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Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2012

Fourth Massachusetts Poetry Festival will be held on April 20, 21, and 22 in Salem. Each year the festival grows and new features are added. Come back to this page regularly as the festival takes shape and headliners are announced. We’ll be presenting panels, workshops, music and poetry, songwriting, dance and poetry, poetry installations, small [...]

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Student Festivals

Here’s everything you want to know about the festivals Mass Poetry sponsors for students: Student Day of Poetry and the slam festival, Louder Than a Bomb. . . . Student Day of Poetry — March 30 The Student Day of Poetry, sponsored by Mass Poetry, is separate this year from the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and will take place [...]

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CommonThreads: Poems for National Poetry Month

  Back by popular demand, Mass Poetry offers its second annual Common Threads group reading and discussion program for April, National Poetry Month. The texts of the poems, videos of the poets reading their own work and poems from those no longer with us, plus a discussion guide, questions, and links will be available on [...]

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Your invitation to volunteer for the Mass Poetry Festival

INVITATION If you are a poet, volunteer If you are a word weaver, a dream maker, a storyteller, A poetry enthusiast, literacy advocator, community builder… If you’re a friend of Calliope, come join us For we have a festival to create. Come join! Come join!             The Mass Poetry Festival is looking for enthusiastic volunteers [...]

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