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Poetry

ALONDRA BOBADILLA, FIRST YOUTH POET LAUREATE, AT INTERACTIVE PROGRAM

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted April 8, 2022 Filed Under: Poetry

Join her for a celebration of April, as National Poetry Month

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: culture, laurate, library, poetry, Youth

BOSTON NAMES NEW YOUTH POET LAUREATE

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted March 4, 2022 Filed Under: Poetry

Anjalequa Leynneyah Verona Birkett, from the John D. O’Bryant School of Math & Science, is Boston’s second

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Art, culture, laureate, poetry, Youth

40 ACRES & A SLAM: BLACK HISTORY MONTH EDITION

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 1, 2022 Filed Under: Poetry

"An evening of rhythm, rhymes, and reparations"

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Art, black history month, poetry, SLAM

PORSHA OLAYIWOLA PERFORMS “POETRY AS PROTEST”

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted November 7, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Poetry

The Poet Laureate read selected works.

Filed Under: A+E, Poetry Tagged With: afro-futurism, Poetry as Protest, Porsha Olayiwola, Royall House and Slave Quarters

COLLECTING PERSPECTIVE: THE GARDNER MUSEUM’S SALON LUMINARY PROGRAM

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted January 15, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, DigThis, Performing Arts, Poetry, Visual Arts

As the fourth cohort of Neighborhood Salon Luminaries settles in, and the previous three continue to inform, claims Vedro, “not only the community engagement programs, but now, more and more, other types of programming, and collaborations throughout the museum.”

Filed Under: A+E, DigThis, Performing Arts, Poetry, Visual Arts Tagged With: Nathalia Jmag, Nighborhood Salon Luminary project, Porsha Olayiwola, Rhea Vedro, Sabrina Dorsainvil, Stewart Gardner Museum, Urbana Project, Veronica Robles

10 OF OUR FAVORITE NONFICTION READS OF 2019

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 26, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books, Poetry

Here’s a rundown of some of our favorites from 2019, including several whose authors we were lucky enough to interview this year.

Filed Under: A+E, Books, Poetry Tagged With: 2019, books, Christina Thompson, Disgraceland, Elaine Welteroth, fentanyl, Hard Times, Ibram X. Kendi, Jake Brennan, Juliet, Luke O'Neil, Our Market Season, Porsha Olayiwola, Welcome to Hell World, Westhoff

LIFE OF THE PARTY

Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Posted September 30, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books, Poetry

Olivia Gatwood

 

Slam feminism with a true-crime twist in latest from poet Olivia Gatwood

 

Back in the fall of 2013, before Trump and #MeToo, I first encountered Olivia Gatwood’s poetry at a Lower East Side poetry slam, which she won. To someone with a newly minted degree in English from a small liberal arts school isolated from a flourishing ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Books, Poetry Tagged With: books, literature, Max Chapnick, Olivia Gatwood, poetry, review

SOUL OF THE CITY

Written by Posted June 21, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, MUSIC, Performing Arts, Poetry

BAMS Fest returns for a second year with new twists and attractions

Filed Under: A+E, MUSIC, Performing Arts, Poetry Tagged With: BAMS Fest, Beantown Jazz Festival, Berklee College Of Music, Catherine Morris, Cliff Notez, Dorchester, Eric Roberson, Franklin Park, Luke Bar$, MIT, Music, Red Shaydez, Roxbury

ALLSTON LIVING ROOM READ: WHERE QUEER STORIES AND MORE TAKE THE FLOOR

Written by C. SHARDAE JOBSON Posted April 26, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Poetry

“I think it is very powerful, but also complicated. Queerness is like this big abstract concept and how do you put a border around that? And more importantly, should you?”

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Poetry Tagged With: ALLR, Allston, Allston Living Room Read, books, Lattimer, LQBTQ, poetry, Romeo Oriogun

‘I DO POETRY ALL THE TIME’

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted April 11, 2019 Filed Under: Poetry

Photo credit: Carlie Febo (Shoot directed by Princess Moon).

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Boston, Heather Kapplow, Interview, poet laureate, poetry, Porsha Olayiwola

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