As the 2012 Massachusetts Poetry Festival approaches, its volunteers kick into gear. Samantha Milowsky, a Somerville resident and founder of Amethyst Arsenic, is now in charge of organizing the Small Press fair for this year’s festival. In keeping with last year, the 2012 Small Press fair will also include literary magazines. Currently, we have 28 [...]

The first evening of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival — Friday, April 20 — will feature three exciting poets: former poet laureate, Robert Pinsky; Poetry Editor for the Harvard Review, Major Jackson; and former director of the Favorite Poem Project, Maggie Dietz. Robert Pinsky Pinsky’s first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by [...]