CCE Co-sponsors Inaugural Roxbury Poetry Festival

June 2021

In June, CCE was proud to sponsor the very first Roxbury Poetry Festival. Led by the City of Boston's Poet Laureate, Porsha Olayiwola, a team of writers organized the inaugural festival which was held virtually with the exception of two evening events and featured several award-winning writers, panelists, and curators, with a keynote address from 2020 Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Jericho Brown. To celebrate the festival's first year, CCE also partnered with the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture and the Academy of American Poets to facilitate the Poem for Roxbury Contest. Two winners were selected, Rashawnda Williams and Durane West, who recited their poems at Northeastern's Writers' Week Spring 2021. Learn more about the Roxbury Poetry Festival here!