The Salem Poetry Seminar, sponsored by the Salem State Center for Creative and Performing Arts, is a free, week-long seminar, offering students at the Commonwealth's public institutions of higher education the opportunity to study poetry intensively with accomplished teachers and writers. The seminar, to be held June 5-8, will bring 12 young poets together to study, with a "master class" held by acclaimed poet Afaa Michael Weaver. Seminar poetry readings are free and open to the public. This year's reading schedule is as follows:
- Tuesday, June 5, 7:30 p.m.
Salem Theatre Company, 90 Lafayette Street
Featured Readers: Kevin Carey, Charlotte Gordon
Student Poets: Steven Durta, Rebecca Mueller, Jacob Reecher, Kayla Russell - Wednesday, June 6, 7:30 p.m.
Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex Street
Featured Readers: J.D. Scrimgeour, Claire Keyes
Student Poets: Felicia Connolly, Lillian Donnelly, Emily Hatch, William Regan - Thursday, June 7, 7:30 p.m.
Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex Street
Salem Poetry Seminar Alumni Reading and Open Mic - Friday, June 8, 7:30 p.m.
Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex Street
Featured Reader: Afaa Michael Weaver
Student Poets: Sara Afshar, Ashley De Souza, JD Debski, Lyndon Seitz
J.D. Scrimgeour, Program Director, jscrimgeour@salemstate.edu, (978) 587-7082
January O'Neil, Project Manager, joneil@salemstate.edu, (978) 239-2598
Karen Gahagan, Salem State Center for the Arts, kgahagan@salemstate.edu, (978) 542-7890
