Welcome! We will begin shortly.Captions are available! Click the “Live Transcript” button at the bottom of your zoom screen.Thank you to The Shipman Agency for sponsoring this event. To learn more, visit https://www.theshipmanagency.comNeed help with Zoom or can’t access an event? Call the Festival Helpline: (978) 230-7110Thank you for being kind and respectful!

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Where is everyone joining us from?

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Hello from NYC!

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Good foggy morning from Oakland, CA

I'm in Salem, MA!

Atlanta in the room!

Boston, MA!

Delighted to be tuning in from Cambridge, MA!

Quincy, MA

Swampscott, Ma!

Good morning from Los Angeles!

Sunshine on Lkwungen Territory - Victoria BC, Canada

Methuen, MA

Charlotte, NC. Masters from Salem State

Joining from Protection Island, Canada. A sunny spring morning here.

Brooklyn, NY!

Newburyport, MA

Hi all! Thanks for coming to the Festival, can't wait for this reading!

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Yay, Jennifer!

Go Jenn!!

yay Jen!

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Go Jenn!!!!

Jenn!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

I love this one!

"my words echoed off her sunburnt skin"

Beautiful Jennifer

I LOVE THIS

YES

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Loved that wow

yes yes!

"on the last warm night of their bright lives"

Go Jen! Nice

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awesome Jenn!

wonderful!

Wonderful, Jenn!

Whoot! Whoot! * I want the criss cross to show*!!!

“half-globed sadnesses” - I think that was the line in the first one. I love that poem. Well, all the poems, your objects and images and lists and all the ways you turn them, Jenn. Kaleidoscopic. Brilliant.

Hooray!!!

We’re glad you’re here, Ariana!

This is worth it!

We’re here because you are amazing! Marblehead, MA salutes you!!!!

this is a sermon and it is Sunday

<3 Ariana <3

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Generational trauma changes us biologically. We do need to talk about it to find peace and to heal.

Amen

Have you had a conversation with George Abraham?

We’re with you, though.

Yes. Here with you.

The 11 stars poem --

Here with you, thank you for sharing your story.

http://web.colby.edu/sp398b-sp2019/files/2019/02/Mahmoud-Darwish-Eleven-Stars-over-Andalusia.pdf sorry this is the text

Holy poem!

More please

Keep going!!!!

Ariana, your witness n poetry and prose challenges many of us to admit out loud or begin to recognize the shame and history that is ours. Thank you for your truth, your courage and invitation to conversation -- difficult and healing.

we can hear

"a rending, streaming, higher truth, a better flow"

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"I feel like there are all these neglected vehicles for time travel lying around"

your breath, your voice is a song from the flute in the hand of G-d.

“And I didn’t like that feeling and I won’t do it again” … thank you for that.

This is a cri de couer like “It’s A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” — stunning and provocative.

I hear Ginsberg, too

“Earth is a school” … “Maybe the invisible world will come a little closer” … “I want a musical life”… “I can’t write a poem without mixing things up”… “a melody with the junk I found while no one else was looking”… Thank you.

Thank you!

Wow! Those were fantastic!

What were the names of those poems?

A Lucent Fire was amazing!!!

Yay PSJ!

Beautiful Patricia, I’ve been ready to hear you read!

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Gorgeous!!!

wow!

Lovely true to heart poems!

powerful

well said

"many dreams and even more nightmares... and we can make stuff up and be inventive" AMEN

Who should believe in utopias, after the murder of so many?

Write beyond what people expect of you—that’s what I am thinking, having been so inspired by both these brilliant poets.

great!

"his holy hand unblemished by blood"..."the wolves in your throat have long since left you" great!

beautiful!

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My rooms are in ruins

"spread their cosmic maps unreadable"

Thank you!!! How wonderful!

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Thank you!

“the blue smoke haze - prophet for no one” … “the task at hand - survival” … “spastic paradise where dreams become destiny” … “is it enough to conjure worlds?” … “let’s try dancing the blues to smithereens” … “where is the fuckin’ funhouse?” … “and then doves are released, Brooklyn’s lungs exhaling” … “put the horses in the stable” … Thank you.

Feeling thankful for language after this reading.

that feeling really came across

thank you Patricia.

Thank you to all three readers and to all the Mass poetry folks. It has been an amazing return of the festival. Feeling fed and challenged and in community and grateful.

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Thank you for a wonderful reading!

Thank you all truly!

Thank you!

Marvelous