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Recorded on August 4, 2020 via Zoom. This event features Summer Program Faculty, Porsha Olayiwola and the debut Youth Poet Laureate Alondra Bobadilla and Youth PL finalists/ ambassadors, Tariq Charles and Norah Brady. This partnership with the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and MassLEAP presents readings by and conversation with Summer Program Faculty … Read more
Alondra Bobadilla, Boston’s first Youth Poet Laureate and a senior at Fenway High School, prepared this presentation for the Boston Public Schools August Leadership Institute.
Straw Dog Writers Guild’s Emerging Writers Fellowship is intended to support women and gender nonbinary writers of color based in Western Massachusetts at the early stages of their career. Hosted biennially, this program was created to help emerging writers negotiate barriers that often prevent them from pursuing publication and public access to their work. The … Read more
Join Professor Judith Frank, in conversation with National Book Award recipient Susan Choi and finalist Laila Lalami. This event free and open to the public, to be followed by audience Q&A and book signing. Hosted in partnership with the National Book Foundation. Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian American Literary Award … Read more
Join Obama aide Ben Rhodes, author of the best-selling book The World As It Is, and his Random House editor, Andy Ward ’94, in discussion with host Cullen Murphy ’74. Ben Rhodes is author of the New York Times best-seller The World As It Is; a contributor for NBC News, MSNBC and Crooked Media; and … Read more
Alondra Bobadilla, 17, of Fenway High School was named Boston’s first Youth Poet Laureate. She received the prestigious poetry award on Jan. 11, 2020. Mayor Marty Walsh said, “Empowering Boston’s youth and encouraging them to share their creativity and talent is so important for the future of our city, and I’m confident that she will … Read more
In May 2019, GrubStreet signed a lease with the Fallon Company to move into new office space at 50 Liberty Dr, Seaport. The kick-off event marked the momentous beginning of this project. GrubStreet plans to build a narrative arts center featuring a bookstore, cafe and community space for writer, a podcast studio, as well as … Read more
Boston’s Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola stops by GBH to discuss her career, and upcoming projects with Jared Bowen.
Judith Frank, the Eliza J. Clark Folger Professor of English, talks about what it takes to succeed as a writer and touches on what students can expect from the creative writing program at Amherst College. Among the things she mentions is their Writer-In-Residence and visiting writer programs. The Writer-In-Residence post, currently held by Shalya I. … Read more
Running a successful non-profit writing workshop has taught Eve Bridburg an unexpected lesson: that perfect strangers can make deep connections, but only if they care about the words they use. Meanwhile, we send off tweets and texts carelessly, expressing our anger without always acknowledging the impact our words have–even online. Taking a moment to consider … Read more
GrubStreet, the Boston Literary District, and Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Equity joined forces to host “Who Are We When We’re At Home: the Black Experience in Boston” during the Muse and the Marketplace 2017 conference (https://grubstreet.org/muse/) at the Park Plaza Hotel. Boston Globe Associate Editor and Op-ed columnist Renee Graham moderates a conversation about … Read more
Poet Karen Skolfield reads some of her poetry and talks about her writing process. Her book Frost in the Low Areas (2013) won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry and the First Book Award from Zone 3 Press. She is a 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow and winner of the 2014 Split This … Read more