3rd Annual Dead Poets Remembrance Day in New England
to include 9 events this October
Salem, MA, April 20th – The schedule for the 3rd annual Dead Poets Remembrance Day celebrations in Massachusetts was announced today by the Dead Poet Guy, the founder of the Dead Poets Society of America.
“The 2012 community events will cover Western, Middle, and Eastern Massachusetts and include readings of 42 of the Bay State's illustrious dead poets," said Walter Skold. “Included in that will be cemetery-hopping to the graves of 21 poets, including those of Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Charles Olson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson."
At each of the 19 events the group will meet with local community members to hear poetry and presentations about each poet’s life and death, and people wishing to attend can either join the caravan for each day's events, or attend just one of the local readings that suits their poetic fancy.
All readings are free and open to the public, and a detailed schedule, along with maps to the poets’ graves, can be found at the event blog (http://deadpoets.typepad.com/dprd-ne/).
“It’s going to be an amazing 4 days of celebrating our dead poets," said Skold, who has visited the graves of 235 American poets over the last three years. "We have another great line-up of live poets to lead us in remembering our forebears."
Skold said they are looking for more readers to sign up and that final location of some of the holiday events and more keynote readers will be announced soon. As of now some of the readers will be Annie Finch, Carl Carlsen, Carle Johnson, Mark Stevick, Elizabeth Ferszt and Jim Schley.
Some of the highlights for this year's celebrations are:
- Sunset readings at the graves of Emily Dickinson and Michael Wigglesworth
- a Midnight reading of "The Raven" on Poe Corner, in Boston;
- a sunrise celebration of the poetry of Vincent Ferrini, in Gloucester,
- a special event remembering the poetry of John Updike, to be held in Beverley Farms;
- and readings at the graves of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Agha Shahid Ali, Edward Taylor, Elizabeth Bishop and Boston's 19th-Century "banker-poet" Charles Sprague.
Current groups partnering in the events are the Woodberry Poetry Room, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, the North Shore Community College, and Anne Bradstreet at 400.
The first Dead Poets Remembrance Day was held in October, 2010, when poets laureate in ten states read and remembered the poetry of their states' deceased bards.
Full Reading Schedule, and Maps of graves can be found at:
http://deadpoets.typepad.com/dprd-ne/
Contact : The Dead Poet Guey (Walter Skold) at: info@deadpoes.org
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