Browsing all posts in September, 2009.

October Massachusetts Literary Festivals

October is filled with 4  great literary festival in addition to the Mass. Poetry Festival:
October 1st and 2nd: Lowell Celebrates Kerouac with a pub crawl, tours and readings www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org
October 23rd and 24th : the Robert Frost Festival in Lawrence.  http://www.frostfoundation.org/
Saturday October 24th :the Boston Book Festival with Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, noir writer Dennis Lehane and 75 [...]

Calling all High School Poets

We have some very exciting opportunities for high school students. The Friday high school poetry program has openings for another school and a few more students. The program — beginning at 9:30 — will be chock full of workshops led by famous poets, poetry games and exercises, and a coffee house venue where students can read [...]

It’s not all free …

Dear poetry supporters,
Two urgent updates about the poetry festival: Unlike the other Festival events, tickets for the Amherst Launch event and the Sunday workshops at the Boston Children’s Museum are not free. The Amherst Cinema and Boston Children’s Museum will charge their normal ticket prices at the door. (Or, in the case of the Amherst [...]

Urgent Legislative Action — for Poetry!

Dear Friend of Poetry –
The Massachusetts Poetry Outreach Project ( MassPOP) is the creator of the Poetry Festival along with other efforts to support the poets of Massachusetts. We rarely send an email to our whole list about anything other than the Festival – and we will continue to avoid flooding your inbox with emails [...]