Relive moments of the festival We thought you might enjoy the following videos and photos are from the festival. Danielle Legros Georges, a professor at Lesley College, shares words at the 2011 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Patrick Sylvain is a writer and professor at Brown University, and he recites “Cracked” at the Salem, MA at the Massachusetts [...]
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.
Student Day turned out to be “the coolest thing!”
A Newburyport student said that before Student Day at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival she had been excited that it meant a day away from school. But after the day, she felt the festival was “the coolest thing I’ve ever done during school hours. It was the best field trip ever!” The excitement carried over [...]
The scuttlebutt on the Mass Poetry Festival
For those of you who meant to attend this year’s Massachusetts Poetry Festival but didn’t, this story may make you despondent. You missed what many are calling a significant event. The response from attendees has drawn adjectives from “amazing” and “astounding” to Michael Mack’s statement: “You all have put Massachusetts at the center of [...]
Festival was a blast!
We hope you were in lovely Salem this weekend. Salem! – with its cobblestone streets and its open squares, its trollies with poets, its town hall filled with books and poetry magazines, its music, its fantastic museums brimming with poetry, its wonderful restaurants and its food, from elegant meals to just-right hotdogs. Who could have asked for [...]
Food for Festival Thought: Stephen Dunn and Frank Bidart (Sunday Poets) on PingPong and Hollywood
