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The MassPOP Poetry Retreat for High School Teachers at the Boston Athenaeum

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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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.

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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. [...]

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