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12:15am EDT

All Day Event - Improbable Places Audio Tour OnlineJ.D. Scrimgeour • Kevin Carey • Dawn Paul • Eileen Cleary • January Gill O'Neil • Catherine Fahey • Hugo Pellinen • R.G. Evans • Shari Caplan • Ariella Ruth • Susanna Baird • Colleen Michaels All Day Event - Online Ekphrastic Gallery Premiere Online All Day Event - Salem Poem Walk Online All Day Event - Small Press Fair Online

9:00am EDT

Exploring Poetry Through Yoga with Linda Spolidoro OnlineLinda Spolidoro Found in Translation: Back and Forth between English and Mandarin OnlineRodger Martin • Xinrui Jiang

10:15am EDT

Ecopoetry: Words in Balance OnlineFred Marchant • Deborah Leipziger • Jennifer Barber • Myronn Hardy Veteran Poets Reading Veteran Poets OnlineKaren Skolfield • Terry Farish • Jimmy Pappas • Rodger Martin TEACHER TRACK: Teaching Anti-Racist Poetry OnlineMatthew E. Henry The Muse of the Cards: Tarot and Poetry OnlineCatherine Fahey

11:30am EDT

Translating Haiti OnlineAidan Rooney • Emmelie Prophète • Eddy Toussaint Tontongi • Doumafis Lafontan TEACHER TRACK: Poetry Like Bread: Using Poetry to Enhance Critical Skills OnlineLauren Marie Schmidt To Play is to Collaborate is to Queer: A Workshop OnlineChen Chen • Sam Herschel Wein "Called Back": A Virtual Emily Dickinson Poetry Walk OnlineElizabeth Bolton • Lori Desrosiers • Hannah Baker Saltmarsh • Kate Godin • Bonnie Larson Staiger • Robin Long • Siri Palreddy • Peter Schmitt • Don Skoog • Rebecca Starks

12:45pm EDT

2020 Re-Do Celebration Ceremony OnlineLillian-Yvonne Bertram • Toni Bee • Heather Treseler • Dur-e-Maknoon Ahmed • Susan Roney-O'Brien • Lesléa Newman • Kip Wilson • Marjorie Maddox • Karina Borowicz • Stephan Delbos • Maru Colbert • Elizabeth S. Wolf • Joshua Coben • Margot Douaihy

2:15pm EDT

Voices in (Self-)Translation OnlineMaría Luisa Arroyo • María José Giménez • Jean-Dany Joachim • Rhina Espaillat Sheyr Jangi: Lineages of Survival OnlineZohra Saed • Aurora Masum-Javed • Purvi Shah • Sahar Muradi Poetry in Libraries/Libraries in Poetry, sponsored by Massachusetts Center for the Book OnlineKirun Kapur • Amy Rhilinger • Jarita Davis • Rob Casper • Sean Thibodeau TEACHER TRACK: Poets Teaching Poetry in the Virtual Classroom OnlineOlivia Lawrance • Becca Van Horn • John McDonough

3:30pm EDT

AAWW Presents: New Pacific Islander Poetry OnlineCraig Santos Perez • William Nuʻutupu Giles • Noʻu Revilla • Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng Sports Page, the Pandemic Edition OnlineKen Waldman • Marjorie Maddox • J.D. Scrimgeour TEACHER TRACK: Integrating Poetry, Media Arts/Theater Lesson Plans with Common Core OnlineKimberly Jae The Poet and the Line OnlineFreesia McKee

4:45pm EDT

State of Poetry Panel OnlineCristela Guerra • Tyehimba Jess • Martín Espada • Jen Benka • Jonathan Galassi

6:00pm EDT

Massachusetts CavanKerry Poets OnlineKevin Carey • Cindy Veach • Rebecca Hart Olander • Kali Lightfoot Poetry & Ice Cream Online Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic OnlineSteven Cramer • Eileen Cleary • Christine Jones • Kyle Potvin Crossing Dimensions with Indigenous Poets OnlineMargaret Noodin • Kimberly Blaeser • LeAnne Howe • Gordon Henry

7:00pm EDT

Headline Reading with Porsha Olayiwola, Tyehimba Jess, and Naomi Shihab Nye, sponsored by The Grolier Poetry Book Shop OnlinePorsha Olayiwola • Tyehimba Jess • Naomi Shihab Nye

8:30pm EDT

Between the Notes, Music and Poetry with Kaia Kater and Sadie Dupuis OnlineSadie Dupuis • Kaia Kater