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Massachusetts Poetry Festival
More than 150 local and nationally known poets engage with thousands of New Englanders each year.

2015 FESTIVAL HEADLINERS
Rita Dove • Richard Blanco • Stephen Burt • Denise Duhamel • Nick Flynn • Regie Gibson • Jorie Graham • Richard Hoffman • Adrian Matejka • Marge Piercy • Rachel Wiley
The Massachusetts Poetry Festival showcases nearly 100 poetry readings and workshops, a small press and literary fair, panels, poetry slams, visual arts, and open-air performances.
Panel topics range broadly from the state of poetry, poetry and gender, book publishing, and modernism in contemporary art, to the Common Threads Reading, where contemporary poets with Massachusetts ties discuss their literary connections.
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More than 150 local and nationally known poets engage with thousands of New Englanders each year.
Admission buttons are available for purchase online until 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 30. After that, they can be purchased at the festival. Festival goers may pick up or purchase buttons starting May 1 at noon at the festival’s headquarters,125 Museum Place Mall, or either of the information booths along the pedestrian walkway (Essex Street), or in the lobby of the Hawthorne Hotel or Peabody Essex Museum while events are taking place in those venues. You can also pick up or purchase your button outside of the evening headline events.
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