Dead Poets Remembrance Day in Massachusetts

19 Events : 42 Poets & 21 Graves in 4 Days

  • Full 19-Event Schedule
  • Maps/Directions
  • Celebrating the Millays
  • Edward Taylor & Dr. Seuss
  • Sunset w. Emily
  • Happy 400th Anne Bradstreet
  • Midnight Reading of The Raven
  • 8th:Sunrise w Ferrini
  • Harvard Bards @ Mt. Auburn

Holiday Event Details

  • Complete 19-Event Schedule
  • 2012 Press Release
  • Download Flyer
  • Maps & Directions
  • Partners & Keynote Readers
  • Oct 6th: Celebrating the Millays
  • From Edward Taylor to Dr. Seuss
  • At the Grave of Agha Shahid Ali
  • Sunset with Emily D. & Robert Frost
  • Oct. 7th: Bishop, Kunitz, O'Hara, Asher in Worcester
  • Happy 400th Anne Bradstreet!
  • The Preacher-Poets of Harvard
  • Remembering Phillis Wheatley
  • The Raven at Midnight!
  • Oct 8: Cape Anne - Ferrini, Olson, Phelps, Falt, Hartley, Larcom
  • 2 PM The Harvard Bards at Mt. Auburn
  • 7 PM: Celebrating John Updike
  • 2011 Press Release

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Complete 19-Event Schedule

Friday, October 5th

5 - 6:45 PM  Remembering The Millays @ Steepletop

Saturday, October 6th    

 10:00 - 11:00 Remembering Rachel Field and Robert Underwood Johnson

1:00 – 1:45 Edward Taylor’s grave, Westfield Rev. Edward Taylor

2:30  -  3:30  Dr. Seuss Springfield memorial Dr. Seuss

4:30 – 5:15 Northampton cemetery: Agha Shahid Ali

5:45 -  6:45 Emily Dickinson’s grave, Emily Dickinson, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost

Sunday October 7th      Celebrating the Dead Poets of Worcester 

12:30 – 2:00 PM Worcester, TBD  Elizabeth Bishop / Stanley Kunitz / Elise Asher / Frank O’Hara / Charles Olson / Dennis Brutus

3:30 – 5:00 PM North Andover; Happy 4ooth Anne Bradstreet  

6 – 6:30  Bell Rock Cemetery, Malden Death's Head at Sunset, Michael Wigglesworth 

7:30 – 9:00 Celebrating the Preacher-Poets of Harvard; Harvard Chapel? 

Reverends: Michael Wigglesworth, Edward Taylor, Timothy Flint, Jones Very, Thomas Higginson,

John Pierpont, Sr., James Freeman Clarke, Amos Wilder

10:00 - 11:00 Phillis Wheatley statue, Boston

11:30 - 11:50 Remembering Boston's Banker Poet Charles Sprague

Midnight recitation of "The Raven" at Poe Box, on Poe Corner, Boston

Monday, October 8th

Celebrating the Dead Poets of Cape Anne

6:00 AM Early Birds : Remembering Vincent Ferrini, Niles Beach :

10 – 11:00 AM Gloucester TBD : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Clarence Manning Falt / Marsden Hartley / Lucy Larcom /

11 – 11:30 at the grave of Charles Olson

Celebrating The Harvard Bards of the 20th Century at Mount Auburn

2:00 - 4:30 PM Mount Auburn cemetery,  Amy Lowell / Gamaliel Bradford VI / David McCord / John Ciardi / Robert Creeley / Buckminster Fuller

Celebrating the Poetry of John Updike

7:00 – 8:30 PM St. Johns Episcopal Church, Beverly Farms, MA

You can access the map of the Dead Poets 2012 Caravan Tour for your driving route.                                  


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