2013 Schedule of Sunday and Other Events
 

Eleventh Annual Favorite Poem Project of Greater Newburyport

Firehouse Center for the Arts, One Market Square, Newburyport
3:00 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 28, 2013 at 3:00 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 28th event.

To submit a poem for consideration, email it to dszabo@newburyport.k12.ma.us or mail it to Deborah Szabo, Newburyport High School, 241 High Street, Newburyport, MA 01950 by April 1. Along with a copy of the poem, please include a brief paragraph explaining why it is a favorite, your name, your email address or phone number, and some identifying information, such as your profession and/or age, so we can be sure to select a varied group of readers and poems for the performance. If you choose a poem in a foreign language, please attach a translation.

High Tea in the Marquand Library

Sunday, April 28, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Join us for High Tea in the Marquand Library on Sunday, April 28, 4:00-6:00 p.m. James Marquand, grandson of John P. Marquand, will read from his up-coming novel, The Gold Watches, and literary biographer and critic Millicent Bell will be on hand to entertain questions about the writer whose best-selling fiction of the 1930s-1950s helped to put Newburyport on the literary map.

The Massachusetts Poetry Festival

The fifth Massachusetts Poetry Festival will be held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 3-5, in historic Salem. The three-day event, which will bring more than 1,500 poets and poetry lovers of all ages to the city, will showcase a variety of extraordinary local and regional poets, and engage the public through poetry readings, interactive workshops, panel discussions, music, film and visual arts, and performances geared toward a diverse statewide audience.
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