Mass Poetry Announces Salem as 2011 Massachusetts Poetry Festival Destination

Excerpts from the press release issued today:

Mass Poetry has chosen historic Salem as the location for the third Massachusetts Poetry Festival to be held on May 13 and 14, 2011. A two-day festival features poetry readings, slams, workshops, a day of poetry for high school students, and a small press fair highlighting published poets.

“The Massachusetts Poetry Festival will bring a blizzard of verbal beauty to Salem, a city with a rich literary history and vibrant writing community. It will connect generations, and it will give the city and university a leadership role in building culture in the Commonwealth,” said J.D. Scrimgeour, poet and Professor of English at Salem State University. “The Poetry Festival is evidence of the vitality of the fundamental, central art of poetry,” said Robert Pinsky, the former Poet Laureate of the U.S. and the Honorary Chair of the Poetry Festival.

Read the full press release at the Mass Poetry website, and be sure to sign up for updates.

Comments

Maureen said…
I've visited Salem. Quite a cool place to hold a poetry festival.
Jim K. said…
Great place to walk around.
Fantastic museum, really
nice walking mall.
The last mile in is the trick.
I need to learn alternate ways in.
(to that left hook on 114)

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