Events

Fly on over to The Good Witch of Salem shop to design your own necklace for the MOM in your life! 💕 This person can be anyone that you view...

A special themed open mic event featuring visiting animals from the Pets & People Foundation. Please bring your poems about animals to share. For the safety of the animals who...

A reading by four poets celebrating 25 years of distinguished publishing by Autumn House Press. All four poets have found innovative ways to craft poetry from pain: the poems in...

Lily Poetry Review Books is pleased to share a sampling of some of its 2023 poets reading from their new books. Featuring Kelly DuMar, Richard Hoffman, Deborah Leipziger, Josette Akresh-...

Hermit crabs are not suited to one shell for life. They constantly seek their optimal environment, one that allows them to grow as they need to. Such is the way...

Lisa Forte-Doyle has taught Creative Writing and advised a creative writing club for over 25 years. Several of Lisa’s students have become professional, published writers and/or teachers of English. This...

West Coast style Street Tacos & Southern favorites.

The New England Poetry Club was founded in 1915 by Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, and Amy Lowell. Now in 2022, the club offer grants for diverse populations, contests, writing seminars...

Poet and Vocalist Charles Coe will offer a presentation combining music and spoken word. He will read samples of his poetry, including work from “Purgatory Road,” his fourth collection. He will also...

Poetry doesn’t always have to be broody and dark! We’ll read some poems by poets who are bringing the joy back to poetry, including: Ross Gay, Aimee Nezhukumathil, Sandra Beasley,...

Join poet Colleen Michaels for a game-themed workshop at Bit Bar in Salem!

Our photo streams show what we care about and hope to preserve, what moves and mystifies us, the people, places and experiences that bring meaning into our lives. Writing poetry...

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...

On Friday, May 5, 6-8pm, Salem Arts Association is hosting a Cinco de Mayo-themed reception celebrating the Drawn Together exhibit.  Festivities will include the opportunity to draw a live model who will...

Support local artists at East Regiment Beer Company with their Friday Night Music series. Each week will highlight a new local artists that will take the stage to fill the...

Please join us for the opening headline event of the Festival! This reading will feature poets Andrea Cohen and January Gill O’Neil. The event will open with a special performance...

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...

Stop by Bit Bar every Friday night for a live viewing of Ru Paul’s Drag Race with local Drag Queen Miz Diamond.

A poetry slam open to any team.

Enjoy a live DJ set every Friday night at the Village Tavern Salem with great food and drinks. Enjoy a night out on the town with the Salem community.

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...