Within 24 hours, twenty high school teachers signed up for all seats in the poetry retreat and professional development training program sponsored by MassPOP and the Boston Anthenaeum. The program, led by Jill McDonough and Maggie Dietz, takes place August 12 and 13. See why the event is so popular!
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The MassPOP Poetry Retreat for High School Teachers at the Boston Athenaeum
Festival Features a Discussion of Fissures in Contemporary Poetry
At the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, two distinguished poets look at the major rifts in contemporary poetic taste. Without denying their own viewpoints, Charles Bernstein and Frank Bidart look at why different poets have different ideas about what constitutes good poetry.
MassPOP Poet Residency Program in North Allston
The MassPOP poet residency program served the North Allston/Brighton area through an integrated yearlong program of intensive poet teaching sessions at the Gardner Pilot Academy, a reading series at the Honan-Allston Library, and a partnership with a local letterpress studio, Firefly Press, in the creation of a commemorative printed product for students and the community. [...]
POEM OF THE MOMENT:
by David R. Surette
John Connelly began each school day
by placing six Vanilla Wafers shrouded
in Saran Wrap on the left corner of his desk
with permission to eat them when needed.
At the Immaculate Conception
Grammar School, rules were rules, and eating
outside of lunch and recess was forbidden.....
MASS POETRY'S UPCOMING EVENTS: POETRY FESTIVAL APRIL 20-22 in SALEM; STUDENT DAY OF POETRY - MARCH 30; LOUDER THAN A BOMB - MAR. 30-APR. 1; COMMON THREADS for NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
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READINGS BELOW BY PINSKY, JACKSON & DIETZ - FRIDAY NIGHT LINE UP FOR MASS POETRY'S 2012 FESTIVAL, APRIL 20-22, IN SALEM, MA
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- Major Jackson at Virginia Festival of the Book 2010
- Runtime
- 6:20
- Description
- Major Jackson
- Title
- Readings by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz
- Runtime
- 45:54
- Description
- The Favorite Poem Project, in cooperation with Bos...
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- BOSTON HERALD INTERVIEWS POET LAUREATE ROBERT PINSKY
- Runtime
- 3:48
- Description
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- CommonThreads: Poems for national poetry month January 28, 2012
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