Salem State poetry seminar from June 5-8

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 

For more information, please contact:
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