The Mass Poetry Festival, now in it’s 10th year, returns to downtown Salem May 4th through 6th. As always, the festival is priced for the poet’s pocketbook at only $30 a ticket and features panels like “Fathers, Present and Absent: Encounters, Enigmas, and Elegies” and “What Big Words You Have: Using Fairytales in Your Poetry.”
Their Small Press and Literary Fair will take place on Saturday, May 5th from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., located along the Pedestrian Mall between Peabody Essex Museum and Museum Place Mall.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.