We are just 15 days from the state-wide opening events of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival.  Many of our writing workshops on Saturday are sold out; if you’re interested, get your tickets now and tell your friends to do the same. The Poetry Fest Sessions in Cambridge on Sunday evening has almost half of its 100 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]