Events

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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...

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...