Festival · Salem, MA, USA
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
The Massachusetts Poetry Festival is a biennial literary celebration held in downtown Salem, Massachusetts, organized by Mass Poetry. As the largest poetry festival in New England, it presents over 80 in-person events, readings, workshops, panels, a Teen Track, and a Small Press Fair, alongside virtual lead-up programming. Participating poets are paid, and the festival also hosts community contests including the First Poem Contest and the New England Poetry Prize.
Open to poets
- Festival. Held Jul 31–Aug 1, 2027.
Official site: festival.masspoetry.org. Please confirm the details there before you submit.
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More places to send your poems
- The Massachusetts Review
- Matter of the Imagination
- Maudlin House
- Mayapple Press
- Maya's Micros (The Closed Eye Open)
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