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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.
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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 a conduit to bringing all types of poets together,” said artist and educator Tatiana Johnson-Boria, who was tapped by festival organizer and Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola to present a workshop.
The frailejon pictured above belongs to the plant genus espeletia a member of the sunflower family. Frailejones are unique to the high-altitude paramo ecosystems found scattered across the equatorial reaches of the Andean plateau. The frailejon is an iconic symbol of the Colombian highlands, of which a Bunker Hill student writes in her poem La Meseta. (Wilder Fleming/WBUR)
The past year has been rough for many people in many ways. A global pandemic; a national reckoning on police-perpetrated violence. Migrant crises the world over.
Amid all this, a nonprofit arts group in Boston called The Jar is providing a safe place for some students to heal using the power of poetry and empathetic connection with strangers.