City of Boston Poetry Gathering with Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola

Join the City of Boston and Emerson College on March 12, 2019, for a celebratory gathering in honor of the City's new Poet Laureate, Porsha Olayiwola. There will be a public reading featuring Porsha Olayiwola, former Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges, and other local artists in the Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theater at 7 p.m. 

A Jamaica Plain resident, Porsha Olayiwola is the Artistic Director at MassLEAP, a literary nonprofit organization in Massachusetts serving youth artists. She also co-founded The House Slam, a poetry slam venue at the Haley House Bakery Café in Roxbury that offers a free poetry slam and open mic events twice a month. Porsha is the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion. In 2018, she was named by GK100 as one of Boston’s Most Influential People of Color. She is also an MFA Candidate at Emerson College and has a full-length collection of poetry forthcoming in 2019 with Button Poetry.