tavano, Rhina P. Espaillat -- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium
		North Shore Poets in the Round J.D. Scrimgeour, Colleen Michaels, Claire Keyes, Jean Monahan, Jennifer Jean, Dawn Paul, Kevin Carey, Julie Batten, January Gill O’Neil -- Salem Athenaeum
		Salamander Reading: Two Editors & Three Contributing Writers Jennifer Barber, Pam Bernard, Simeon Berry, Valerie Duff, Gwendolyn Jensen, Heather Madden -- The Gathering

7:30pm - 9:30pm		Friday Headline Reading: Brian Turner, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Jericho Brown, & Enzo Surin Brian Turner, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Enzo Surin -- Peabody Essex Museum, Atrium

9:30pm - 10:45pm		Intercollegiate Poetry Slam Leah Nielsen, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz -- Gulu Gulu

Saturday, May 14 2011


9:00am - 9:00pm		The Poetry Dress The Poetry Dress -- Roost

10:00am - 11:00am		Poetrying: An Introduction to Poetry for Young Adults Hannah Baker-Siroty -- Peabody Essex Museum, Art Studio
		The Art of Critique and the Development of Craft Alice Kociemba, Rhina P. Espaillat, Susan Donnelly, Lauren Wolk -- Colonial Hall
		The Life of a Poem: Taking Poems Beyond the Page Wes (Mongo) Jolley, Kevin Carey, Carl Carlsen, J.D. Scrimgeour, Brian Brodeur -- The Gathering

10:00am - 11:45am		Louder than A Bomb Film Showing -- Cinema Salem Screening Room

10:15am - 10:44am		Poetry Train -- North Station

10:30am - 6:00pm		Poetry Trolley -- The Visitors Center

11:00am - 11:20am		Apollonius of Tyana Sarah Slifer, Mark Wagner, Elote Villanueva, Adam Morrison Zelny, Matt Swift -- Main Stage at Derby Square

11:00am - 12:00pm		Favorite Poem Reading Ravi Shankar, Congressman John Tierney, State Rep. John Keenan, Mayor Kimberley Driscoll, Martin Edmunds, Vincent Dorio, Girl Talk Theatre -- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium

11:45am - 12:30pm		Louder Than A Bomb Meet the Stars Discussion Anna West, Adam Gottlieb -- Cinema Salem Café

12:00pm - 12:20pm		Box Lunch: Jazz & Poetry Performance Derek Beckvold, Pete Negroponte, Simon Hanes, Andy Allen, Fausto Sierakowski, Ruth Lepson -- Main Stage at Derby Square

12:00pm - 1:00pm		Carpenter Poets of Boston Vincent Dorio, Brooks Wright, Joe Bergen, Bill Thibodeau, John Payne, Jerry Abelow -- Peabody Essex Museum, Art Studio
		Meter Matters: A Reading of Contemporary Metrical Poetry Bill Coyle, Ernest Hilbert, Tom Sexton, Rhina P. Espaillat, David Yezzi -- Colonial Hall

12:00pm - 1:30pm		A Poetic Feast with the Bagel Bards Lawrence Kessenich, Doug Holder, Harris Gardner, Kim Triedman, Irene Koronas, Kathleen Spivack -- Coven of Salem Café
		Cave Canem Reading Jarita Davis, John Murillo, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, January Gill O’Neil -- House of Seven Gables, #2
		Free Write Your Way to Poetry Barbara Helfgott Hyett -- House of Seven Gables, #1
		Grub Street Poem Generator Workshop #1 KL Pereira -- Green Land Cafe
		The Unwritten Poem: Erasure and Found Poems Angela Voras-Hills -- House of Seven Gables, Hooper House #2
		Translate Poetry—Knowing Only English! Mark Schafer -- House of Seven Gables, Hooper House #1
		U35: a Reading of Apostate Youth Daniel Pritchard, Tess Taylor, James Byrne, James Stotts, Laura Healy -- Salem Athenaeum
		What We Want, How We Read: Independent Publishers Speak to Emerging Poets Jim Kates, Gloria Mindock, Cynthia Brakett-Vincent, Teresa Carson, Susan Kan -- Old Town Hall, Upstairs

12:00pm - 4:00pm		Marvelous Marginalia Stacy Thomas-Vickory, Sarah Smith -- Main Stage at Derby Square

12:00pm - 5:00pm		Poets with New Books: A Sequential Reading Various -- Omen

12:00pm - 6:00pm		Small Press & Literary Magazine Fair -- Old Town Hall

12:15pm - 12:44pm		Poetry Train -- North Station

12:15pm - 1:15pm		Poetry & Dissent, Practice & Pitfalls Richard Hoffman, Greg Delanty, Linda McCarriston -- Phillips Library

12:15pm - 1:45pm		Speaking Pictures: Beyond Ekphrastic Workshop with Susan Rich Susan Rich -- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium

12:30pm - 12:50pm		Poetry Out Loud State Finalists -- Main Stage at Derby Square

1:00pm - 1:20pm		CD Collins & Rockabetty CD Collins -- Main Stage at Derby Square

1:00pm - 1:45pm		Meter Matters: A Roundtable Discussion of Contemporary Metrical Poetry Bill Coyle, Ernest Hilbert, Rhina P. Espaillat, Tom Sexton, David Yezzi -- Colonial Hall

1:00pm - 2:30pm		Best of the Brookline Poetry Series Aimée Sands, Ann Killough, Michael Mack, Bert Stern, Susan Roberts, Frannie Lindsay, Alice Kociemba -- The Gathering
		Haiku Reading by Members of the Boston Haiku Society Raffael de Gruttola, Jeanne Martin, Karen Klein, Sonia Coman, Eduard Andrei, Lawrence Rungren -- Peabody Essex Museum, Japanese Art Gallery

1:30pm - 1:50pm		Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye -- Main Stage at Derby Square

1:30pm - 2:45pm		The Heardword Poetry Presentation Regie Gibson, Anna West, Jade Sylvan, Amanda Torres, Alex Charalambides, Ayano Strickland -- Phillips Library

1:45pm - 2:45pm		Becoming the Other: Writing the Dramatic Monologue Kat Good-Schiff, KL Pereira -- House of Seven Gables, Hooper House #2
		Forgotten Voices: History in Verse Eve Rifkah, R. Joyce Heon, Teresa Cader -- House of Seven Gables, #2
		Magazine Panel Daniel Pritchard, George Kovach, James Byrne, Stephen Sturgeon, Christina Thompson -- Old Town Hall, Upstairs

1:45pm - 3:15pm		Tapestry of Voices Celebrates Poet's Voices Past and Present Harris Gardner, Lainie Senechal, Danielle Legros Georges, Diana Sáenz, Joanna Nealon, Walter Howard -- House of Seven Gables, #1

2:00pm - 2:20pm		Steve Almond Steve Almond -- Main Stage at Derby Square

2:00pm - 3:00pm		Ancient Tunes, New Words Jennifer Barber, David Ferry, George Kalogeris, Fred Marchant -- Colonial Hall
		Mark Doty Presentation on Still Life with Oysters and Lemon Mark Doty -- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium

2:00pm - 3:30pm		How to Be a Good Public Reader of Your Own Poetry Patrick Donnelly -- House of Seven Gables, Hooper House #1
		Kim Richey Workshop on Songwriting Kim Richey -- Salem Athenaeum

2:15pm - 2:44am		Poetry Train -- North Station

2:30pm - 3:00pm		Boston Typewriter Orchestra Boston Typewriter Orchestra -- Main Stage at Derby Square

2:30pm - 3:30pm		Haiku Writing Workshop Jeanne Martin -- Peabody Essex Museum, Japanese Art Gallery

3:00pm - 4:00pm		Bad Poetry with Steve Almond Steve Almond -- The Gathering
		Getting Your MFA? Danielle Jones-Pruett, Mike Young, Keith Leonard, Enzo Surin, Angela Voras-Hills, Linwood Rumney, Melissa J. Varnavas -- Old Town Hall, Upstairs
		Project Voice Workshop Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye -- House of Seven Gables, #2
		Translation: The House of Many Windows Kristine Doll, Bill Coyle, Miriam Margala -- Green Land Cafe

3:00pm - 4:15pm		Page Meets Stage Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Phillips Library

3:15pm - 3:35pm		Fishwives Music Sarah Eide -- Main Stage at Derby Square

3:15pm - 4:15pm		From West to East: A Memorious Magazine reading Tess Taylor, Leslie Harrison, Gail Mazur, David Rivard, Adam Tessier, Rebecca Morgan Frank -- Colonial Hall

3:15pm - 4:30pm		Kundiman: Love Songs for the Peabody Essex Joseph O. Legaspi, Ching-In Chen, Jee Leong Koh, Bushra Rehman, Purvi Shah, Yim Tan Wong -- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium

3:30pm - 4:45pm		BEG, BORROW, AND STEAL: Perugia Press Poets Re-Define These Words as They Read and Talk About What Influences Their Writing Susan Kan, Nancy K. Pearson, Frannie Lindsay, Carol Edelstein, Melanie Braverman, Faye George, Gail Thomas, Janet E. Aalfs -- House of Seven Gables, #1

3:45pm - 4:00pm		Cole Rodriguez Cole Rodriguez -- Main Stage at Derby Square

3:45pm - 4:45pm		The Prose Poem as Haibun Gian Lombardo, Raffael de Gruttola -- Peabody Essex Museum, Japanese Art Gallery

4:00pm - 5:00pm		Dot Four: Songs of Experience Sandra Kohler, Meg Campbell, Jean Knox, Cornelia Veenendaal -- Coven of Salem Café
		Patricia Smith Workshop Patricia Smith -- Salem Athenaeum
		Patricia Smith Workshop Waiting List -- Salem Athenaeum

4:15pm - 5:15pm		Grub Street Poem Generator Workshop #2 Janaka Stucky -- House of Seven Gables, Hooper House #2

4:30pm - 5:30pm		The Life of a Poet Jennifer Jean, Doug Holder, Susan Rich, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ravi Shankar -- House of Seven Gables, #2

4:30pm - 5:45pm		Follow the Fellows: a Massachusetts Cultural Council Reading Ben Berman, John Canaday, Patrick Donnelly, Regie Gibson, Sharon Howell, Rosann Kozlowski, Leslie Williams -- Phillips Library
		X.J. Kennedy & the Light Brigade Barb Crane, Bob Clawson, X.J. Kennedy, Joan Kimball, Amy Woods -- Colonial Hall

5:00pm - 6:15pm		Poets for Haiti Kim Triedman, Fred Marchant, Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell, Jean-Dany Joachim, Danielle Legros Georges, Patrick Sylvain, Afaa Michael Weaver -- The Gathering

7:30pm - 9:00pm		Saturday Headline Reading : Mark Doty, Kim Richey, & Patricia Smith Mark Doty, Kim Richey, Patricia Smith, Elisa Gabbert -- First Universalist Society of Salem

Friday, April 20 2012


5:15pm - 6:15pm		X.J. Kennedy & the Light Brigade X.J. Kennedy, Bob Clawson, Barbara Lydecker Crane, Joan Alice Wood Kimball, Amy Woods -- Peabody Essex Museum Bartlet

Saturday, April 21 2012


12:15pm - 1:15pm		Writing on Freedom and Confinement Elizabeth McKim -- Peabody Essex Museum Art Studio A

3:00pm - 4:00pm		Youth Ekphrastic Poetry Gayle Heney -- Peabody Essex Museum, Art Studio

4:00pm - 5:30am		Youth Poetry Slam Simone Beaubian -- Old Town Hall, Upstairs