Poetry Heat Wave! The 2017 Boston Poetry Marathon

The Boston Heat Wave Poetry Marathon is an annual weekend long poetry marathon– lasting from August 18 through August 20– at Outpost 186 in Inman Square.  Starting on Friday, poets are scheduled to read from 7pm through 10:30pm, Saturday from 12pm to 5:30pm and again from 7pm to 10:30pm, then finally Sunday from 12pm to 5:30pm. Each poet reads for 8 minutes. This event is free and open to the public.

Saturday’s line-up:

Sat Day

12:00 Kythe Heller
12:08 Andrew K. Peterson
12:16 Laurin Macios
12:24 Katie Raddatz
12:32 Jonathan Pappas
12:40 Darren Black

Break

12:50 Chad Parenteau
12:58 Martha McCollough
1:06 Rob Arnold
1:14 Heather Hughes
1:22 Ellen Steinbaum
1:30 Anne Champion

Break

1:44 Tom Daley
1:52 Chloe Garcia Roberts
2:00 MP Carver
2:08 Julia Story
2:16 Hamdi Mohamed
2:24 Olivia Thomes

Break

2:36 Audrey Mardavich
2:44 Daniel Pritchard
2:52 Clay Ventre
3:00 Simone John
3:08 Claudia Amador
3:16 Kurt Klopmeier

Break

3:30 Amelia Bentley
3:38 Heather Treseler
3:46 Gilmore Tamny
3:54 Maureen Thorson
4:02 Wendy Mnookin
4:10 Ben Mazer

Break

4:22 Janaka Stucky
4:30 Brittany Billmeyer-Finn
4:38 Zoe Tuck
4:46 Maria Damon
4:54 JD Debris
5:02 Adam Tedesco

Break

5:12 Mairead Byrne
5:20 David Rich
5:28 Suzanne Mercury

~Dinner~

Sat Night

7:00 Sam Cha
7:08 Susana Gardner
7:16 Joanna Fuhrman
7:24 Gale Batchelder
7:32 Mark Lamoreaux
7:40 Jasmine Dreame Wagner

Break

7:52 Jennifer Marie Bartlett
8:00 John Mulrooney
8:08 Carrie Bennett
8:16 Jim Stewart
8:24 Annie Won
8:32 Brenda Ijima

Break

8:46 Aaron Kiely
8:54 Sean Cole
9:02 Molly McGuire
9:10 Rob Macdonald
9:18 Gabriela Garcia
9:26 Jaime Zuckerman

Break

9:38 Trace Peterson
9:46 Christina Strong
9:54 Douglas Rothschild
10:12 Mitch Highfill
10:20 Emily Dickinson
10:28 Jane Austen

end of night