HOME Poetry Series: At Home in the Moving Body

7 Mercer Street, South Boston MA

Description

HOME consists of a featured reader and brief open mic every first Friday, followed by a writing workshop the following Saturday morning. This free series is curated by Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola and hosted by Anthony Febo. The poetry reading and open mic will be on June 4, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. The workshop will be on June 5, 2021 from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Learn more and register at boston.gov/poetry or roxburypoetryfestival.com. The theme for April is "At Home in the Moving Body", and the facilitator is Rajiv Mohabir. This workship will serve as teh end of the HOME Poetry Series, and the kickoff of the Roxbury Poetry Festival on June 5, 2021. The reading will be livestreamed via Haley House Bakery Cafe's Facebook page. Rajiv Mohabir is the author of The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press 2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize; Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention 2018) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books 2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize, Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (Kaya Press 2019) which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets. His memoir received the 2019 Reckless Books’ New Immigrant Writing Prize and is forthcoming 2021. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College, translations editor at Waxwing Journal and poetry editor of Asian American Literary Review.