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Inaugural Roxbury Poetry Festival Takes Flight Saturday A live musical event curated by DJ WHYSHAM, a self-described purveyor of “social justice trap music,” will cap off the first Roxbury Poetry Festival, Saturday June 5. Photo courtesy of DJ WHYSHAM Launching a new, all-day festival after almost a year inside might feel like an over-acceleration, like zero to 150. But on Saturday the Roxbury Poetry Festival presents its inaugural edition of what organizers hope will be a biennial literary event that celebrates the creative musings from Boston artists. “I think Poetry Festivals are ...

Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola is the "dreamer" of the first-ever Roxbury Poetry Festival. (Courtesy Button Poetry) The first-ever Roxbury Poetry Festival will take place Saturday, June 5. The hybrid event will feature workshops, readings, an in-person outdoor poetry slam and a femme rap concert. Boston’s Poet Laureate, Porsha Olayiwola calls herself the “dreamer of the festival,” rather than its director. "I've been dreaming this up with a lot of people and working with folks to take the dream and make it into something that's real and tangible and feels good," she says.  Her ...

Poet Carl Phillips wins $75,000 Jackson Prize FILE - Poet Carl Phillips appears at the 26th Annual Literary Awards Festival in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sept. 28, 2016. On Monday, Poets & Writers announced that the 61-year-old Phillips has won the Jackson Prize, a $75,000 honor for a body of work which displays “exceptional talent. Phillips’ 15 books of poetry include “Wild Is the Wind,” “Pale Colors In a Tall Field” and “In the Blood.” (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP, File) May 17, 2021 - 5:54 AM NEW YORK (AP) — P...

Poet Carl Phillips wins $75,000 Jackson Prize Associated Press Tags:  FILE - Poet Carl Phillips appears at the 26th Annual Literary Awards Festival in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sept. 28, 2016. On Monday, Poets & Writers announced that the 61-year-old Phillips has won the Jackson Prize, a $75,000 honor for a body of work which displays exceptional talent. Phillips 15 books of poetry include Wild Is the Wind, Pale Colors In a Tall Field and In the Blood. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK – Poet Carl Phillips has received a $75,000 honor for a body of work which displays “ex...

Heart to Heart With Jericho Brown About Poetry, Race and HIV Advertisement Heart to Heart With Jericho Brown About Poetry, Race and HIV In his Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry, Jericho Brown reveals how HIV, race and rape can coexist with joy, lust and love. Plus: Brown walks us through some of his poems. Jericho Brown’s third collection of poems, The Tradition, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The Pulitzer website described his work as “a collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and...