Friday March 30th through Sunday April 1st Massachusetts Institute of Technology will play host to Massachusetts’ first Louder Than a Bomb festival. The festival, founded by Anna West and Kevin Coval in 2001, originated in Chicago. It is the largest youth poetry slam in the world. The Louder Than a Bomb festival allows youths [...]
Louder Than a Bomb: a slam festival that expands on Student Day of 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 Frank Bidart
What none knows is when, not if.
Now that your life nears its end
when you turn back what you see
is ruin. You think, It is a prison. No,
it is a vast resonating chamber in
which each thing you say or do is
new, but the same. What none knows is...
Read the complete poem here.
Or hear Frank Bidart read Saturday afternoon at the festival in Salem.
Or study this poem as part of Common Threads--a National Poetry month celebration.
MORE ON THE MASS POETRY FESTIVAL
- Festival Announcements
- New Addition to Saturday Headliners
- The MPF Schedule of Events Is Now Online!
- The Festival Needs Your Help — Volunteer!
- Bidart, Collins and Dunn Headline Sunday Afternoon at MPF
- Small press fair: a place to discover and share
- Friday night headliners for MPF: Pinsky, Jackson and Dietz
- 2012 Massachusetts Poetry Festival–April 20-22
Local Poetry Events
- The Poetry Session At O'Shea's more » on May 17 2012 19:00
in 08:44 hours. - Greater Brockton Society For Poetry And The Arts more » on May 19 2012 14:00
in 2 days and 03:44 hours. - "The Mixi N' Music" more » on May 24 2012 18:30
in 7 days and 08:14 hours. - Poetry At The Main St Cafe more » on May 30 2012 18:30
in 13 days and 08:14 hours. - Poet's Corner Open Mic more » on May 31 2012 19:00
in 14 days and 08:44 hours.
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Food for Festival Thought: Stephen Dunn and Frank Bidart (Sunday Poets) on PingPong and Hollywood
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- Stephen Dunn - Poets in Person - Episode 2
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- 3:15
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- The Cortland Review presents Poets in Person: Epis...
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- James Franco and Frank Bidart - mausoleum (clip 4)
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- 1:50
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- A talk with James Franco and poet Frank Bidart
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- Massachusetts Poetry Festival Trailer (2011)
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- 2:54
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- Watch this video highlighting some of the wonderfu...
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