Announcing
The
Great Boston Poetry Marathon.
Twenty-Four
Historic Hours
Provincetown,
MA
5:12 AM Sunrise. Monday, May 24th
1. – 2. Start at the graves of Stanley Kunitz & Elise
Asher
Chinatown
8:00-8:45 AM
3. Breakfast near the plaque for Phyllis Wheatley.
Central Burial
Ground
9:00 AM
4. Meet at the grave of Charles Sprague, the Banker Poet of
Boston.
Forrest
Hills Cemetery
10 AM (5,,6,7,8)
Anne Sexton
E. E. Cummings
James Freeman Clarke
Eugene O'Neill
Hollyhood
Cemetery, Brookline. 584 Heath Street, Chesnut Hill
11 AM
9. John O'Reily
Harvard
Square.
12 Noon
10. Washington Allston
11. Richard Henry Dan
Cambridge
Cemetery
12:45
12. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
13. William Dean Howells
14. Henry James
Mt. Auburn
Cemetery (20 Poets!)
2:00 to
4:30 (#’s 15-35)
Henry Longfellow
Buckminster Fuller
Margaret Fuller
Robert Creeley
Frances Sargent Osgood
Thomas Gold Appleton
John Pierpont Sr.
Charles Eliot Norton
Fanny Parnell
Christopher Pease Cranch
John Ciardi
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Maria White Lowell
Louise Chandler Moulton
Amy Lowell
Gamaliel Bradford
Julia Ward Howe
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
David McCord
Malden.
(After Mt. Auburn) Late Afternoon
36. Michael Wigglesworth
8:10
Sunset in Eastern MA
11PM to
Midnight
Author's Ridge. Midnight Literary Assault on Author's Ridge.
Listen to the town bells ring in midnight gathered around Nathaniel Hawthorne.
37. Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. Louisa May Alcott
39. Nathaniel Hawthorne
40. William Channing
41. Henry Thoreau
Lowell, MA. Outside
the fence unless we can get permission to enter gates.
42. Jack Kerouac
43. Harriet Beecher Stowe
44. Anne Bradstreet (Marker; not grave)
45. John Whittier (Amesbury)
46. Jones Very (Salem)
47. Charles Olson
5:12 AM,
Tuesday the 25th. New Gloucester Beach.
48. Vincent Ferrini
