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 aim for the festival is to debunk the notion that poetry is an elitist art form that belongs within the confines of academia.