Every year, Mass Poetry brings together professor-nominated undergraduate poets from more than 15 colleges across the Greater Boston area. With the guidance of a faculty mentor, each student hones and revises an original poem before performing their work at our intercollegiate showcase. The event also features a keynote address by a local poet.
Mass Poetry will publish a collective anthology featuring poems by all participating students, which will debut at the post-show reception. The reception will be catered and include photo opportunities. This event offers college poets an incredible opportunity to connect with peers, gain performance experience, learn about post-graduate artistic life, and see their work in print. We are grateful to our university partners for their continued collaboration and extend special thanks to Boston College, the program’s former host.
In addition to the student poems, we’re excited to introduce a new feature in this year’s anthology: art submissions! Undergraduate artists will now have the chance to submit their work for consideration as the anthology’s cover art. More information about the submission process will be available in the coming months.
Stay tuned for details about the 2026 Intercollegiate Showcase! In the meantime, we invite you to explore selected poems from past editions below.
Check out the past Anthologies!
Vieira, Juno Soleil. “an ode to the bear on my wall.” Communal Resilience, Mass Poetry, 2025, p. 18.
Araujo,Patricio Pino. “love as a nameless thing.” Future in Verse, Mass Poetry, 2024, p. 5.