# Event Details

- **Event Name**: PEM Reads: Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 20 Sep, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sun, 20 Sep, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: 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 street parking is full, you are welcome to park in the North Campus Parking Garage, 43 College Drive, accessible via 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+.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/salem/pem-reads-pieces-of-salem-an-anthology-of-salem-voices/200030547624949
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 60

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Salem
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts
- **lat**: 42.503646260003
- **long**: -70.890042745017
- **full address**: Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, 2 Meier Dr, Salem, MA 01970, United States

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is PEM Reads: Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices being held?
  - **A:** PEM Reads: Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices takes place on Sun, 20 Sep, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sun, 20 Sep, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, 2 Meier Dr, Salem, MA 01970, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing PEM Reads: Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices?
  - **A:** PEM Reads: Pieces of Salem: An Anthology of Salem Voices is organized by Peabody Essex Museum.

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