Other Local Events and Readings

Mass Poetry Fundraising Event

The House of the Seven Gables, 115 Derby Street, Salem
7:00 p.m.

Featuring poets Rhina P. Espaillat, Fred Marchant and Afaa Michael Weaver

Suggested donation is $35 per person or $60 for two.

Donations accepted online at www.masspoetry.org
(click on the "Donate now" link on the left side of the page) or at the door.
 

Mass Poetry's Annual Poetry Festival

Various locations throughout downtown Salem, MA
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Tenth Annual Favorite Poem Project of Greater Newburyport

Firehouse Center for the Arts, One Market Square, Newburyport
2:00 p.m. 

The Favorite Poem Project was started by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky to encourage people to share their favorite poems with others and appreciate the wonders of poetry. To culminate the Newburyport Literary Festival, Newburyport High School Creative Writing students are planning and organizing the Tenth Annual Greater Newburyport Favorite Poem Project. Students are calling on everyone in the community to choose a favorite poem and bring it into the classroom spotlight. After reading all the poems in class, students will select twenty-four to be read at the Newburyport Firehouse Center for the Arts on April 29, 2012 at 2:00 pm. Students will assess not only how they like the poems, but also how participants have established personal connections to them.

You do not need to be a poetry aficionado to participate. In fact, part of the fun lies in the surprise of how certain poems can have meaning to the least likely people, as well as to the poetry lovers. Students will choose an entertaining and enlightening variety of poems and readers for the April 29th event.

Come hear poems from members in the community from local officials to grandparents to students, including poems in Thai, Swahili, and Montenegrian.

High Tea in the Marquand Library

Custom House Maritime Museum, 25 Water Street, Newburyport
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Join us for High Tea in the Marquand Library on Sunday, April 29, 4:00-6:00pm.  The Honorable Richard E. Welch III, grandson of John P. Marquand, will read Marquand's award-winning essay, "A Hearsay History of Curzon's Mill," and literary biographer and critic Millicent Bell will be on hand to entertain questions about the novelist whose best-selling fiction of the1930s-1950s helped to put Newburyport on the literary map.
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May Sarton Centennial Symposium

York Maine
May 3 - May 6, 2012

Join us in York, Maine for an extraordinary weekend: May 3 (which would have been Sarton’s 100th birthday) to May 6.  Lectures, panel discussions, films and a Poetry Celebration & New England Clambake. The May Sarton Centennial Symposium is a feast of literary exploration for everyone; fans of Sarton and all lovers of literature. Sarton wrote about every day things; balancing work with rest, love of friends and a deep longing for solitude, angry at one’s own flaws and acceptance of self. The Presenters are all accomplished scholars, filmmakers, and writers of there own right coming from all over the country. The feature film, Mrs. Stevens Hears The Mermaids Singing will be shown (this film is not available to the general public) by filmmaker Linda Thornburg.

See our event page for details and registration information:  www.maysarton100.org