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Workshop: “Awakening the Now: Poetry and the Practice of Mindfulness”

With Patti Russo & Steven Durost
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
3 – 4:30 PM
Life Alive Urban Oasis and Café
Mindfulness means being fully awake and fully aware. It means experiencing the richness of the present moment instead of analyzing the past or worrying about the future. Using the poetry of Mary Oliver, William Stafford and others we’ll explore how [...]

Poetry & Discussion: “Poetry and Our Times”

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
3 – 4 PM
Whistler House Museum of Art
This informative discussion features Martin Espada, Richard Hoffman, and Ann Killough discussing the role of poetry in our communities and the poet’s capabilities to affect social, political, and cultural change.
 

Kids Workshop: “Calling All Poetry Detectives!”

With Karen Kline
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
9:30 – 10:30 AM & 1 – 2 PM
Pollard Memorial Library
Help find a Poetic Packet! Look for an envelope hidden within the Poetry Festival area and then help reveal our Mystery Poem. DO NOT open your envelope please! After the envelopes have been opened and the Mystery has been solved, join [...]

Film Screening – “Polis is this: Charles Olson & the Persistence of Place” (2007)

With guest filmmaker Henry Ferrini
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
2 – 3:30 PM
Lowell National Historical Park Visitors Center Theater
From Postman to the Postmodern, Charles Olson remains today an original American master. The enigmatic and hulking six-foot eight Harvard historian drifts back to the hard-luck New England fishing port of his boyhood summers. There he forges transcendent vision that [...]