We are continuing to plan this year’s poetry festival, and we have some exciting developments to share.  Last year’s festival was exclusively in Lowell.  This year we will not only have an even larger presence in Lowell, with more programs and activities and poems, but we are also planning kick-off events on the evening of [...]

The 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival will highlight small press publishing to show its importance to the craft of poetry — without a small press culture, there is no sustainable American Poetic Tradition. The editors and publishers of 25 different presses and magazines will have their books and journals for sale and be available to “talk [...]