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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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Thursday, June 1
 

TBA

Bring Your Poems to Life: Using Concrete Details and Imagery to Enhance Your Poetry (Virtual/Zoom Class) TBA

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Friday, June 16
 

6:00pm EDT

The Openest Mic Smokestack Roasters
 
Friday, June 30
 

7:30pm EDT

The Poetry Brothel: Drag Me to Salem Diehl Marcus & CompanyMadam Betty BOOM
 
Saturday, August 5
 

10:00am EDT

Roxbury Poetry Festival TBA
 
Thursday, August 17
 

6:00pm EDT

Phosphorescence Poetry Reading The Emily Dickinson Museum
 
Friday, August 25
 

6:00pm EDT

The Openest Mic Smokestack Roasters
 
Sunday, August 27
 

2:00pm EDT

Poetry on the Manse The Old Manse
 
Friday, September 1
 

7:00pm EDT

SOWA First Friday Poetry Open Mic SOWA
 
Sunday, September 3
 

4:00pm EDT

Book launch with Peter Barton and Gail Thomas Becket Arts Center
 
Saturday, September 9
 

2:00pm EDT

Outspoken Saturdays @ GBH Studios Boston Public Library
 
Sunday, September 10
 

4:00pm EDT

WORD SUITE Cotuit Center for the Arts
 
Thursday, September 14
 

6:30pm EDT

Anomaly Poetry Open Mic Night Co-Creative Center

7:00pm EDT

Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & Lynne Viti Feature Reading) Cofounder/cohost Wayne-Daniel Berard's home T4T Reading Series The Model Cafe
 
Tuesday, September 19
 

7:00pm EDT

Readings From the Room Online
 
Wednesday, September 20
 

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, September 21
 

7:00pm EDT

Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic Roslindale House
 
Monday, September 25
 

6:00pm EDT

Tell It Slant Poetry Festival The Emily Dickinson Museum
 
Wednesday, September 27
 

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, September 28
 

4:30pm EDT

Celebrate Translation: Reading and Recognition The Translation Center at UMass Amherst, Herter Annex

7:00pm EDT

U35 Reading Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Saturday, September 30
 

10:00am EDT

Wicked Smaht Fall Festival- Open Mic North Andover Town Common

7:00pm EDT

Late Night Garden Party with Marilyn Nelson and Abigail Chabitnoy The Emily Dickinson Museum
 
Wednesday, October 4
 

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Wednesday, October 11
 

7:00pm EDT

Cervena Barva Press Reading Series Online

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, October 12
 

6:30pm EDT

Anomaly Poetry Open Mic Night Co-Creative Center

7:00pm EDT

Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & David Surette Feature Reading) Cofounder/cohost Wayne-Daniel Berard's home
 
Saturday, October 14
 

10:00am EDT

Boston Book Festival Copley SquareBoston Book Festival
 
Wednesday, October 18
 

11:00am EDT

black holes and gypsy hearts Reading and Q&A at Brandeis University Brandeis University

7:00pm EDT

Cervena Barva Press Reading Series Online

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, October 19
 

7:00pm EDT

You, You, You: Finding the Address of Poetry WITH PÅDRAIG Ó TUAMA Follen Church Society
 
Sunday, October 22
 

2:00pm EDT

Three Short Verse Plays by Gary Duehr Connexion Poetry at the Manse The Old Manse The Openest Mic River Styx Brewery
 
Tuesday, October 24
 

7:00pm EDT

New Book and Open Mic Robbins Library, 3rd Floor, 700 Mass., Ave., Arlington, MA
 
Wednesday, October 25
 

7:00pm EDT

Cervena Barva Press Reading Series Online

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, October 26
 

5:30pm EDT

Open Mic Night at Revere Public Library Revere Public Library, 179 Beach Street Revere, MA 02151
 
Sunday, October 29
 

3:00pm EDT

Poetry Reading with Maggie Smith and Stephan Delbos Spire Center for the Performing Arts, 25 1/2 Court Street Plymouth, MA 02360

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, October 30
 

7:30pm EDT

Queer Poetry Night 10 Fiske Ave, Greenfield MA 01301

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, October 31
 

7:30pm EDT

The Poetry Brothel: Haunted Hearts 1 Bow Market Way (Upstairs), Somerville, MA 02143
 
Wednesday, November 1
 

12:30pm EDT

Sparks in the Dark Online Poetry – Holly Iglesias & Landon Godfrey Online

6:00pm EDT

November 2023 Untitled Open Mic And Mill City Speaks Qualifier Slam Coffee and Cotton

7:00pm EDT

Poets for Palestine Boston Liberation Center

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Friday, November 3
 

7:00pm EDT

THE WORD – OPEN MIC POETRY 13 Church Street, Ware, MA 01082
 
Saturday, November 4
 

TBA

Authors & Artists Festival -- Rewilding Online
 
Sunday, November 5
 

2:00pm EST

A HUMAN ERROR PUBLISHING POETRY EVENT The Divine Theater at Gateway City Arts

4:00pm EST

Bringing the Page to Life Online

7:00pm EST

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, November 6
 

6:00pm EST

Mass Poetry Community Open House + U35 Reading! GrubStreet

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, November 7
 

6:00pm EST

The Poetry Extravaganza Redemption Rock Brewing Company
 
Wednesday, November 8
 

12:30pm EST

Sparks in the Dark Online Poetry – Robin Lysne Online

7:00pm EST

[Working Title] Queer Open Mic The Rockwell

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, November 9
 

6:30pm EST

Anomaly Poetry Open Mic Night Co-Creative Center

7:00pm EST

Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & Joe Fusco Feature Reading) Cofounder/cohost Wayne-Daniel Berard's home
 
Monday, November 13
 

6:30pm EST

MassArt Reading Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), Design and Media Center (DMC), Lecture Hall, 1st...

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Wednesday, November 15
 

12:30pm EST

Sparks in the Dark Online Poetry – Rolly Kent Online

6:00pm EST

Launch of Volume 15.2 and Celebration of 15 Years of Consequence Boston City Hall Square, Civic Pavilion Untitled Open Mic MCC Night Featuring Willie Ramirez and Jonathan Bennett Coffee and Cotton

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, November 16
 

2:00pm EST

Poetry Salon with Claire Keyes on Clemens Schoenebeck Abbot Public Library

7:00pm EST

Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic Roslindale House
 
Saturday, November 18
 

4:00pm EST

Words Together Poetry Club (ages 12-17) Jones Library

6:00pm EST

Reservoir: Poetry Reading and Closing Party Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
 
Sunday, November 19
 

2:00pm EST

Poetry at Fruitlands Fruitlands Museum

7:00pm EST

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, November 20
 

7:30pm EST

Evening of Inspired Leaders The Huntington Theater

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Wednesday, November 22
 

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Sunday, November 26
 

7:00pm EST

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, November 27
 

6:30pm EST

Queer Poetry Night 10 Fiske Ave, Greenfield MA 01301

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Wednesday, November 29
 

12:30pm EST

Online Poetry — Sparks in the Dark Online

6:00pm EST

Poetry Battle: Round 2 at the New Bedford Art Museum New Bedford Art Museum

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, November 30
 

7:00pm EST

An Evening of Poetry: Rachel DeWoskin, Robert Pinsky, & Kirun Kapur Brookline Booksmith
 
Friday, December 1
 

7:00pm EST

THE WORD – OPEN MIC POETRY 13 Church Street, Ware, MA 01082
 
Saturday, December 2
 

1:00pm EST

Recycled Poems: Found Poetry Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary

3:00pm EST

GHOST :: SEEDS: A Poetry & Yoga Workshop (In-Studio & Online) Sanctuary
 
Sunday, December 3
 

12:00pm EST

Human Error Publishing Holiday Celebration Gateway City Arts

7:00pm EST

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, December 4
 

6:00pm EST

Nature & Poetry in the City: A Generative Writing Workshop Codman Square Branch of the Boston Public Library Faces of Phillis Boston Public Library

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Wednesday, December 6
 

12:30pm EST

Online Poetry — Sparks in the Dark Online

6:00pm EST

December 2023 Untitled Qualifier Slam for Mill City Speaks Coffee and Cotton

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Friday, December 8
 

6:00pm EST

The Openest Mic #4 Smokestack Roasters

7:00pm EST

Liberation Open Mic: Feat Adobo Fish Sauce Boston Liberation Center
 
Saturday, December 9
 

1:00pm EST

Nature-Inspired Micropoems and Button-Making Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary
 
Sunday, December 10
 

3:00pm EST

New England Poetry Club Zoom Reading Online

7:00pm EST

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, December 11
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Wednesday, December 13
 

12:30pm EST

Online Poetry — Sparks in the Dark Online

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, December 14
 

2:00pm EST

Poetry Salon with Claire Keyes on Jennifer Martelli Abbot Public Library

7:00pm EST

CANON, CANYON, CANNON: WELL DRESSED Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & Karen Sharpe Feature Reading) Cofounder/cohost Wayne-Daniel Berard's home Tidings Release Party & Open Mic Co-Creative Center
 
Sunday, December 17
 

2:00pm EST

Poetry at Fruitlands Fruitlands Museum

4:00pm EST

Poetry Workshop at Brockton Arts Stacy Adams Cultural Arts Building

7:00pm EST

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, December 18
 

10:30am EST

Poetry in Pictures Medford Senior Center

6:00pm EST

Generative Writing Workshop: Wintry Nature Poems Codman Square Branch of the Boston Public Library

6:30pm EST

Queer Poetry Night 10 Fiske Ave, Greenfield MA 01301

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, December 19
 

5:30pm EST

Artists Who Are Poets/Poets Who Are Artists Winter Solstice Poetry Reading Tidepool Bookshop, Llc
 
Wednesday, December 20
 

12:30pm EST

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Gunilla Theander Kester, Ph.D. Online

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, December 21
 

2:00pm EST

Poetry Workshop at the Wayland Library Wayland Public Library
 
Wednesday, December 27
 

6:00pm EST

Poetry Battle: Final Round (at the New Bedford Art Museum) New Bedford Art Museum
 
Saturday, December 30
 

4:00pm EST

Poetry Reading ~ Enjoy an Afternoon of Poetry! South County Recovery Center

6:00pm EST

The Snow that Never Drifts at Open Doors Center for the Arts Open Doors Yoga Studio, 65 Washington Street
 
Sunday, December 31
 

7:00pm EST

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Wednesday, January 3
 

6:30pm EST

Poetry at Hale Hale Education, Inc.

7:00pm EST

Poetry in the Parlor, curated by the New England Poetry Club The Old ManseKenneth Lee • Tontongi Unearthed Song & Poetry Open Mic: Oliver de la Paz Home.stead Bakery and Cafe
 
Thursday, January 4
 

6:00pm EST

Lesley January Reading Series Presents: Carl Phillips Marran Theater
 
Saturday, January 6
 

6:00pm EST

Lesley January Reading Series Presents: Sharon Bryan and Rachel Kadish Marran Theater
 
Monday, January 8
 

7:00pm EST

WCPA Board Meeting WCPA Office @ the Sprinkler Factory

8:00pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Wednesday, January 10
 

12:30pm EST

Online Poetry — Sparks in the Dark Online

7:00pm EST

Brookline Booksmith: Five Brookline Poets Reading Brookline BooksmithDeborah Leipziger • Judith Steinbergh

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, January 11
 

3:00pm EST

Powow River Poets Reading Series: Elizabeth Wolf and Anton Yakovlev Newburyport Public Library

7:00pm EST

Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & Alana Parrott Feature Reading) Cofounder/cohost Wayne-Daniel Berard's home
 
Friday, January 12
 

3:00pm EST

Concord Poetry at the Library Series Concord Free Public Library

7:30pm EST

Liberation Open Mic Boston Liberation Center
 
Saturday, January 13
 

12:00pm EST

Online Poetry Series: The Refuge of Witnessing featuring Angela Dribben OnlineAngela Dribben
 
Sunday, January 14
 

4:00pm EST

Birthright: A Virtual Poetry Reading with George Abraham OnlineGeorge Abraham

7:00pm EST

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, January 15
 

11:00am EST

Virtual Poetry Writing Workshop with Susan Roney-O’Brien OnlineSusan Roney-O’Brien

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, January 16
 

7:00pm EST

Transnational Series: E.J. Koh in conversation with Jennifer Tseng Brookline BooksmithE.J. Koh
 
Wednesday, January 17
 

12:30pm EST

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark Online

6:30pm EST

The Visible Planets by Aly Pierce Release Show Make Shift BostonLip Manegio • Aly Pierce • Game Over Books

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, January 18
 

7:00pm EST

Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic Online
 
Friday, January 19
 

3:00pm EST

Brookline Poetry Series: Rodney Jones Hunneman Hall, Brookline Village LibraryRodney Jones

7:00pm EST

New Year's Gala: An Open Mic Experience Old Town Hall
 
Saturday, January 20
 

12:00pm EST

Online Poetry Series: The Refuge of Witnessing featuring Kathryn Petruccelli OnlineKathryn Petruccelli

9:00pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Poetry Series featuring Adam Stone Ralph's Rock DinerAdam Stone
 
Sunday, January 21
 

2:00pm EST

Poetry at Fruitlands Fruitlands Museum

6:00pm EST

The Poet's Cauldron The White Room

7:00pm EST

January U35 Reading | Mass Poetry Trident Booksellers & CafeAnanya Panchal • Raina K. Puels • Casey Lynn Roland Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, January 22
 

8:00pm EST

Devin Kelly Features at the Boston Poetry Slam Cantab LoungeDevin Kelly • Boston Poetry Slam

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, January 23
 

2:00pm EST

Book Launch: Aporia by Eric E. Hyett OnlineErica Hyett • Heather Nelson

7:00pm EST

Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic Roslindale House Cape Cod Poetry Review Launch Wellfleet LibraryRose Auslander • Dell Lemmon

8:00pm EST

Countertop Chants: January Poetry Session Canopy Room
 
Wednesday, January 24
 

10:30am EST

Movement Language Nature Art workshop OnlineRebecca R Burrill

12:00pm EST

Dear Mothership: Poems Online

12:30pm EST

Online Poetry — Sparks in the Dark Online

7:30pm EST

Freeverse! Team Slam at Mill City Speaks ft. Febo Coffee and Cotton

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, January 25
 

TBA

IAWA in Boston Presents I Am BooksMarianne Leone

5:00pm EST

Free Playful Poetry Workshop Online

6:30pm EST

Boston Voices: An Evening of Poetry and Connection Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
 
Friday, January 26
 

1:00pm EST

Curt Curtin @ Tatnuck Bookseller Tatnuck Bookseller and Cafe

7:00pm EST

Martín Espada with Luke Salisbury, Floaters TBA
 
Saturday, January 27
 

10:00am EST

Walking Readers Group: Selected Poems by Mary Oliver Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary

12:00pm EST

Online Poetry Series: The Refuge of Witnessing featuring Tres Abuelas y Una Mamá. OnlineCarolina Hospital • Nicole Hospital-Medina • Holly Iglesias • Maureen Seaton

8:30pm EST

Dirty Gerund Poetry Show ft. Lynne Schmidt Ralph's Rock DinerLynne Schmidt
 
Sunday, January 28
 

6:00pm EST

Amesbury Public Library Poetry Series Amesbury Public Library Museum Of Poets MA 124 Main Street, Spencer, MA 01562

7:00pm EST

Poetry Readings: Cheryl Savageau, David Surette, Ellen LaFlèche and Steven Riel TBA Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Thirsty Lab Reading Series: Michael Milligan 206 Worcester RoadMichael Milligan The Poetorium at Starlite Reading Series & Open Mic Featuring Richard H. Fox Starlite Bar & GalleryRon Whittle • Paul Szlosek Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, January 29
 

TBA

Stone Soup series Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery

6:30pm EST

Queer Poetry Open Mic 10 Fiske Ave, Greenfield MA 01301

8:00pm EST

Porsha Olayiwola Features at the Boston Poetry Slam Cantab LoungeBoston Poetry Slam

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, January 30
 

TBA

Deep Curation: an experimentally curated poetry reading Boston Playwrights' TheatreLee Ann Brown • Sawako Nakayasu • Klara Du Plessis Poetry & Open Mic Night w/ Amanda Coleman Cleat and Anchor
 
Wednesday, January 31
 

12:30pm EST

Online Poetry — Sparks in the Dark Online

7:00pm EST

Author Talk: The Art of the Memoir Follow Your Art Community StudiosCalvin Hennick • Mimi Lemay

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, February 1
 

5:00pm EST

reflection | regeneration | renewal Poetry Reading Online

5:45pm EST

WDtS Mattapan: The Return of Deconstructing the Short Story OnlineQuentin Lucas
 
Friday, February 2
 

1:00pm EST

Poetry: The Art Of Words Plymouth Public Library Otto Fehlow Meeting RoomTzynya L. Pinchback

2:00pm EST

Temple Sinai’s 11th Annual Poetry Festival Temple SinaiRachel Kann

7:00pm EST

THE WORD – OPEN MIC POETRY 13 Church Street, Ware, MA 01082 Moonlighting Featuring Keely Fae & Justice Ameer THE DEMOCRACY CENTER , 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA (HARVARD SQUARE)Justice Ameer • Keely Fae
 
Sunday, February 4
 

10:30am EST

Generative Writing Workshop: Bird Poems Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary

2:00pm EST

15th Annual Jewish Poetry Festival Temple Sinai

3:00pm EST

Concord Poetry at the Library Series presents January Gill O’Neil Concord Free Public Library

7:00pm EST

Black History Month Open Mic & Karaoke Night! Make Shift BostonFEMS Tournament
 
Monday, February 5
 

TBA

Xandria Phillips McCormack Family TheaterXandria Phillips

11:00am EST

Virtual Poetry Writing Workshop with Susan Roney-O’Brien OnlineSusan Roney-O’Brien

7:00pm EST

WCPA Board Meeting WCPA Office @ the Sprinkler Factory 40 Acres and A Slam:- Black History Month Edition: An Evening of Rhythm, Rhymes, and Reparations Online

8:00pm EST

Tatiana M.R. Johnson Features at the Boston Poetry Slam Cantab LoungeTatiana M.R. Johnson • Boston Poetry Slam

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, February 6
 

TBA

Barbara Thomas Andala Cafe

3:00pm EST

Poetry As Portraiture and Remembrance: Reading and Q&A with Moira Linehan and Angela Narciso Torres OnlineMoira Linehan • Angela Narciso Torres

4:30pm EST

Experience and Experiment: Prose Writing Series Shattuck Hall, Cassani Room (102) (Mt. Holyoke)Gwendolyn Edward

7:00pm EST

Poetry at the Y Reading Series (Virtually via Zoom) - POETRY READING & Open Mic Online

8:00pm EST

CAConrad + Dawn Lundy Martin The Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts AmherstCAConrad • Dawn Lundy Martin Visiting Writers Series: CA Conrad and Dawn Lundy Martin UMass Amherst, Great HallCAConrad • Dawn Lundy Martin
 
Wednesday, February 7
 

TBA

Patricia Cleary Miller TBAPatricia Cleary Miller Unearthed Song & Poetry Home.stead Bakery and CafeTamiko Beyer Old Manse Poetry in the Parlor Series, New England Poetry Club The Old ManseCynthia Bargar • Adnan Onart Poetry at the Y West Suburban YMCAJoey Gould Jackie Wang McCormack Family Theater

6:30pm EST

Poetry at Hale Hale Education, Inc.

7:00pm EST

Bradley Trumpfheller: Reconstructions Book Release Brookline BooksmithBradley Trumpfheller First Fridays Youth Open Mic ft. Ariana Brown First Baptist ChurchAriana Brown Unearthed Song & Poetry Open Mic home.stead caféTamiko Beyer

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, February 8
 

TBA

The Liminal Reading Series MIT Press BookstoreJosé Angel Araguz • Ariana Reines Wake up and Smell the Poetry 77 Main Street Hopkinton, MaHoward J. Kogan • Mark Lipman

2:00pm EST

Curt Curtin @ Annie's Book Stop Annie's Book Stop (Worcester) Temple Sinai’s Twelfth Annual Poetry Festival Featuring Marge Piercy TBA

5:30pm EST

United in Poetry Workshop for Grades 6-9 Norton Public Library

7:00pm EST

Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & Timothy Gager Feature Reading) Cofounder/cohost Wayne-Daniel Berard's home Poetic Recovery Make-It SpringfieldMaurice Taylor
 
Friday, February 9
 

TBA

Concord Poetry at the Library Series Concord Free Public LibraryEve Linn • Jason Tandon

3:00pm EST

New Poetry and Open Mic Center for the Arts at the ArmoryEdison Dupree

6:30pm EST

Memoir Incubator Open House & Info Session Online
 
Saturday, February 10
 

6:00pm EST

Winter Warmup with Wine and Poetry Menino Arts Center

6:30pm EST

Memoir Incubator Open House & Info Session - Remote! TBAAlysia Abbott
 
Sunday, February 11
 

TBA

Raquel Salas Rivera UMASS-Boston, Creative Writing MFARaquel Salas Rivera Inaugural Michael True Memorial Poetry Reading Assumption College, Jeanne Y. Curtis Performance Hall in the Tsotsis Family Academic CenterBruce Smith Cameron Awkward-Rich Bethlehem Chapel, Brandeis UniversityCameron Awkward-Rich

4:00pm EST

Pondering the Pandemic During the Rust Years: A Virtual Poetry Reading with Joe Fusco OnlineJoe Fusco Jr.

5:30pm EST

February Friday Night Writes Online

6:00pm EST

NOVELIST STEVEN DUNN & POET LORA STRAUB MassArt, Kennedy, 406Steven Dunn

7:00pm EST

How to Write Love Poems Without Cliche Online Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Newton Free Library Poetry Series Newton Free LibraryJames Najamar • Joyce Wilson • Ravi Yelamanchili
 
Monday, February 12
 

12:00pm EST

Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP): A Workshop of Weird Online Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP): Art Talks Back: Exploring Ekphrastic Poetry Online Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP): Writing Inspired by Found Objects Online

7:00pm EST

Shelter: The Art of Caring -- Virtual Poetry & Prose Reading TBAStephan Anstey • Diamond Asaneh • Suzanne Beebe • Douglas Bishop • MJ Bujold • Charles Gargiulo • Nancy Jasper • S.C. Thibodeau • PJ Wamala

7:30pm EST

The Arts and the Experience of Nature Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education CenterStephen Schmidt Poetry/Photo slideshow at Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center

8:00pm EST

The Poetry Brothel: Circus of Love Sonia
 
Tuesday, February 13
 

TBA

Tracie Morris McCormack Family TheaterTracie Morris

3:00pm EST

“A Walk in the Woo” Worcester’s Rain Poets Read Park View RoomKate Gregoire • Eve Rifkah

6:00pm EST

The Poetry Brothel Boston: Feverdream 1 Bow Market Way (Upstairs), Somerville, MA 02143

7:00pm EST

Newton Library Poetry Reading and Open Mic (In person!) TBA

7:30pm EST

CHAPTER AND VERSE LITERARY READING SERIES OnlineSusan Buttenwieser • Scott Withiam
 
Wednesday, February 14
 

TBA

Chapter and Verse Literary Reading Series TBABill Banfield • Jim LaFond-Lewis • Clara Eugenia Ronderos

5:30pm EST

Love Poems After Dark Black Sheep Bah-Bah-Q & Kitchen

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, February 15
 

1:00pm EST

The Brockton Library Poetry Series: Everyone Has a Voice Driscoll Gallery, Brockton Public LibraryLola Bennett • Ally Brioso

3:00pm EST

Savoring Love: Poetry from the Heart: Rich Youmans, Alice Kociemba and an open mic Woods Hole Public Library

4:00pm EST

Raquel Balboni Book Launch Outpost 186Raquel Balboni
 
Friday, February 16
 

12:30pm EST

February Seaport Free Writes GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing February Grubby Desk Lunch OnlineMeghan Lamb

1:00pm EST

Longfellow Days 2020 Curtis Memorial LibraryJane Costlow • Audrey Gidman • David Sloan

2:00pm EST

Brookline Poetry Series Hunneman Hall, Brookline Village LibraryTanya (Tingyu) Liu
 
Saturday, February 17
 

TBA

Patricia Cleary Miller Grolier Book Shop

11:00am EST

Poetry Writing Workshop with Diannely Antigua Hamilton-Wenham Public Library

12:00pm EST

Online Poetry Series: The Refuge of Witnessing featuring Owen Lewis OnlineOwen Lewis

3:00pm EST

Free Verse Poetry Slam Winter Fest 2024 Gallery Z Visual And Performing Arts Center

7:00pm EST

Small Press Book Club Discusses: Homie by Danez Smith Brookline Booksmith

7:30pm EST

2022 Michael True Memorial Reading Assumption College, Jeanne Y. Curtis Performance Hall in the Tsotsis Family Academic CenterDavid Thoreen • Jonathan Blake
 
Sunday, February 18
 

6:00pm EST

Poem-Your Conscious - A Spoken Word Soiree Historic Strand Theatre

7:00pm EST

First and Last Word Poetry Series Arts at the Armory CaféChris O’Carroll Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe

7:30pm EST

Kathleen Graber @ the Poetry Center Smith College Campus Center, Carroll RoomKathleen Graber
 
Monday, February 19
 

2:00pm EST

Booklovers’ Gourmet Open Mic Poetry Share Booklovers' GourmetRobert Eugene Perry

6:00pm EST

Boston Originals Series Woodberry Poetry RoomAriana Reines • James Stotts

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, February 20
 

TBA

Cervena Barva Press reading Arts at the Armory/Basement B8

4:15pm EST

History Reconsidered: Poetry Reading with Clint Smith Knafel Auditorium, Radcliffe Institute

6:00pm EST

Poetic Forms Writing Workshop led by Paul Szlosek Bedlam Book CafePaul Szlosek Salamander Issue #49 Release Party Suffolk University Poetry CenterSonya Larson • David Moloney

7:00pm EST

Rescue Press Poetry Reading @ Amherst Books Amherst BooksCaren Beilin • Hannah Brooks-Motl • Melissa Dickey • Tessa Micaela
 
Wednesday, February 21
 

11:00am EST

Virtual Panel Discussion Featuring New England Poets OnlineMeg Kearney

2:00pm EST

Into the Mystery: The BodyPoem OnlineAudrey Gidman

7:00pm EST

Breakwater Reading Series February Reading 56 Brattle Street Cambridge

7:30pm EST

The Juke: a Blues Bacchae Arts at the Armory Café

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, February 22
 

3:00pm EST

Gloria Mindock Arts at the Armory/Basement B8

6:00pm EST

Novel Immersive for LGBTQ+ Writers Open House & Info Session OnlineOni Buchanan • Milo Todd • GrubStreet

7:00pm EST

A virtual Thirsty Lab with Moira Linehan ZoomSusan Roney O'Brien • Moira Linehan CANON, CANYON, CANNON: ALL BLACK EVERYTHING Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum Curt Curt @ the Fourth Saturday Open Mic Barnes & Noble Bookstore (Worcester)

7:30pm EST

The Juke: A Blues Bacchae Arts at the Armory Café
 
Friday, February 23
 

TBA

The Liminal Reading Series MIT Press BookstoreDarcie Dennigan • Elaine Kahn Worcester County Poetry Association Annual Meeting First Unitarian Church, WorcesterMaudelle Driskell
 
Saturday, February 24
 

TBA

Blacksmith House Poetry Blacksmith HouseJudith Baumel • Jason Tandon

1:00pm EST

Nature Zine-Making Workshop Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary

7:00pm EST

Book Launch for Harris Gardner's "No Time for Death" OnlineHarris Gardner Black Box Reading Series (Poetry, Fiction, etc) Boston Playwrights' Theatre
 
Sunday, February 25
 

TBA

Joan Naviyuk Kane MIT Stata Center

6:00pm EST

Bill Coyle Amesbury Public Library A Vocarium Reading: Natalie Diaz and Ocean Vuong Menschell Hall Harvard Art MuseumsNatalie Diaz • Ocean Vuong Museum Of Poets MA 124 Main Street, Spencer, MA 01562

7:00pm EST

Martín Espada — Author of Floaters at the Odyssey Bookshop OnlinePaul Mariani Martha Ackman The Odyssey BookshopMartha Ackmann Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe The Thirsty Lab Reading Series: John Hodgen 206 Worcester Road The Poetorium at Starlite Reading Series & Open Mic Featuring Ron Whittle Starlite Bar & GalleryPaul Szlosek
 
Monday, February 26
 

9:00am EST

Authors and Artists Festival: Writing the Land OnlineKatherine Hagopian Berry • Alice B. Fogel • John Francis • Dina Gilio-Whitaker • Jillian Hishaw • Angie Vasquez

7:15pm EST

The Boston Poetry Slam features RLynn Cantab LoungeRLynn

8:00pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, February 27
 

9:00am EST

Authors and Artists: Writing the Land OnlineDavid Crews • Ross Gay • Dina Gilio-Whitaker • Latria Graham • Rahawa Haile • Jillian Hishaw • JuPong Lin • Cheryl Savageau • Paul Richmond

6:00pm EST

African American History Month: Enzo Surin Poetry Reading & Workshop Boston Public Library - Mattapan Branch Getting to the Point with Richard Blanco Edward M. Kennedy Institute For the U.S. SenateRichard Blanco

6:30pm EST

An Evening with Acclaimed Author Andres Debus III TBA

7:00pm EST

Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic Roslindale HouseQueen Hodge • Maureen McElroy • Vivienne Shalom

8:00pm EST

Shayla Lawson @ Amherst Books Amherst BooksShayla Lawson Visiting Writers Series: Shayla Lawson UMass Amherst, Great HallShayla Lawson
 
Wednesday, February 28
 

2:00pm EST

Poetry Reading with Charles Coe Online

6:00pm EST

People's Poetry Slam New Bedford Art Museum

7:00pm EST

An Evening With Richard Blanco Pierce Hall, First Parish in BrooklineRichard Blanco Poetry Reading with Paul Szlosek and Eve Rifkah Bedlam Book CafeEve Rifkah • Paul Szlosek Poetry, the Natural World, the Climate Crisis, and Connection: A Reading and Workshop with Nadia Colburn, PhD. Brookline Public Library

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, February 29
 

6:00pm EST

A Poetry Reading with Sandra Lim The Barker Center, Room 133
 
Friday, March 1
 

2:00pm EST

Open Mic Poetry TBA

6:00pm EST

Brew & Forge Poetry Night: A Celebration of BIPOC Poetry in the Valley Northampton Center for the Arts

7:00pm EST

Grubbie Debut: Neema Avashia with E. B. Bartels GrubStreet Center for Creative WritingNeema Avashia • E. B. Bartels
 
Sunday, March 3
 

6:00pm EST

Marie Howe Tufts University

7:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Out Loud Semi-Finals Huntington Theatre Company

7:30pm EST

Monthly Open Mic! TBA
 
Monday, March 4
 

12:30pm EST

MCC Visiting Writers Series presents Kevin Carey Online

5:30pm EST

March Friday Night Writes OnlineMike Zendejas

8:00pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, March 5
 

7:00pm EST

WCPA Board Meeting for March 2020 WCPA Office @ the Sprinkler Factory

7:15pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam featuring Susanna Kitrredge Cantab LoungeBoston Poetry Slam
 
Wednesday, March 6
 

3:00pm EST

Sean Hill and Michael Kleber-Diggs: Concord Virtual Poetry at the Library Series OnlineSean Hill • Michael Kleber-Diggs Visions for a Nation in Balance: Sean Hill & Michael Kleber-Diggs OnlineSean Hill • Michael Kleber-Diggs

5:00pm EST

Amherst Arts Night Plus Open Mic and Features The Emily Dickinson Museum

5:30pm EST

Ann Cotten with Rosmarie Waldrop McCormack Family TheaterAnn Cotten • Rosmarie Waldrop

8:00pm EST

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, March 7
 

7:00pm EST

Poetry at the Y Series ft. Timothy Gager and Sarah Snyder West Suburban YMCASarah Snyder Deep Thoughts Poetry Open Mic (first Friday of every month) Bedlam Book Cafe March U35 Mass Poetry Reading Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Friday, March 8
 

4:30pm EST

Bilingual Poetry Reading: Hispanic Voices of the South Grolier Poetry BookshopFlorentino Diaz Ahumada • Dr. Enrique Bernales Albites • Jose Antonio Mazzotti • Juana Rosa Pita
 
Saturday, March 9
 

6:30pm EST

TEA AND TRANQUILITY: A RUMI-INSPIRED MEDITATION AND POETRY EXPERIENCE EveryBody in Mind Wellness Center
 
Sunday, March 10
 

7:00pm EDT

Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, March 11
 

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Open Mic with Urban Media Arts Urban Media Arts Poetry Reading and Open Mike Newton Free LibraryWyn Cooper • Nausheen Eusuf

7:30pm EDT

Jericho Brown @ the Poetry Center Weinstein Auditorium, Smith CollegeJericho Brown

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, March 12
 

1:00pm EDT

A Reading and Q&A with Martín Espada, a World Poetry series event Massasoit Community College

6:00pm EDT

Curt Curtin and Judy Ferrara Bedlam Book CafeNicole DiCello

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Reading with Curt Curtin and Judy Ferrara Bedlam Book CafeJudy Ferrara Four Poets at the Waltham Historical Society Waltham Historical Society

7:15pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam featuring Adam Falkner Cantab LoungeAdam Falkner • Boston Poetry Slam

7:30pm EDT

A Reading from spoKe six TBAJames Cook • John Mulrooney • David Rich

8:00pm EDT

Fatimah Asghar and Franny Choi: Poetry and Conversation Amherst BooksFatimah Asghar • Franny Choi
 
Wednesday, March 13
 

4:00pm EDT

Thresh & Hold Boston Center for the ArtsMarlanda Dekine

7:30pm EDT

CHAPTER AND VERSE LITERARY READING SERIES OnlineSally Bliumis-Dunn

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, March 14
 

11:00am EDT

A Light Breeze from Kerry: A Virtual Poetry Reading with Curt Curtin OnlineDee O'Connor

5:00pm EDT

Poetry Salon at Beacon Hill Books Beacon Hill Books & Cafe

7:00pm EDT

Matthew Lippman and Jacob Strautmann Brookline Booksmith Adam Falkner reading, "The Willies" TBAAdam Falkner Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & Mark Walsh Feature Reading) 51 Park Street, Unit 6, Mansfield, MA 02048 Anomaly Poetry Open Mic Night Co-Creative Center

7:30pm EDT

CANCELED - Chapter and Verse Literary Reading Series TBA
 
Friday, March 15
 

7:00pm EDT

Emerson College Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing Reading Series: Special Guest Martín Espada The Bill Bordy Theatre of Emerson CollegeMartín Espada LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic Coffee and CottonResi Ibañez Poetic Recovery Make-It SpringfieldMaurice Taylor
 
Saturday, March 16
 

2:00pm EDT

Everyone Has a Voice at Brockton Public Library Driscoll Gallery, Brockton Public Library
 
Sunday, March 17
 

2:00pm EDT

New England Poetry Club: Poetry at Fruitlands Fruitlands Museum

4:00pm EDT

A Parade of Poets for St. Patrick's Day OnlineDee O'Connor

7:00pm EDT

Ancient Poet Spotlight: Enheduanna Online Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, March 18
 

11:00am EDT

Kerry Dancers: A Family Portrait in Poetry Online

6:30pm EDT

Pakachoag Music School Presents Chasing Dreams to American Shores Online

7:00pm EDT

CANCELLED - David Ferry Suffolk University Poetry Center Poets & Plants Pemberton Farms March U35 Reading Series Trident Booksellers & CafeEmily Duggan • Egan Millard • Sarah O'Brien

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, March 19
 

7:15pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam featuring Lip Manegio Cantab LoungeLip Manegio • Boston Poetry Slam
 
Wednesday, March 20
 

5:30pm EDT

CANCELLED - Poetry Night Roxbury Heritage State ParkAshley-Rose Solomon

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, March 21
 

12:00pm EDT

Words Surviving Siege and War: Poems from Gaza OnlineWaleed Al-Akkad • Mona Al-Mosaddar • Hamed Ashour • Ne'ma Hasan • Tayseer Abu Odeh • Nasser Rabah • Mosab Abu Toha

2:30pm EDT

Poetry Writing Workshop with Susan Roney-O’Brien: Syllabics From Basho to Yeats and Beyond Online
 
Friday, March 22
 

10:00am EDT

Community Poetry Experience! Round 3 Olver Transit Pavillion

3:00pm EDT

Concord Poetry at the Library Series presents: An Afternoon with Allison Adair and Tiana Clark OnlineAllison Adair • Tiana Clark

7:00pm EDT

A virtual Thirsty Lab with JC Todd TBASusan Roney O'Brien • JC Todd Solidarity Salon The Community Church of BostonJudah Leblang • Lauren Leja • Lee Okan • Renuka Raghavan
 
Saturday, March 23
 

3:00pm EDT

John Mulrooney and Danielle Legros Georges @ Xit the Bear Reading Series The Press RoomJohn Mulrooney Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary Discussion with the New England Poetry Club Online

7:00pm EDT

Princeton Women’s Poetry Reading TBASusan Roney O'Brien

7:30pm EDT

OPEN MIC POETRY NIGHT Mickey's Gaming Lounge
 
Sunday, March 24
 

6:00pm EDT

Poetry Reading by Mary Szybist Katzenberg Center, 3rd floor, CGSMary Syzbist

7:00pm EDT

Across the Tracks: A Virtual Poetry Reading with Curt Curtin OnlineDee O'Connor Nixes Mate Poetry Reading/Book Launch Trident BookstoreBrad Rose Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, March 25
 

6:00pm EDT

Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading Amesbury Senior CenterEve Linn

7:00pm EDT

The Thirsty Lab Reading Series: Jenith Charpentier 206 Worcester Road

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, March 26
 

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Reading with Jason Tandon Bedlam Book CafeJason Tandon
 
Wednesday, March 27
 

5:00pm EDT

Author Talks: Cameron Awkward-Rich Library, W.E.B. Du Bois Room: 2601 UMass Amherst CampusCameron Awkward-Rich

7:00pm EDT

Evening of Inspired Leaders 2020 Huntington Theatre Company Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic Roslindale HouseKathleen McCann

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, March 28
 

6:30pm EDT

Poetorium @ the Starlite Lounge starlite lounge
 
Friday, March 29
 

4:00pm EDT

Alec Solomita and Philip Nikolayev Outpost 186Philip Nikolayev • Alec Solomita The Liminal Reading Series MIT Press BookstoreAlysia Abbott • Jim Cory

6:00pm EDT

IAWA Open Mic and Featured Reading I Am BooksJuliet Grames • Neil Zagarella

7:00pm EDT

CANCELED - A virtual Thirsty Lab with Jenith Charpentier TBASusan Roney O'Brien • Jenith Charpentier
 
Saturday, March 30
 

12:00pm EDT

Nature And Adventure Poetry Workshop Online

6:00pm EDT

He Dreams of Giants The Historic Cabot Theatre Poetry Extravaganza at Root and Press Café and Books Hosted by Joe Fusco Jr. & Featuring Paul Szlosek Root and Press LLCJoe Fusco Jr. • Paul Szlosek
 
Sunday, March 31
 

6:00pm EDT

Irish Voices: Poetry Reading by Alan Gillis and David Wheatley Katzenberg Center, 3rd floor, CGSAlan Gillis • David Wheatley

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Monday, April 1
 

6:00pm EDT

2022 Juniper Literary Festival: Mona Awad and Mai Der Vang Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts AmherstMona Awad A Student Poetry Reading The District Center for the Arts

7:00pm EDT

The Thirsty Lab Reading Series: Jeffrey Levine 206 Worcester RoadJeffrey Levine CANCELED: The Poetorium at Starlite Reading Series & Open Mic Featuring Jonathan Andersen Starlite Bar & GalleryRon Whittle • Paul Szlosek • Jonathan Andersen

8:00pm EDT

2022 Juniper Literary Festival: Live Lit Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts Amherst

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, April 2
 

4:00pm EDT

2022 Juniper Literary Festival: Emily Hunt, Robin McLean, Wendy Xu, and Jung Yun Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts Amherst

5:15pm EDT

POSTPONED - Harvard Divinity School Ingersoll Lecture with Anne Carson Norton's Woods Conference CenterAnne Carson

6:30pm EDT

Annual Poetry Reading and Open Mic Westwood Public Library

7:00pm EDT

Brandon Melendez & Courtney LeBlanc @ Porter Square Books TBACourtney LeBlanc • Brandon Melendez
 
Wednesday, April 3
 

12:30pm EDT

Online Poetry — Sparks in the Dark with Andrea Deeken Online

2:00pm EDT

Four Jennifers OnlineJennifer Jean • Jennifer Martelli • Jennifer Militello • Jennifer Markell

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Reading with Jason Tandon Milford Town Library

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, April 4
 

7:00pm EDT

New England Poetry Club: National Poetry Month at the Medford Historical Society Medford Historical Society
 
Friday, April 5
 

1:00pm EDT

Everything Begins Somewhere Book Launch & Reading Federal Street BooksAmanda Lou Doster

5:30pm EDT

CITIMIC Boston City Hall Square, Civic Pavilion

8:00pm EDT

"Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe" Opera The Huntington Theater
 
Saturday, April 6
 

10:00am EDT

Zoom Workshop - Line Breaks OnlineAdam Tessier First Breath GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing
 
Sunday, April 7
 

1:00pm EDT

New Book Launch at Worcester State University Worcester State University

7:00pm EDT

Haleh Liza Gafori, author of Gold, with Kythe Letitia Heller at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition TBAHaleh Liza Gafori • Kythe Heller Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Monday, April 8
 

6:00pm EDT

Poetry Reading by City of Worcester Poets Laureate Juan Matos and Amina Mohammed Worcester Public Library Saxe RoomJuan Matos • Amina Mohammed Martín Espada - A Reading, Book Signing, and Reception Shelburne-Buckland Community HallMartín Espada

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Tuesday, April 9
 

11:00am EDT

What’s Next? The Story of One Creative Journey OnlineJudith Ferrara 3 Poets, 3 Languages: A World Poetry 2020 Event Massasoit Community CollegeMirlande Butler • Messou Yourvina Fofana

12:00pm EDT

3 Poets, 3 Languages: A World Poetry 2020 Event Massasoit Community CollegeInes Figueroa

6:00pm EDT

Cathy Park Hong Forum Room, Lamont LibraryCathy Park Hong
 
Wednesday, April 10
 

12:30pm EDT

Online Poetry — Sparks in the Dark with Guy Reed Online

6:00pm EDT

CANCELLED - Joy Harjo Menschell Hall Harvard Art MuseumsJoy Harjo

6:30pm EDT

Nick Flynn--Stay Boston Public Library's Main BranchAlondra Bobadilla • Daniel Heyman

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, April 11
 

3:00pm EDT

The Cambridge Poetry MashUp: The KickOff TBA

6:30pm EDT

The Poetry Cafe Gallery Z Visual And Performing Arts Center

7:00pm EDT

Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & Tess Gordon Feature Reading) 51 Park Street, Unit 6, Mansfield, MA 02048 2024 Intercollegiate Poetry Showcase | Future In Verse: Spotlighting the Voices of Young Poets as Glimpses into the Future GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing
 
Friday, April 12
 

7:00pm EDT

Erika Meitner, author of Useful Junk, and Sarah Matthes, author of Town Crier, at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition TBASarah Matthes • Erika Meitner LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic Coffee and CottonResi Ibañez Poetic Recovery Make-It SpringfieldMaurice Taylor
 
Saturday, April 13
 

2:00pm EDT

Dear Friend, Let's Meet: A Roaming Poetry Reading Mount Auburn Cemetery

7:00pm EDT

The Power of Poetry OnlineElisa New

7:30pm EDT

SRP Broadside Reading & Craft Talk with Jendi Reiter & Armen Davoudian ZoomArmen Davoudian • J. Hyde Meissner • Jendi Reiter Harmony Grove with Special Guests Ketu Oladuwa and Samela and Patrick St. Pierre Amazing Things Art Center
 
Sunday, April 14
 

5:30pm EDT

Everywhere You Look: Writing Poetry Inspired by Your Experiences & Everyday Life OnlineSara Letourneau
 
Monday, April 15
 

7:00pm EDT

Poets of Worcester Present: A Writing Workshop with Worcester’s Poet Laureates OnlineJuan Matos • Amina Mohammed

7:30pm EDT

Natasha Trethewey and Megan Fernandes : Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series Leventhal Center AuditoriumMegan Fernandes • Natasha Trethewey
 
Tuesday, April 16
 

7:00pm EDT

Lynne Viti, Reading Westwood Public Library, Islington Branch Poetry Month Celebration with Mass. Book Award Poetry Winners Online Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Microphone TBA

8:00pm EDT

Visiting Writers Series: Mary Ruefle Bernie Dallas Room, UMass AmherstMary Ruefle
 
Wednesday, April 17
 

12:30pm EDT

Online Poetry — Sparks in the Dark with Perry Nicholas Online

7:00pm EDT

National Poetry Month with Martha Collins and Jason Tandon Wellesley BooksJason Tandon Queer + Trans Poetry and Prose Reading and Open Mic Art Building, Hinchcliff Reception Hall (Mt. Holyoke)
 
Friday, April 19
 

10:00am EDT

Community Poetry Experience! Blue Umbrella Books

1:00pm EDT

Signs of Your True Voice: First Words, Breakthroughs, Trust, and Transformation with Brenda Shaughnessy OnlineBrenda Shaughnessy

3:00pm EDT

Concord Poetry at the Library Series presents: Andrea Cohen / Fady Joudah OnlineFady Joudah The Cambridge Poetry MashUp Presents: The Poetry of Toni Morrison, a Workshop with The New England Poetry Club TBA

4:00pm EDT

The Liminal Reading Series MIT Press BookstoreMaggie Dubris • Michael Heller

4:30pm EDT

Miriam Levine Reading - Featuring Enzo Silon Surin Framingham State University, Heineman Ecumenical CenterEnzo Silon Surin
 
Saturday, April 20
 

12:30pm EDT

April Grubby Desk Lunch OnlineKarina Renee

5:30pm EDT

Summer 2022 Virtual Open House & Info Session Online

7:00pm EDT

Hybrid Reading Series: Rebecca Kaiser Gibson and Fred Marchant Grolier Poetry BookshopRebecca Kaiser Gibson • Fred Marchant
 
Sunday, April 21
 

7:00pm EDT

Kemi Alabi, author of Against Heaven, with Porsha Olayiwola TBAKemi Alabi • Porsha Olayiwola Changeable Gods - Richard Wollman - Book Launch Trustman Gallery Simmons CollegeRichard Wollman
 
Tuesday, April 23
 

12:00pm EDT

2022 Bishop/Knight College Poetry Contest Reading TBACraig Blais

6:00pm EDT

NBF Presents: Poetry in Protest OnlineToi Derricotte • Camonghne Felix • Terrance Hayes

7:00pm EDT

Omar Sakr, George Abraham, Chen Chen, and moira j Brookline BooksmithGeorge Abraham • moira j • Omar Sakr
 
Wednesday, April 24
 

12:30pm EDT

Online Poetry – Sparks in the Dark with Holly Iglesias & Landon Godfrey Online

5:30pm EDT

Free Happy Hour Writing Session - Remote OnlineLysz Flo

7:00pm EDT

Memorial Reading for Jane Kenyon TBA Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Microphone Roslindale HouseNancy Naomi Carlson Lynne Viti Heather Corbally Bryant/Tavi Gonzalez/Pamela Taylor celebrate the Bard's Birthday with Poetry Wellesley BooksHeather Corbally Bryant • Tavi Gonzalez
 
Thursday, April 25
 

3:00pm EDT

The Cambridge Poetry MashUp Presents: Poets in the Garden TBA

6:30pm EDT

Beals Prize for Poetry Beals Memorial Library
 
Friday, April 26
 

3:00pm EDT

Tuning in to a higher power: poems of prayer Online

6:00pm EDT

Christine Casson and Rita Ciresi I Am BooksRita Ciresi

7:00pm EDT

A virtual Thirsty Lab with Joe Fusco Jr. TBASusan Roney O'Brien • Joe Fusco Jr. April U35-U18 GrubStreet's Center for Creative Writing
 
Saturday, April 27
 

10:00am EDT

Poesia: A Celebration of Portuguese Poetry, Culture, & Fall River Poets Gates of the City | Heritage State Park | Visitors Center
 
Sunday, April 28
 

2:00pm EDT

Poetry at the Manse: Martha Collins, Merryn Rutledge, Timothy Gager The Old Manse

5:00pm EDT

Robert M. Gay Memorial Lecture — Poetry Reading with Martín Espada Linda K. Paresky Conference Center at Simmons UniversityMartín Espada • Richard Wollman

7:00pm EDT

How to Make a Poetry Book with DIY MFA Online
 
Monday, April 29
 

5:30pm EDT

Read and Write PoeTREE with Fay Ferency, Jess Rizkallah, and Letta Neely 111 Harbor WayFay Ferency • Letta Neely • Jess Rizkallah

6:30pm EDT

Berklee Slam Poetry! Oliver Colvin Recital Hall (1W)

7:00pm EDT

A National Poetry Month Event Wellesley Books The Thirsty Lab Reading Series: Patrick Donnelly 206 Worcester RoadPatrick Donnelly CANCELED: The Poetorium at Starlite Reading Series & Open Mic Featuring Eileen Cleary Starlite Bar & GalleryRon Whittle • Paul Szlosek
 
Tuesday, April 30
 

1:00pm EDT

Soul: An Ancestor Workshop w/ Marlanda Dekine Arnold ArboretumMarlanda Dekine

6:00pm EDT

The T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading: Claudia Rankine Knafel Auditorium, Radcliffe InstituteClaudia Rankine

6:30pm EDT

Writing Dramatic Monologue/Persona Poems through the Archetype of Grandmother Online
 
Wednesday, May 1
 

1:00pm EDT

Book Launch Party for Kate Hanson Foster's New Book of Poems, Crow Funeral 56 Island Street, Lawrence, MAKate Hanson Foster • Todd Hearon • Michael Kleber-Diggs • Matt W. Miller

6:00pm EDT

HERE ALL NIGHT: POETRY & COCKTAILS Boston Athenæum
 
Thursday, May 2
 

TBA

The Cambridge Poetry MashUp Presents: Future Leaders Read - youth & teen poetry TBA

5:00pm EDT

A Reading With Martín Espada Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts AmherstMartín Espada

6:30pm EDT

Poetorium at Starlite Poetry Open Mic & Reading Series (Featuring John Hodgen and Karen Sharpe) Starlite Bar & Gallery

7:00pm EDT

The Book of Delights with Ross Gay OnlineRoss Gay
 
Friday, May 3
 

6:00pm EDT

Write Here | Write Now | Speak Loud! Teen Spoken Word Festival GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing

7:00pm EDT

Joint Reading with Jeffrey Yang with Fanny Howe GrubStreet Center for Creative WritingFanny Howe • Jeffrey Yang
 
Saturday, May 4
 

12:00pm EDT

“There is a hornet in the room”: A Craft Talk and Poetry Reading About Insects with Robyn Schiff OnlineRobyn Schiff
 
Monday, May 6
 

12:30pm EDT

Brown Bag Lunch Session - Remote OnlineChalene Riser
 
Tuesday, May 7
 

6:00pm EDT

Author Talk with Lesléa Newman Storrs Library
 
Wednesday, May 8
 

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, May 9
 

7:00pm EDT

Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & Robbie Gamble Feature Reading) 51 Park Street, Unit 6, Mansfield, MA 02048
 
Friday, May 10
 

1:00pm EDT

Florence Poetry Carnival 90 Park Street, Florence, MassachusettsWanda Cook • Magdalena Gomez

7:00pm EDT

LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic Coffee and CottonResi Ibañez
 
Sunday, May 12
 

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Tuesday, May 14
 

5:30pm EDT

The Luminous Racetrack – Poetry Reading & Book Signing by Bill Tremblay Tidepool Bookshop, Llc
 
Wednesday, May 15
 

12:30pm EDT

Spark in the Dark — Joe Zaccardi Online

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, May 16
 

7:00pm EDT

Third Thursday Poetry: Miriam Levine, Tom Driscoll, Matthew Sisson Brookline Booksmith
 
Friday, May 17
 

3:00pm EDT

Concord Poetry at the Library Series presents: Krysten Hill and Cynthia Manick, A reading and conversation with Joyce Peseroff OnlineCynthia Manick
 
Saturday, May 18
 

3:00pm EDT

Arrowsmith Press: Spring 2020 Book Launch First Parish ChurchScott Harney • Oksana Zabuzhko

3:30pm EDT

Janet MacFadyen with photographer Stephen Schmidt: Poetry Reading & Slideshow Arms LibraryStephen Schmidt
 
Monday, May 20
 

6:00pm EDT

U35 Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Tuesday, May 21
 

6:30pm EDT

Five Darn Good Poets Arts at the Stone Church, First Congregational Church of Wareham, UCC
 
Wednesday, May 22
 

12:30pm EDT

Sparks in the Dark with Lisken Van Pelt Dus Online

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Saturday, May 25
 

6:30pm EDT

Amesbury Poetry Series John Greenleaf Whittier Home & MuseumJason Tandon
 
Sunday, May 26
 

2:00pm EDT

New England Poetry Club: Poetry at the Manse The Old Manse

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Monday, May 27
 

6:00pm EDT

Reading and Reception with Marie Gauthier Arms LibraryMarie Gauthier
 
Tuesday, May 28
 

7:00pm EDT

Sophie Cabot Black in Boston Brookline Public Library
 
Wednesday, May 29
 

12:30pm EDT

Sparks in the Dark with Lis Weiss Online

7:00pm EDT

Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic Zoom

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, May 30
 

6:30pm EDT

Poetorium at Starlite Poetry Open Mic (Featuring Jovonna Van Pelt & Jonathan Andersen) Starlite Bar & Gallery
 
Friday, May 31
 

2:00pm EDT

Book Discussion with Author and Poet Jennifer Freed OnlineJennifer Freed
 
Saturday, June 1
 

11:00am EDT

Poetry Writing 101 with Susan Roney-O’Brien: In Form, Conform, Reform Online

6:30pm EDT

Teen Summer Virtual Open House & Info Session Online
 
Sunday, June 2
 

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Wednesday, June 5
 

8:00pm EDT

Boston Poetry Slam Cantab Lounge
 
Thursday, June 6
 

2:30pm EDT

Poetry Writing Workshop with Susan Roney-O’Brien OnlineSusan Roney-O’Brien
 
Friday, June 7
 

11:00am EDT

Northfield Authors & Artists Festival Zoom
 
Sunday, June 9
 

7:00pm EDT

Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Monday, June 10
 

5:30pm EDT

June Friday Night Writes OnlineRolando Lopez

6:00pm EDT

Lit Crawl: Mass Poetry Presents Poems To Go featuring the Traveling Poetry Emporium Starlight SquareCassandra de Alba • Julia Story

7:00pm EDT

Daniel Johnson & Anthony Febo Menino Arts CenterFebo • Daniel Johnson
 
Tuesday, June 11
 

4:00pm EDT

All Morning the Crows: A Virtual Poetry Reading with Meg Kearney OnlineMeg Kearney
 
Wednesday, June 12
 

3:00pm EDT

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site & New England Poetry Club Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic SiteMagdalena Gomez • Enzo Silon Surin
 
Thursday, June 13
 

7:00pm EDT

Pour Me a Poem (Open Mic & Eric Petersen Feature Reading) 51 Park Street, Unit 6, Mansfield, MA 02048
 
Friday, June 14
 

11:00am EDT

Northfield Authors & Artists Festival Zoom

7:00pm EDT

Grubbie Debut: Dariel Suarez with Jonathan Escoffery, The Playwright's House OnlineGrubStreet Writers • GrubStreet LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic Coffee and CottonResi Ibañez
 
Saturday, June 15
 

3:00pm EDT

Poetry & Music for Palestine The Footlight Club
 
Sunday, June 16
 

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Tuesday, June 18
 

7:30pm EDT

Her Voice Among the Aisles: A Celebration of Emily Dickinson through Poetry & Song Follen Church SocietyLeona Cheung • Tom Daley • Annina Hsieh • Cammy Thomas • Tom Daley • Cammy Thomas
 
Wednesday, June 19
 

11:00am EDT

Fire Goes Out Without Wood: A Virtual Poetry Reading with Catherine Reed OnlineCatherine Reed

6:30pm EDT

Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Summer Reading Series OnlineSteven Cramer • Buki Papillon
 
Thursday, June 20
 

6:30pm EDT

Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Summer Reading Series OnlineJoan Houlihan • Sara Zarr
 
Friday, June 21
 

11:00am EDT

Northfield Authors & Artists Festival Zoom
 
Saturday, June 22
 

5:00pm EDT

Memorial Poetry Reading for the Late Joan Erickson Tidepool Bookshop, LlcEve Rifkah • Susan Roney-O’Brien • Paul Szlosek
 
Sunday, June 23
 

7:00pm EDT

Yoko Ono & The Fluxus Movement Online Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Tuesday, June 25
 

6:00pm EDT

The Hard Work of Hope Reading GrubStreet's Center for Creative Writing
 
Thursday, June 27
 

7:00pm EDT

Unearthing Debut Release Party ft. Joey Phoenix and Friends Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue
 
Friday, June 28
 

11:00am EDT

Northfield Authors & Artists Festival Zoom
 
Sunday, June 30
 

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe The Grand Reopening of the Poetorium at Starlite Poetry Reading Series Featuring Meg Smith Starlite Bar & Art GalleryMeg Smith • Paul Szlosek • Ron Whittle Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge
 
Wednesday, July 3
 

2:30pm EDT

Poetry Writing Workshop with Susan Roney-O'Brien OnlineSusan Roney O'Brien
 
Sunday, July 7
 

7:00pm EDT

Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam The Lizard Lounge NEPC Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Jane Attanucci, Charlot Lucien, Lawrence Kessenich TBAJane Attanucci • Lawrence Kessenich • Charlot Lucien Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Tuesday, July 9
 

4:00pm EDT

Poetic Beasts: A Virtual Panel of Poets Discussing Animals OnlineMaura MacNeil • Susan Roney O'Brien • B.G. Thurston
 
Wednesday, July 10
 

3:00pm EDT

Longfellow Summer Poetry Festival: Martha Collins and Philip Nikolayev Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic SiteMartha Collins • Philip Nikolayev
 
Thursday, July 11
 

12:30pm EDT

Shelter in Place: Writing Where We Are (7 week poetry workshop) OnlineSophie Khlar
 
Friday, July 12
 

7:00pm EDT

LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic Coffee and CottonResi Ibañez
 
Saturday, July 13
 

3:00pm EDT

Rosebud Ben-Oni: Poet Wrestling in the Land of a Thousand Dances OnlineRosebud Ben-Oni
 
Sunday, July 14
 

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Open Mic Night at Trident Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Thursday, July 25
 

12:00am EDT

Slate Roof Press Chapbook Contest/Elyse Wolf Prize TBA
 
Saturday, July 27
 

11:00am EDT

Cross-Border Poetry Open Mic OnlineJuPong Lin • Robert Eugene Perry

3:00pm EDT

Afaa Michael Weaver: Spirit Boxing Online
 
Tuesday, July 30
 

7:00pm EDT

An evening of poetry with four poets Cary Memorial LibrarySusan Goodman
 
Wednesday, August 7
 

2:30pm EDT

Poetry Writing Workshop with Susan Roney-O'Brien OnlineSusan Roney O'Brien
 
Saturday, August 10
 

3:00pm EDT

María Luisa Arroyo & Peter Covino: Poetry in Translation Online
 
Tuesday, August 13
 

4:00pm EDT

Open Mic Friday Online
 
Sunday, August 18
 

7:00pm EDT

Danez Smith presents Homie Cambridge Public LibraryDanez Smith
 
Sunday, August 25
 

3:00pm EDT

NEPC Reading at Longfellow House Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic SiteKymm Coveney • J. Kates
 
Sunday, September 8
 

6:30pm EDT

Podcasting for Everyone: Getting Started Is Easier Than You Think! (In-person Event) GrubStreetGrubStreet
 
Wednesday, September 11
 

12:00pm EDT

POETRY: The Art Of Words/Mike Amado Memorial Series Plymouth Center for the Arts

3:30pm EDT

Benefit for the Boston National Poetry Month Festival, 2018 Sonia 10 Brookline Ave, Cambridge MA
 
Thursday, September 12
 

7:00pm EDT

Workshop for Publishing Poets: PoemWorks Newtonville Books
 
Friday, September 13
 

5:00pm EDT

Mass Poetry Unplugged at Prudential Center Boylston Plaza

6:00pm EDT

Jennie Chu, Eleanor Goodman, Maria Jose Gimenez, Sekyo Haines, Antonio Ochoa, and Donald Wellman Cambridge Public Library Poetry Reading Cambridge Public Library

7:00pm EDT

Chuck Carlise Poetry Reading and Book Signing Trident Booksellers & Cafe
 
Sunday, September 15
 

6:00pm EDT

Night Slam Stacy Adams Cultural Arts Building

7:00pm EDT

Caroline Smith Poetry Reading Grolier Book Shop Duxbury Poetry Circle Duxbury Library Caroline Smith Grolier Book Shop
 
Monday, September 16
 

7:00pm EDT

The Civic Role of Poetry: For, By & Of the People with Richard Blanco Follen Church SocietyRichard Blanco Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic OnlineSusan Donnelly • James Whitley
 
Tuesday, September 17
 

2:00pm EDT

Brockton Library Poetry Series 'Everyone Has A Voice' Driscoll Gallery, Brockton Public Library

3:00pm EDT

Powow Poetry reading series Newburyport Public Library

4:00pm EDT

Boston AIR 2.0 Celebration Emerson Urban Arts Media Gallery
 
Wednesday, September 18
 

2:00pm EDT

Brookline Poetry Series TBA Plein Air Poetry Walk Old Frog Pond Farm & StudioHeather Corbally Bryant Plein Air Poetry Walk Old Frog Pond Farm & StudioHeather Corbally Bryant

4:00pm EDT

Gallery of Readers series 2017-2018 opening reading! Smith College, Seelye Hall

7:00pm EDT

Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic OnlineEd Meek • Deana Tavares
 
Thursday, September 19
 

2:00pm EDT

Book Launch for Convictions of the Heart by John L. Holgerson The District Center for the ArtsRichard Berg • John L. Holgerson

4:00pm EDT

teXtmoVes Starlight SquareNina Alonso • Judson Evans • Doug Holder • Liz Keen • Karen Klein • LoGalluccio • Elizabeth Gordon McKim • Marlena Merrin • Michael Winward • Doug Holder
 
Friday, September 20
 

9:00am EDT

Kerri French, Jennifer Militello, and Sarah Sweeney Trident Booksellers & CafeKerri French • Sarah Sweeney

5:30pm EDT

Writing a Black Trans Past OnlineCameron Awkward-Rich

7:00pm EDT

Arvind Mehrotra Smith College Poetry Center Arvind Mehrotra Poetry Reading Smith College Poetry Center Newton Free Library Poetry Series Newton Free Library
 
Saturday, September 21
 

7:00pm EDT

Salon of Shorts BARN AT COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
 
Sunday, September 22
 

5:30pm EDT

Fall 2022 Open House & Info Session GrubStreetGrubStreet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Poetry Reading McCormack Family Theater

7:00pm EDT

For the Love of Words ECAT STUDIOS
 
Monday, September 23
 

6:30pm EDT

Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading OnlineTherese Broderick • Ellie O'Leary
 
Tuesday, September 24
 

7:00pm EDT

Carle Johnson at Barnes & Noble 4th Saturday Poetry Open Mic Barnes & Noble Booksellers
 
Wednesday, September 25
 

3:00pm EDT

Frank O'Hara Prize Poetry Winners Reading First Unitarian Church, Worcester The Winners’ Reading for the WCPA Poetry Contest: The Frank O’Hara Prize First Unitarian Church

4:00pm EDT

Art on the Trails Ekphrastic Poetry Art Exhibit Closing Event Beals Preserve

6:30pm EDT

A Celebration of Leonard Cohen In Song, Dance, & Poetry Arts and the Armory main stageDavid Gullette
 
Thursday, September 26
 

12:00pm EDT

Joanna Klink and Monica Youn Stratis Haviaras Poetry Reading Thompson RoomJoanna Klink
 
Friday, September 27
 

5:00pm EDT

Mass Poetry Unplugged at Prudential Center Boylston Plaza

5:30pm EDT

Writers Read Monthly Reading Series~At the Lee Library Lee Library

6:00pm EDT

Amesbury Public Library Opens Fall Poetry Series with Featured Poet Toni Treadway Amesbury Public Library

7:00pm EDT

Brockton Poetry Series features Anita D Brockton ArtsAnita D

7:30pm EDT

Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown Poetry Reading Smith College, Alumnae House Conference Hall
 
Saturday, September 28
 

6:30pm EDT

Richard Hoffman, Fred Marchant, and Jill McDonough Poetry Reading Main Lecture Hall Cambridge Public Library Why Thoreau Still Matters: Lessons on Environmentalism & Civil Disobedience Old South Meeting House

7:00pm EDT

Michelle Hoover, Patricia Horvath, and Sam Witt Poetry Reading TBAMichelle Hoover • Patricia Horvath • Sam Witt
 
Sunday, September 29
 

3:00pm EDT

No Human is Illegal: A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye on Breaking Down Walls with Poetry Worcester Art MuseumNaomi Shihab Nye

6:00pm EDT

Black Orators: By Word and By Pen African American Meeting House at the Museum of African American History

7:00pm EDT

Tribute to Marc Widershien 120 Poplar Street RoslindaleGreg Hall Rozzie

7:30pm EDT

Wendy Drexler and Susan Donnelly Cervena Barva Press Studio Arts at the Armory, Basement B8
 
Wednesday, October 2
 

11:00am EDT

Poetry Writing Workshop with Susan Roney-O’Brien OnlineSusan Roney O'Brien
 
Thursday, October 3
 

1:00pm EDT

Writing the Land Poets' Book Launch OnlineKatherine Hagopian Berry • Mike Bove • Robert Carr • Ann Day • Alice B. Fogel • Jason Grundstrom-Whitney • Jesse Lovasco • Suzanne Rancourt
 
Friday, October 4
 

7:00pm EDT

Solidarity Salon/ Virtual Version OnlineAllison Adair • Karen Frieland • Jenna Le • Kevin McLellan
 
Tuesday, October 8
 

7:00pm EDT

Rozzie Reads Poetry and Open Mic OnlineYves Mary Jean
 
Wednesday, October 9
 

4:00pm EDT

Peculiar Heritage: A Virtual Poetry Reading with DeMisty D. Bellinger OnlineDeMisty Bellinger

7:00pm EDT

Virtual Special Event: Bobby LeFebre Shares His Social Justice Poetry OnlineBobby LeFebre
 
Saturday, October 26
 

11:00am EDT

Jump Start: Poetry Workshop Goethe-Institut BostonCharles Coe Poetry as a Radical Act Goethe-Institut Boston

12:30pm EDT

Blue Flare: Haitian Women Poets of the Now Goethe-Institut Boston Braving the Body: A Generative Writing Poetry Workshop

2:00pm EDT

Boston Book Festival Poetry Headliners Goethe-Institut Boston

3:30pm EDT

Poetry Off the Page Newsfeed Cafe at Boston Public Library Revise, Revise!: Poetry Workshop Goethe-Institut Boston

6:30pm EDT

Poems & Pints Room & Board Boston
 
Monday, October 28
 

7:00pm EDT

The Invention of the Darling: An Evening of Poetry with Li-Young Lee Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington, MALi-Young Lee
 
Tuesday, October 29
 

7:00pm EDT

Ari Banias presented by the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center Weinstein Auditorium, Wright HallAri Banias

7:30pm EDT

The Poetry Brothel: Scream, Queen! 1 Bow Market Way (Upstairs), Somerville, MA 02143
 
Sunday, November 3
 

2:00pm EST

Poetry and Music at Medford Brewing Company 30 Harvard AveMax Heinegg • Julia Lisella • Marlena Merrin • Leticia Priebe Rocha • Vijaya Sundaram
 
Thursday, November 7
 

7:30pm EST

Gather In Poems (Online) OnlineJennifer Benka • Carolyn Forché • Andrea Gibson • Robert Hass • Joseph Rios • Diane Seuss • Patricia Smith • Tracy K. Smith • Tree Swenson • Robin Walter • Avery R. Young
 
Friday, November 8
 

7:30pm EST

Chapter and Verse: Caplan, Carney Goodrich, Pawlak Loring-Greenough HouseShari Caplan • Linda Carney Goodrich • Mark Pawlak
 
Saturday, November 9
 

1:00pm EST

Moira Linehan Memorial Reading Andover Bookstore

3:00pm EST

Zumi's Open Mic Featuring Jack Giaour Zumi's Espresso & Ice CreamJack Giaour

5:00pm EST

Zumi's Open Mic Ipswich Zumi's Espresso & Ice Cream

5:30pm EST

Poetry Reading & Open Mic at The Captain's Manor Inn The Captain's Manor InnSara Letourneau
 
Sunday, November 10
 

4:30pm EST

An Evening of Movement: Music and Poetry St. Augustine African Orthodox Christian ChurchJimena Bermejo • Judson Evans • Sakurako Kanemitsu • Alli Ross
 
Monday, November 11
 

7:00pm EST

An Evening With Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, Diane Seuss, and Martha Silano (Online) OnlineAileen Cassinetto • Luisa A. Igloria • Diane Seuss • Martha Silano
 
Tuesday, November 12
 

7:00pm EST

John Murillo and Nicole Sealey presented by the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College Weinstein Auditorium, Wright HallJohn Murillo • Nicole Sealey
 
Thursday, November 14
 

6:00pm EST

AI & the Creative Writing Life OnlineKatie Dozier • Keith Holyoak • Jennifer Jean • Oliver de la Paz

7:00pm EST

Reading at Galleries at Lynn Arts 25 Exchange StElizabeth Gordon McKim • Margaret Young Pour Me a Poem Cofounder/cohost Wayne-Daniel Berard's homeWayne-Daniel Berard • Sara Letourneau
 
Friday, November 15
 

7:00pm EST

Wild Hearts Open Mic, featuring Sara Letourneau Wild Heart Herb HouseSara Letourneau
 
Sunday, December 15
 

3:00pm EST

An Afternoon with the New England State Poets Laureate OnlineJulia Bouwsma • Antoinette Brim-Bell • Colin Channer • Jennifer Militello • Bianca Stone
 
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