The following tribute was written by Claire Keyes. Have you met Adrienne Rich? people would ask me when they learned I had published a book about her poetry, The Aesthetics of Power (U Georgia Press). Yes, I’d reply and tried to convey the pleasure of that meeting, sometime in the late eighties in Salem,Massachusetts.  I [...]
About Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Malone has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship grant in poetry. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Cortland Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry Northwest. The poem published in the Beloit Poetry Journal was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook All Waters Run to Lethe was recently published by Finishing Line Press.A Volunteer Reminisces About the Festival: Jamie Faulkner
I have never thought of myself as a poet. Sure as a teenager I scribbled words on napkins hoping someone would discover them—as they discovered Langston Hughes’. I wrote songs about ex-boyfriends and love rhymes to the ones in my dreams. But I knew I was no poet. I knew I could write—but not poetry. [...]
At the All-Star Slam at Victoria Station
The Boston Poetry Slam collaborated with the fourth annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival on April 21, 2012, for the All-Star Poetry Slam. On the wharf at Victoria Station in Salem, eight all-star Boston slammers gathered to see who would garner top honors in the Festival’s first invitational poetry slam event. The winner of the night was Lizard [...]
3Rivers Arts Presents Climbing PoeTree’s HURRICANE SEASON
Alixa and Naima, two soul sisters, form Climbing PoeTree. Their acclaimed performance is composed of dual-voice poems, award winning multimedia and theater that explore diverse themes, including: healing from state and personal violence, environmental justice, civil rights, spirituality, global politics, and woman’s empowerment. Here’s where they are appearing locally: Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video [...]
Food for Festival Thought: Stephen Dunn and Frank Bidart (Sunday Poets) on PingPong and Hollywood
