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Post posthaste to poetry of place!

Brand this site Massachusetts to the core! Post poems about our cities and towns – poems you’ve written yourself or those written by others. A dot on the map will indicate which communities that have been represented by at least one poem. There’s no strict limit on how long a poem can be, but generally speaking [...]

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MPF participant David Ferry awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize

Many poetry lovers have read David Ferry’s translations of Virgil and Horace as well as the  Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh. And many have read his own poetry, for which the Poetry Foundation last month awarded him the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. (See one of his poems below.) Ferry, Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English atWellesley College, is  now affiliated with Suffolk University [...]

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A tour of Salem’s literary history

To celebrate the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and Salem’s poetic heritage, Salem historian, author and history columnist Jim McAllister, will offer a lively and entertaining walking tour, “Poets, Poetry and Poetic Places in Salem.” The tour will meet on Friday, May 13th at the main entrance to the Salem Visitor Center on New Liberty Street across [...]

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What’s the Buzz? — what’s up with the festival

  The Buzz, a new feature of masspoetry.org, is aggregating stories others have published in newsletters, blogs, newspapers, and websites about Mass Poetry and the festival. Check back often. We’ll have new material — especially if you send me links to your stories and to ones you’ve read. Send to jackie@masspoetry.com. Interview with Patricia Smith. This is an [...]

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