This program is back by popular demand for Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2012. Offer your worst poem for fun and eduation at badpoetry@masspoetry.org. By which we mean: calling all poets. Let’s face it even the best poets have some cringe-worthy verse hidden away in the archives. Maybe it was a birthday poem written to your mom when [...]

Salem is willing and excited to accommodate those who attend the Massachusetts Poetry Festival on May 12, 13,  and 14. And there’ll be trains and trolleys to get you from one place to another.  Check below to find a list of hotels and inns as well as restaurants that offer special priviledges to Festival attendees. Hotels [...]

At the Massachusetts Poetry Festival on May 12, 13 and 14, downtown Salem and Salem State University are going to be packed with festivities.  In addition workshops, panel discussions, readings, small press fairs, music, and slam competitions, each evening will culminate with headliner attractions. Thursday Night Headliner Salem State will be honoring an alumnus, Tom Sexton, the [...]