2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival: Full Schedule

12:30pm EDT

New Elegies

How do we turn grief into song? Four poets read from new collections that wrestle with the bounds and opportunities of the American elegy. A father’s illness and loss are relived through lyrics that draw vividly from the everyday landscapes of the kitchen, the hospital, and the surrounding Florida that a family of Cuban exiles calls home in Jessica Guzman’s Adelante. Sumita Chakraborty’s Arrow uses the long poem as a means for making meaning out of mourning for the premature death of her sister. An elegiac landscape of poor women and girls of the South is built across Erin Carlyle’s Southern-Gothic-infused Magnolia Canopy Underworld, as she excavates the forgotten and lost in the world of trailer parks and pain clinics, while Rebecca Morgan Frank’s Oh You Robot Saints! explores mortality through the figure of the automaton in the wake of her mother’s death.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/zf95D8krWMr5T2tq5XP-E3IoiFS03dkc6jPIm2JArXJfS3ZNE-kF-_6gatMeZ_Jf.R-k-ACH06oL6YcNb

Speakers

Sumita Chakraborty

Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar who teaches at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is the author of Arrow (Alice James Books/Carcanet Press, 2020), which has received coverage in the New York Times, NPR, and The Guardian. Find her at sumitachakraborty.co... Read More →

Rebecca Morgan Frank

Rebecca Morgan Frank's fourth collection of poems is, Oh You Robot Saints! (Carnegie Mellon, 2021). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She teaches in Northwestern University’s MFA Program in Prose... Read More →

Erin Carlyle

Erin Carlyle's poetry can be found in journals such as New South, Bateau Press, and Prairie Schooner. She holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University, and her debut full-length collection, Magnolia Canopy Otherworld, is out now on Driftwood Press.

Jessica Guzman

Jessica Guzman is the author of Adelante (Switchback Books, 2020), selected by Patricia Smith as the winner of the 2019 Gatewood Prize. Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Ecotone, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. She teaches at Widener University and... Read More →

Friday May 14, 2021 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

1:45pm EDT

Beyond “Girlpower”: Poetry, Identity, and Coming of Age

You Don’t Have to Be Everything is a new anthology for teen girls, just out with Workman Publishing. Four poets from the book will read their poems and discuss how poetry has been a path for self-discovery and self-acceptance, and how poems can facilitate empathy for self and others.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/5DLtATA1P7BFa-T9dKC0G413-T09oYJFOW_szCg1nunujf_qo1puUZc6cShYb2gA.IQhlGRDqE_cMVkeP

Speakers

Diana Whitney

Diana Whitney writes across the genres in Vermont with a focus on feminism, motherhood, and sexuality. Her first book, Wanting It, became an indie poetry bestseller. For years she was the poetry critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she featured women and LGBTQ voices in her... Read More →

Amy Dryansky

Amy Dryansky has two poetry collections; Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for poetry, and How I Got Lost So Close to Home (Alice James). She’s a Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Fellow, and former poet laureate of Northampton, MA. You can... Read More →

Angélica María Aguilera

Angélica María Aguilera is an internationally touring Chicana artist and entrepreneur from Los Angeles. Her work has brought her across the country as a TEDx speaker, a workshop facilitator for the National Poetry Slam of Mexico, and a finalist for the National Poetry Slam 2018... Read More →

Crystal Williams

A poet and essayist, Crystal Williams is the author of four collections of poems, most recently Detroit as Barn. She is Vice President and Associate Provost for Community and Inclusion at Boston University where she is also Professor of English. crystalannwilliams.com... Read More →

Friday May 14, 2021 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

3:00pm EDT

Celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the Undocupoets!

To celebrate the 5th year of Undocupoets, this reading and conversation features four recipients of the Undocupoets Fellowship, an annual grant awarded to poets who are currently or who were formerly undocumented in the U.S. The panelists will share a more complex and nuanced narrative of the undocumented experience through the reading of their work and discuss how their statuses have informed their craft and the particular aesthetic concerns of writing about, through, and in spite of documentation. This event will highlight the diversity of undocumented poets and explore their challenges of moving through the literary world—from the deeply internal work of writing from a self whose very presence is contested, to applying or submitting to institutions that demand proof of residency in order to participate in the poetic discourse.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/otxVE5z4kbSQB3qg3SN6yeXN_-yvbEi86i1CchuFiUnsxewA1e30FkhkXIc2HWJ1.3oJQ0GEhqQkikFXVV

Speakers

Aline Mello

Aline Mello is a Brazilian immigrant poet who grew up in Atlanta. Her debut collection of poetry, More Salt Than Diamond, will be published in Spring 2022 by Andrews McMeel. Her work can be found in various journals such as The Rumpus, The Georgia Review, The Indiana Review, and... Read More →

Laurel Chen

Laurel Chen is a queer/trans/migrant writer from Taiwan. A fellow of Kundiman, Undocupoets, and Pink Door, they co-curate @shoutingpoems on Twitter. They are an abolitionist... Read More →

Esther Lin

Co-organizer, Undocupoets

Esther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. She was a 2020 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 2017–19 Wallace Stegner Fellow, and author of The Ghost Wife (PSA, 2017).

Yosimar Reyes

Yosimar Reyes is a nationally acclaimed poet and public speaker. Born in Guerrero, Mexico, and raised in Eastside San Jose, Reyes explores the themes of migration and sexuality in his work. The Advocate named Reyes one of "13 LGBT Latinos Changing the World" and Remezcla included... Read More →

Friday May 14, 2021 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

4:15pm EDT

Her Story Is: in English and Arabic

Hear beautiful poems in English and Arabic, celebrate contemporary women's stories from across the Arabic speaking world, learn about cross-cultural collaboration, and explore how poetry-in-translation brings writers together across the boundaries of nations in this lively, dynamic, group reading. Members of the Her Story Is collective will share poems from their exciting anthology project and will share key lessons from the translation process which transformed and improved their own creative work. Q&A to follow.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/bbrK7rCmpI7yb-Rd0mFP_DO3Q76RC5qKkIYP5CIbwUJMj28VZARY0dq4C1doGWTU.6bwEYmOZPuPkKDXMM

Speakers

Kirun Kapur

Kirun Kapur's collections include Women in the Waiting Room, a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist, which won the Antivenom Poetry Award. Her work’s appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, and Prairie Schooner. She’s an editor for the Beloit Poetry... Read More →

Jennifer Jean

Program Manager, 24PearlStreet Online Writing Program at FAWC

Jennifer Jean’s poetry collections include VOZ and The Fool, as well as Object Lesson which is about sex-trafficking and objectification in America. Her teaching resource is Object Lesson: a Guide to Writing Poetry and she's a co-editor and co-translator of an anthology in development... Read More →

Dima AlBasha

Insurance, Coveyres

Dima AlBasha is from Aleppo, Syria. Since coming to the United States, she has become a promoter of interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding; and, she’s given a TEDx talk which bridges gaps between people of different cultures and perspectives. Dima is a translator for... Read More →

Friday May 14, 2021 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

5:30pm EDT

Bridging the Atlantic

A poetry reading by Chekwube Danladi, winner of the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and Logan February, winner of the 2020 Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature from their award-winning debut poetry collections, respectively. The reading will be followed by a conversation around the current state and future of African poetry, a genre bubbling with exciting and brilliant new voices. Chibuihe Obi Achimba, the 2019-2020 Harvard University Scholar-at-Risk fellow and currently an M.F.A. candidate at Brown University, will moderate this session.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/NrD_pV7a1BvLPY2PpuFAjnp805WWGmlqssIdsueszWe9GOywXHGnj6v703q7tYY-.MrKR3eW0FmmySXML

Speakers

Chibuihe Obi Achimba

Chibuihe Obi Achimba is a poet, essayist, and LGBTQ+ activist. He was the 2019 Harvard University Scholar-at-Risk fellow and a visiting poet in the Department of English. His writings have been published or featured in the New York Times, Guernica Magazine, Harvard Review, Arrowsmith... Read More →

Chekwube Danladi

Chekwube Danladi is a writer and a reformed punk. The author of Semiotics, and Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, she has received support from Callaloo, Kimbilio, Hedgebrook, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Vermont Studio... Read More →

Logan February

Logan February is a non-binary Nigerian poet, songwriter, and graduate student at Purdue University's MFA program in Creative Writing. They and their work have been featured in The Guardian Life, Dazed, The Rumpus, Lambda Literary, Washington Square Review, Africa In Dialogue... Read More →

Friday May 14, 2021 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

10:15am EDT

Ecopoetry: Words in Balance

As the rainforest burns and wildfires rage, as climate change threatens our world, poets can bear witness, reflecting on the intricate interconnectedness of humanity, our planet, and nature. We are nature. EcoPoetry offers us a lifeline to hidden worlds and reminds us of our shared reliance on nature. This session explores the role of the poet as activist, as chronicler of destruction, as truth teller. In this reading, poets Fred Marchant, Jennifer Barber, Deborah Leipziger and Myronn Hardy share their ecopoems and reflect on the power of EcoPoetry to transform and heal our world and ourselves.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/1U8gQvtw_8CMzdjsDU4eMkg3I99sOzcERf3jO_2HA6gu4fK_fp0PCC6NmIvO9-4W.wkEbMEW2ueEAwoPk

Speakers

Fred Marchant

Emeritus Professor of English, Suffolk University

Fred Marchant has authored five books of poetry, the most recent of which, Said Not Said, was named an Honored Book by the Massachusetts Book Awards. He has edited Another World Instead: The Early Poetry of William Stafford, and, co-translated (with Nguyen Ba Chung) works by several... Read More →

Deborah Leipziger

Founder, The Lexicon of Change

Deborah Leipziger is an author, advisor on sustainability, change maker, and poet. Born in Brazil, she is the author of several books on sustainability and human rights issues. In 2024, she launched The Lexicon of Change, a guide to new ways of thinking and acting and addressing the UN Global Goals. Deborah is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Social Innovation at Babson College. She advises organizations around the world on social and environmental issues. Her poems have been published in nine countries an... Read More →

Jennifer Barber

Jennifer Barber’s fourth poetry collection, The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made, came out in 2022 from The Word Works. Her collection Works on Paper received the 2015 Tenth Gate Prize from The Word Works and was published in 2016. She is the current poet laureate of Brookline and the... Read More →

Myronn Hardy

Myronn Hardy is the author of five books of poems, most recently, Radioactive Starlings, published by Princeton University Press (2017). His poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Baffler, Rhino, and elsewhere. He teaches at Bates C... Read More →

Saturday May 15, 2021 10:15am - 11:15am EDT
Online

Group Reading

11:30am EDT

Translating Haiti

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/play/8LOMi3x_qtRl67gxNlu_jPUHKnk9MGUO0svZScQ5Gyex7FO1y_6vgEaTOcRwpAJ698GZvx3oGHMMX_4.irWFyoker6F9ZYFz?continueMode=true

“Translating Haiti” is a group reading (with elements of panel discussion and Q&A) by regional poets who write in and translate through Haitian Kreyòl, French and English. Poets in the Haitian diaspora translate their distance from motherland and mother-tongue into poetry compelling for its engagement with Haiti's socio-political past and present, for the voice it gives to immigrant experience in the US, and for the wrestle with three languages to get there. Reading and discussion in English, French, Haitian Kreyòl.

Speakers

Aidan Rooney

Winner of the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Poet in 1997, and the Daniel Varoujan Award from the New England Poetry Club in 2013, Aidan Rooney lives in Hingham MA and teaches at Thayer Academy. His collections are Day Release (The Gallery Press, 2000), Tightrope (The Gallery... Read More →

Emmelie Prophète

Born in Port-au-Prince, Emmelie Prophète is a poet, novelist, journalist and diplomat. Her literary work is published with Mémoire d’Encrier, notably Le testament des solitudes, which took the Grand Prix littéraire de l’Association des écrivains de langue française (ADELF... Read More →

Eddy Toussaint Tontongi

Eddy Toussaint Tontongi was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Poet, critic, and essayist, he writes in Haitian, French, and English. The author's published books include: Sèl pou dezonbifye Bouki (Essays in Haitian, Trilingual Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016); La Parole indomptée... Read More →

Doumafis Lafontan

Playwright

Doumafis is a playwright, striving to make justice work in American society. Beyond social justice, he shares his praxis with like-minded individuals to find solutions to the issues that hamper human development and quality of life. During his leisure time, he enjoys photography... Read More →

Saturday May 15, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

3:30pm EDT

AAWW Presents: New Pacific Islander Poetry

In recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) presents a reading and celebration of Pacific Islander poetry, hosted by Craig Santos Perez, and featuring William Nu'utupu Giles, Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng, and No'u Revilla. These writers, activists, educators, organizers, and innovators are redefining Indigenous identity, examining human relationships to the environment in a time of climate crisis, supporting contemporary protest movements, and allowing us to imagine a more sustainable future. The AAWW is a non-profit organization dedicated to holding space for community, and to uplifting the Asian diasporic and Pacific Islander literary culture of tomorrow.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/qMcHDjW2C7bqk3a09b74ZBY2QRS8lm5uGT7kWBsEhf3HKb2RC-gvzx6GCxSrJybx.SuyrkcNZsfi61Vs9

Speakers

Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez is a Chamoru writer from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). He is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor of five anthologies. He teaches at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa.

William Nuʻutupu Giles

William Nu’utupu Giles is a second-generation Samoan-American Poet and Arts Educator from Honolulu, Hawaii. He views spoken word poetry as a continuation of the Pacific Oral Tradition of storytelling as living history. Will’s poetry finds the political seeds in personal stories... Read More →

Noʻu Revilla

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa

Noʻu Revilla is an ʻŌiwi poet, performer, and educator. Her debut book of poetry ASK THE BRINDLED won the 2021 National Poetry Series. She also won the 2021 Omnidawn Broadside Poetry prize. Her work has been featured in Beloit, ANMLY, Lit Hub, Poetry, and the Library of Congress... Read More →

Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng

Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng is a queer multi-dimensional creative of Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese descent. The fluidity of her art blends award-winning spoken word poetry, special effects make-up, theater performance, photography, and fabrication to navigate themes of queerness... Read More →

Saturday May 15, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

6:00pm EDT

Massachusetts CavanKerry Poets

These Massachusetts poets all have books published with CavanKerry Press. They will read a few poems from recently published books or books that are forthcoming. Then the panel will talk about their experience with CK Press, what inspired their collections, how their collections came together, and the process through publication. This should be an insightful look into the small press poetry world. There will be time for questions from the audience.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/play/TAt7CTSj9REzab9Z0rnGH2NjeH6gX3kEvEDpaEsKpZ340SxnuzA167ZHY8pYSbYyqyD7oWWV-CGrVAI.H7lrkVEL5aZ8opLy?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=CH409mT6SBSndCRFdNz76A.1621121536752.2495958a3a271be30a8284bcce39efdc&_x_zm_rhtaid=118

Speakers

Kevin Carey

Kevin Carey is Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. Books include: The Beach People (2014), The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) which was an Honor book for the Paterson Literary Prize, & Set in Stone (2020). His poems have appeared... Read More →

Cindy Veach

Cindy Veach is the author of Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read,’ Her poems have appeared in the... Read More →

Rebecca Hart Olander

Writing Teacher / Editor & Director, Perugia Press

Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently in Bracken, Crab Creek Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Massachusetts Review, and others, and her collaborative visual and written work has been published in multiple venues in print and online and in They... Read More →

Kali Lightfoot

Poet

Retired Executive Director of the National Resource Center for Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes, Kali Lightfoot earned an MFA in Poetry at Vermont College of Fine Arts in July 2015. She lives an LGBTQ life in Salem, MA. Her poems and reviews of poetry books have been published in... Read More →

Saturday May 15, 2021 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

10:15am EDT

Rivers of Addiction: Poetry of Witness to the Opiate Epidemic

How to speak of the river of addiction and the trauma of loved ones drowned in it? An
epidemic that rages fiercely within the current pandemic, drug overdoses have claimed even
more lives this last year. In this group reading, three poets who are mothers of children who
died from addiction offer their voices, highlighting the ways in which poetry gives voice to
unspeakable tragedy. These poets are writing about the “silent epidemic,” one that doesn’t
have a Dr. Fauci as its champion, where big pharma is the villain, not the hero. The poems
explore three unique, agonizing and loving journeys of mother and child. Poems of varying
aesthetic styles, poems like prayers, curses, conversations with gone ones, poems that
illuminate both loss and hope, and offer ways forward. The reading is designed to spark a
fruitful conversation about art and addiction.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/DNXn_DGrgIUtUfSgUc1j7K-HYXTrTU49ThaVPNOx25x3nCpJzfj_CN_DQFWvFp66.JhFt9QKOXeSsvZuA

Speakers

Miriam Greenspan

Miriam Greenspan is a psychotherapist and writer whose work includes the bestseller Healing Through the Dark Emotions, as well as numerous magazine essays of political/cultural commentary. The Heroin Addict’s Mother, (Atmosphere Press, 2021) a memoir that bears witness to the ravages... Read More →

Julia Paul

Pres., Board of Directors, Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc

Julia Paul is president of Riverwood Poetry Series, a longstanding reading series in Hartford, CT, and an elder law attorney. Her chapbook, Staring Down the Tracks, was published by The Poetry Box , and her book, Shook, by Grayson Books. Her book, Table with Burning Candle, is forthcoming... Read More →

Sheryl St. Germain

Sheryl St. Germain has published six poetry books, three essay collections, and co-edited two anthologies. The Small Door of Your Death (poetry) explores the life and overdose death of her son, as does her latest collection of essays, Fifty Miles. sheryl-stgermain.com/... Read More →

Sunday May 16, 2021 10:15am - 11:15am EDT
Online

Group Reading

11:30am EDT

11 Years of SPINE: A Celebration

EmersonWRITES is an urban, creative writing program offering free college-style workshops to students grades 8-12 enrolled in a Greater Boston public or charter school. In 2019 we celebrated 10 years of SPINE—our annual anthology written by the students of EmersonWRITES. Come join our reading of works spanning over a decade of published student work, of a program committed to giving voice to so many talented young writers.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/9yTDbf3vxttEQ88FBl53VGazg_40BxcKCcwjJVHlCN1AG0zA6HPpmWDjzObCeXJ6.Ce8G4Ijt6XXEZTEF?startTime=1621179106000

Speakers

Livia Meneghin

Emerson College

Livia Meneghin (she/her) is the author of Honey in My Hair and GASHER reviews. She is the winner of Breakwater Review's 2022 Peseroff Prize, a Writers' Room of Boston Fellowship, and The Academy of American Poets' 2020 University Prize. Her writing has found homes in Solstice Lit... Read More →

Rebecca Rubin

Rebecca Rubin has her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. She has taught with EmersonWRITES for two years and is also teaching at Emerson in the First Year Writing Program.

Kate Kobosko

Instructor, EmersonWrites

Kate Kobosko earned her MFA in Poetry from Emerson College in the Spring of 2021. Before that, she attended Eckerd College, where she dual majored in creative writing and human development. Her work has been published in Red Cedar Review, Hunnybee Lit, and Reunion: The Dallas Review... Read More →

Sunday May 16, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

2:45pm EDT

Drawing Inspiration from the Everyday: A Reading

A writer’s practice can’t constantly wait for the Muse: we have to actively glean inspiration from casual interactions, chores and caregiving, watching television, even just simple choices of food and drink. This array of poets, all reading from new collections, will share work that interrogates the pressures of “everyday” existence—and how we turn those moments into edgy, funny, and exciting poems that waken into revelation. How do we bring in research and cultural dialogue? How do we innovate in terms of structure and conceit? We will further contextualize our readings with introductory comments that acknowledge how we relate to the current moment. These are the poems we need right now.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/IM4FBuXBx5BMBDQhkwhkZ7whm4hX2l7__mJk-26forb8958FzGKVdpCM9s6x5yBu.FPxPbJbqSBb6HJnh

Speakers

Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Made to Explode, which came out with W. W. Norton in 2021; and Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a disability memoir. She also edited Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways... Read More →

Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen is the author of six books, including Anodyne (TinHouse Books, 2020), and I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books, 2017), a finalist for the National Poetry Series, which was praised in O Magazine, the New Yorker, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere... Read More →

Aricka Foreman

Aricka Foreman is an American poet and writer from Detroit MI. Author of Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books), she’s earned fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She lives in Chicago, IL, engaging poetry with photography & video.

Kate Durbin

Kate Durbin is an artist and writer whose books of poetry include Hoarders (Wave Books), E! Entertainment, The Ravenous Audience, and ABRA. ABRA is also a free, interactive iOS app that is "a living text," and won the 2017 international Turn On Literature Prize for electronic literature... Read More →

Sunday May 16, 2021 2:45pm - 3:45pm EDT
Online

Group Reading

2:45pm EDT

Voices Carry: A Reading with Voices from Inside

Since 1999, Voices From Inside has elevated the voices of currently and formerly incarcerated women poets and writers. Committed to the proposition that writing changes lives, Voices From Inside has helped women find their voices and become leaders in their communities through creative writing. VFI offers ongoing writing workshops using the Amherst Writers and Artists method developed by Pat Schneider and described in her book, Writing Alone and with Others. In VFI writing workshops, participants receive encouragement and support for their writing, gain self-confidence as they strengthen their literacy and communication skills, and begin to imagine new possibilities for themselves.

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/Xj7qMGq3AKJEHdVmb5bcDEWMSb221rQHXLqZvrWS2-vOrkVIe6_NIkJmBvSH3jUS.0RMxsjUF9OvjjTjn

Speakers

Judy Holmes

Amie Hyson

Poet & Group Facilitator, Voices From Inside

Amie lives in Western Massachusetts where she has been writing poetry & reading out at local open mics since 2016. She joined a Voices From Inside (VFI) writing workshop in early 2017, becoming a facilitator later that year. She has been facilitating a weekly VFI group for incarcerated... Read More →

Jaqueline Velez

Daisy Diaz

Sunday May 16, 2021 2:45pm - 3:45pm EDT
Online

Group Reading