We want to encourage everyone who comes to Lowell on Saturday to check in at Festival Central at the National Park Visitor Center 246 Market St. As an added incentive to check in, everyone who does will be entered into a raffle. The  Poetry Box will contain: 1. A gift certificate from Grub Street entitling [...]

For Saturday’s programs in Lowell we are encouraging people to take public transportation if you can. Trains leave regularly from North Station and go through Medford and Woburn ( the stop there is right off of Rt. 93 just past the intersection with 128)  You can get the Saturday schedule of the Commuter rail to [...]

Festival Schedule Thurs (15th) Fri (16th) Sat (17th) Sun (18th) View all events We continue our efforts to briefly highlight the amazing array of readings, workshops and performances that make up the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Here are some tastes of what is being offered in Lowell on Saturday. You may not have found these [...]

This year on Saturday afternoon the Festival is offering a series of small, very hands on workshops that are limited to 15 people per session. All of them will be at the Mogan Center. They are more varied than last year. We will consider running more sessions if they are oversubscribed – and if we [...]