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Don't Forget to RSVP by This Thursday!


Just a reminder that if you have not already, please RSVP by THIS THURSDAY, July 23. We are working on a way to accomodate all "Yes" RSVPs into the schedule, so if you're interested, please let us know by this Thursday.

Thanks to everyone we've already heard from! We'll be following up with an initial tentative schedule and information on the logistics for the event within the week following the July 23 RSVP deadline.

We're looking forward to the 2020 Boston Poetry Marathon. Details below!

Can You Participate
in the Boston Poetry Marathon?


Dear Poet,

We’re pleased to announce that it’s Boston Poetry Marathon time again! We are hoping you can read your work as part of this year’s online Boston Poetry Marathon.

This year’s event will be held remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and out of respect for the health and happiness of our global family. This year we are also changing the time per reader to five minutes only.  

If you are interested in reading, please reply to this message and let us know: 
  • The top three hours that would work best for you, in order of preference (see your initial invitation for specifics on the date and times that may be available for you)
  • How to pronounce your name so the MC for the hour can be sure to introduce you correctly
  • Your pronoun preferences
We are still working on the technical logistics for this year's online event, but we will ask that our readers have a Zoom account to participate. If you have questions or are unsure, let us know so we can try to accommodate you as best as possible. 

We hope you will be able to come and read some poems. As usual: we are an all-volunteer event, so we don’t pay. We don’t go over 5 minutes. We listen to a bunch of poems. We hang out (virtually). We have fun (always).

While we usually fundraise to pay for the current year’s event and start to cover costs for the following year, this year we will be fundraising for organizations that fight against racial injustice, in support of Black Lives Matter. We will have details about our fundraising efforts sent THIS WEEK!

This isn’t the event we had in mind when we began planning last year, but we hope that this online event will bring us together in some meaningful way, even though we are not in-person. We hope to come back next year with an event where we can see all of your faces in-person!  

Please remember that we are all volunteers, we are humans, and we are all in this together. We hope you will consider joining us in August.

Poetically Yours,
Your BPM 2020 organizers: Christina, Xtina, Suzanne, and Bridget

Christina Liu (she/her/hers)
Xtina Strong
Suzanne Mercury (she/her/hers)
Bridget Eileen (she/her/hers)



 
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