With the 2011 Massachusetts Poetry Festival slowly fading into a wonderful three-day memory, it is important to acknowledge the role the Salem Poetry Seminar alumni played in helping the event to be a success. The Salem Poetry Seminar, sponsored by Salem State University and held in 2000, 2007, 2008 and 2010, has each year offered 12 poets enrolled in colleges from all over Massachusetts a week-long chance to expand on their craft.