Mass Poetry - Massachusetts Poetry Festival - Poetry Outreach

Alixa and Naima, two soul sisters, form Climbing PoeTree. Their acclaimed performance is composed of dual-voice poems, award winning multimedia and theater that explore diverse themes, including: healing from state and personal violence, environmental justice, civil rights, spirituality, global politics, and woman’s empowerment. Here’s where they are appearing locally: Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video [...]

Second in a series of what people thought about the festival Pushcart prize winner Jill McDonough’s first book is Habeas Corpus.  The recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford’s Stegner program, she teaches in prisons for Boston University. Her work [...]

J.D. Scrimgeour, our guest author, was a volunteer for the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. He is also the author of the poetry collection,The Last Miles, and Themes For English B: A Professor’s Education In  and Out of Class,. In 2010, under the name “Confluence,” he and musician Philip Swanson released a CD of poetry and music with MSR Classics, [...]

At the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Richard Hoffman participated in Saturday’s panel discussion titled “The State of Poetry.” He has given us his well-received manuscript from that presentation to publish.      Good afternoon. Let me start with a poem I wrote for a fellow poet, Baron Wormser. Baron and I are about the same age and [...]