It’s almost here — the day we’ve been planning, building, antiscipating! The Massachusetts Poetry Festival begins Friday (April 20)  and runs through the weekend in Salem, MA. And here are ten reasons you should be there: The Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Attend the Massachusetts Poetry Festival 10.  Anne Bradstreet slept here! 9.    If the [...]

This Sunday’s Boston Globe reports on the Common Thread’s goal of getting 10,000 people in Massachusetss to read and discuss nine poems this month. Mass Poetry is sponsoring the initiative again this year, with book clubs, libraries, senior centers, book stores, schools, and churches presenting reading opportunties, including one at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Check our videos [...]

When Meg Winikates was a young girl standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon after a guide had led her family around the monumental piece of nature, she voiced her life goal. “I want to be like that,” she said, indicating the guide. And so she has achieved that goal in a slightly different [...]

The following story is from Amanda Torres, School Programs Coordinator, Mass Poetry. The largest youth poetry slam in the country (Louder Than A Bomb) has made it to Massachusetts. On April 13th at The Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (85 Newton St, Boston) 7:00 – 10:00pm (doors open at 6:30), the four highest scoring [...]