PEM Reads: Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices
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Sunday, September 20, 2026 from 2–3 pm
This event is co-sponsored by Salem State University.
Location: Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts (356 Lafayette Street, Salem).
Street parking is available on Lafayette Street and Loring Avenue. If no street parking is available, you are welcome to park in the North Campus Parking Garage (43 Meier Drive), accessible from Loring Avenue.
Preregistration encouraged; registration link coming soon.
Copies of Pieces of Salem will be available for purchase at the event.
Join Salem’s Poet Laureate J.D. Scrimgeour and PEM’s Director of Learning and Community Engagement David Snider for the official book launch of Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices.
Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices is like a stroll along a beach, each step bringing a new, fascinating discovery — a rock shaped like an ear, a smoothed bit of sea glass, the intricate patterns on a glossy shell. Edited by J.D. Scrimgeour, the collection contains prose and poems from more than 130 citizens who live or work in Salem. Each contribution keeps to a 400-word limit, a number chosen to commemorate the city’s quadricentennial. Taken together, the pieces celebrate a famed city marked by ancient tragedy, but brimming with vitality.
A book signing will follow the program.
This book was commissioned and compiled as a part of Salem’s 400th anniversary. This PEM Reads event is a part of citywide celebrations for Salem 400+.
This event is co-sponsored by Salem State University.
Location: Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts (356 Lafayette Street, Salem).
Street parking is available on Lafayette Street and Loring Avenue. If no street parking is available, you are welcome to park in the North Campus Parking Garage (43 Meier Drive), accessible from Loring Avenue.
Preregistration encouraged; registration link coming soon.
Copies of Pieces of Salem will be available for purchase at the event.
Join Salem’s Poet Laureate J.D. Scrimgeour and PEM’s Director of Learning and Community Engagement David Snider for the official book launch of Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices.
Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices is like a stroll along a beach, each step bringing a new, fascinating discovery — a rock shaped like an ear, a smoothed bit of sea glass, the intricate patterns on a glossy shell. Edited by J.D. Scrimgeour, the collection contains prose and poems from more than 130 citizens who live or work in Salem. Each contribution keeps to a 400-word limit, a number chosen to commemorate the city’s quadricentennial. Taken together, the pieces celebrate a famed city marked by ancient tragedy, but brimming with vitality.
A book signing will follow the program.
This book was commissioned and compiled as a part of Salem’s 400th anniversary. This PEM Reads event is a part of citywide celebrations for Salem 400+.
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Where is it happening?
Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, 2 Meier Dr, Salem, MA 01970, United States
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