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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

EXPERIENCE “THRESH & HOLD” AT BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted March 9, 2022 Filed Under: Performing Arts

A multimedia experience centered around a new book of poetry

Filed Under: Performing Arts Tagged With: Art, culture, performance, poetry

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

ZEITGEIST PRESS RELEASING WORK BY LATE BOSTON POET MELINDA KWESKIN

Written by DIG STAFF Posted March 3, 2021 Filed Under: A+E, Books

Virtual event this weekend.

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Book, event, poetry

OPINION: GORMAN’S INAUGURATION POEM STILL HAS BLACK WOMEN TALKING

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted February 4, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Still, it’s hard for many to believe that America can change.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Art, Inauguration, poetry

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

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

AN EXCERPT FROM WRITERS RESIST 2018

Written by DIG STAFF Posted June 19, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Books

“Their writing enriches our communities, and their voices represent the breadth of our city. Above all, their work sharpens our resolve to protect our right to an inclusive and free press.”

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Aforementioned Productions, arts, Carissa Halston, It Can't Happen Here, poetry, writers, writing

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