Welcome to the schedule of poetry events happening in Massachusetts! This schedule contains events happening all over the state, as entered by our Poetry Partners and others. It is not limited to Mass Poetry events. To submit an event, click here. For more questions regarding our calendar, you can email marketing@masspoetry.org.
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Please join us for our first in a series of free online book club meetings for books by headliners of the 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival! Our first riveting read: Ross Gay’s Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude. Aren’t you grateful for this event?
Meet Ross Gay, one of our wonderful headliners for the 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival! Ross is the award-winning author of four books of poetry – Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude – as well as three esteemed collections of essays – The Book of Delights, Inciting Joy, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights.
Check out Ross’ bio below: Ross Gay is interested in joy. Ross Gay wants to understand joy. Ross Gay is curious about joy. Ross Gay studies joy. Something like that.
