If you were at the Mass Poetry Festival, you may be like me — all mixed up in exhaustion, exhilaration, and depression — it’s another year before another Mass Poetry Festival. But I can also turn the direction of my mind just a wee bit, and it is bubbling again from the conviviality and joy of hours and hours [...]
Friday — Impressions of the First Day at the Poetry Festival
We can’t give you a complete picture of the first day of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, but we hope to tease you with the excitement so that you’ll come on the other days. This Friday thousands of poetry lovers walked the cobblestoned streets of Salem, going from the Peabody Essex Museum to the House of Seven Gables [...]
Headliners and Other Poetry Lovers at the MPF!
A social media for poets and poetry lovers! Today it begins! Not only are you going to see and hear some of the best poets in the country (see our list below), you are going to meet people who — given your mutual interest in poetry – could become your lifelong friends. If you’ve been to our [...]
Openings for Poetry Readers Aboard the Poetry Trolleys and Train
Here’s a fantastic opportunity for poets willing to recite their poems to an audience of poetry lovers aboard the Poetry Trolleys that are offering rides from venue to venue during the Massachusetts Poetry FestivaL We’re looking for poets willing to perform on those trolleys this Saturday, April 21, from 10:00 to 3:00. Each poet does a [...]
POEM OF THE MOMENT:
by Frank Bidart
What none knows is when, not if.
Now that your life nears its end
when you turn back what you see
is ruin. You think, It is a prison. No,
it is a vast resonating chamber in
which each thing you say or do is
new, but the same. What none knows is...
Read the complete poem here.
Or hear Frank Bidart read Saturday afternoon at the festival in Salem.
Or study this poem as part of Common Threads--a National Poetry month celebration.
MORE ON THE MASS POETRY FESTIVAL
- Festival Announcements
- New Addition to Saturday Headliners
- The MPF Schedule of Events Is Now Online!
- The Festival Needs Your Help — Volunteer!
- Bidart, Collins and Dunn Headline Sunday Afternoon at MPF
- Small press fair: a place to discover and share
- Friday night headliners for MPF: Pinsky, Jackson and Dietz
- 2012 Massachusetts Poetry Festival–April 20-22
Local Poetry Events
- The Poetry Session At O'Shea's more » on May 17 2012 19:00
in 08:01 hours. - Greater Brockton Society For Poetry And The Arts more » on May 19 2012 14:00
in 2 days and 03:01 hours. - "The Mixi N' Music" more » on May 24 2012 18:30
in 7 days and 07:31 hours. - Poetry At The Main St Cafe more » on May 30 2012 18:30
in 13 days and 07:31 hours. - Poet's Corner Open Mic more » on May 31 2012 19:00
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Food for Festival Thought: Stephen Dunn and Frank Bidart (Sunday Poets) on PingPong and Hollywood
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- Stephen Dunn - Poets in Person - Episode 2
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- 3:15
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- The Cortland Review presents Poets in Person: Epis...
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- James Franco and Frank Bidart - mausoleum (clip 4)
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- 1:50
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- A talk with James Franco and poet Frank Bidart
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- Massachusetts Poetry Festival Trailer (2011)
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- 2:54
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- Watch this video highlighting some of the wonderfu...
- Creating a Poetry Community for Students May 15, 2012
- New Poetry Craft Book by Annie Finch May 7, 2012
- Can’t Get Enough? May 4, 2012
- MPF Videos: First — Louder Than a Bomb Slam … May 3, 2012
- MPF Videos: Second — Bad Poetry May 3, 2012
- Experiencing Slam Withdrawal? April 19, 2012
- Can’t Get Enough? May 4, 2012
- MPF Videos: Second — Bad Poetry May 3, 2012
- MPF Videos: First — Louder Than a Bomb Slam … May 3, 2012
- At the All-Star Slam at Victoria Station April 29, 2012
