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. If you’d like to be authorized to add events directly to the calendar, email programassistant@masspoetry.org.
Kevin Carey is a poet, fiction writer, playwright, & filmmaker. He has published three books of poetry, The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016), & Set in Stone (2020), a new novel, Murder in the Marsh (2020), and a chapbook of short stories, The Beach People (2014). His play, The Stand or Sal is Dead, premiered at the Actor’s Studio in Newburyport (2018), & his one act plays have been staged at The New Works Festival in Newburyport & The New Hampshire Theater Project. His co-written screenplay Peter’s Song won Best Screenplay at the 2009 New Hampshire Film Festival. He has co-directed & co-produced two documentary films about poets, including Unburying Malcolm Miller which premiered at the Mass Poetry Festival in 2017. His fiction & poetry have appeared in The Red Mountain Review, Silk Road, Rip Tide: Crime Stories by New England Writers, & elsewhere. Kevin Carey is the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University.
