Events for May 6, 2023

The Massachusetts Poetry Festival is a biennial celebration of contemporary poetry. This year the Festival will be back on the ground in Salem, MA, May 5-7. We will feature over 150 poets...

How often does a poem turn into a meditation? How often does a meditation turn into a poem? Could this happen more often? In this workshop we will explore how...

Get a jump on your Mother’s Day and Father’s Day shopping! Snacks and refreshments will be available for purchase. All proceeds for this event will support the Essex Scholarship Fund.

Are you a teen who loves drawing, doodling, designing, sketching, scribbling? Do we have the wall for you! Drop in to add some art, or a couple lines of poetry,...

The “House of Hope” Poetry Quilt for Sekou Sundia and Lucille Clifton Mass Poetry is pleased to present “House of Hope,” a quilt made by multimedia visual artist, activist, and...

Spring has sprung and summer is just around the corner. It’s the perfect time to shake off the winter blues with the shops on Artists’ Row at our season grand opening...

In this interactive panel, five poets whose projects have engaged with—and challenged—representations of women as one-dimensional archetypes (sinner, saint, virgin, mother, witch) that appear in many historical, religious, and literary...

Shabdaguchha, an International Bilingual Poetry Magazine, will celebrate its 25 years of publication with poets from different parts of the world. This will be a multilingual presentation, headed by Hassanal...

The “Sum Poets” are some Women and Non-Binary Poets that belong to the Bunker Hill Community College community. We are both of and more than the sum total of our...

Invented by Mykhaylo Semenko in 1914, kverofuturism (often translated into English as “panfuturism”) was intended to be a thoroughly modern poetics for a modern age. In this workshop, we will...

Recommended for ages 12 and up. Perfect for an intergenerational workshop. Participants use random words salvaged from various sources to create associations, then write a poem. The words on salvaged...

This showcase of young poets pairs poetry with other art forms: poetry and music, theater, visual art, dance. Hear a variety of youth voices and see all the different ways...

This year’s small press fair will be back on the Essex Street pedestrian mall outside the Peabody Essex Museum. Featuring small presses and organizations from across Massachusetts and beyond! Broadside...

In early 2020, the pandemic struck with most of the world facing indefinite lockdown. Poets were just one of many groups taking to the internet with the hopes of forming...

Join Su Cho, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Joan Kwon Glass & Eugenia Leigh for a panel discussion & reading of the authors’ work. They will share writing on themes that have...

Massachusetts, a state filled with poets and poetry, including a significant number of national poets laureate, to its shame, is one of the few states without a state poet laureate....

According to the National Institute on Aging, Alzheimer’s is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and it’s estimated that over six million Americans struggle with dementia...

There is a long tradition of poets writing about their dreams, including William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Lucille Clifton, Jean Valentine, and Alice Notley. Like the best poems, the...

Enjoy delicious food while enjoying live music with your community every Saturday at the Village Tavern in Downtown Salem.

On this expert-guided, interactive and deep-dive into the Witch Trials explore in rare detail how a house and neighborhood reveal stories of terror and survival as they witnessed one of...

Fresh off a sold-out show, Hello Friends Productions brings the NEW Broadway Review, “Once Upon A Time” to the Hammond Castle Museum! Act I combines songs from Broadway greats such...