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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Oct 17 2026
- Time: All Day
Boston Book Festival (October 17, 2026)
Mass Poetry will be back at the Boston Book Festival, October 17, 2026! Stop by our tent at Copley Plaza to celebrate the landing of Sonnet BOOM in Boston and plan to attend workshops and readings in the Mass Poetry Poetry Track — check out the schedule below!
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Hourly Schedule
Mass Poetry Track & Events at the 2026 Boston Book Festival
- 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
- All These Words for Love (For You) with Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
- at Goethe-Institut, 1st Floor
- 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
- A Reading with Richard Hoffman & Lloyd Schwartz, Moderated by Danielle Jones
- at Goethe-Institut, 1st Floor
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
- Celebrating the Mass Book Awards, Moderated by Courtney Andree
- Featuring Laura Creste, Patrick Donnelly, and Carla Panciera at Goethe-Institut, 1st Fl
- 03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
- Poetry off the Page, Moderated by Amanda Shea
- Featuring Essmaa Litim, Daiana “Dexter” Garcia, and René Manuel Ramos at Boston Public Library Copley Branch
- 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
- Poems & Pints, Reading with Carson Jordan, Kirun Kapur, Tomas Q. Morin, and Clay Ventre
- at Room & Board
- 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
- Sonnet BOOM Launch
- Visit our Poetry Tent at Copley Plaza!