Presented by City of Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola and running from November 6, 2020 - July 18, 2021, HOME consists of a featured reader and brief open mic every first Friday followed by a writing workshop the following Saturday morning.

The theme, HOME, is born out of our current space, time, crisis, and future-shaping. What does home mean? What isn’t home? Who is lacking home? Now that we are all home so much, how do we like our homes? Ourselves? Our families? What is home, in the literal and figurative sense? Is the body a type of home? How so? Is a poem a type of home? How do we integrate this into content and craft?

This series was supported by a grant through the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and will culminate in a Roxbury poetry festival in the summer of 2021. Registration is required to participate in the workshops, and the maximum capacity for each event is 25.