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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1535407952465-NUC86MZQVWXC3AUKRC28/Porsha+2.jpg home http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/gallery daily 0.75 2018-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1535418848231-T9T5NL87YXKK9IAZT89N/Porsha+1.jpg Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1535418783605-82SB5XMG6F5ARUW4I35B/Porsha+1.jpg Workshops http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/poems daily 0.75 2022-04-27 http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/bio daily 0.75 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/9842cf0d-3b58-4565-a8f7-01a9821208f3/CarlieFebo-3450.jpg Bio Porsha Olayiwola is a native of Chicago who writes, lives and loves in Boston. Olayiwola is a writer, performer, educator and curator who uses afro-futurism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black, woman, and queer diasporas. She is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the founder of the Roxbury Poetry Festival. Olayiwola is Brown University's 2019 Heimark Artist -In -Residence as well as the 2021 Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a 2020 poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American poets. Olayiwola earned her MFA in poetry from Emerson College and is the author of i shimmer sometimes, too. Olayiwola is the current poet laureate for the city of Boston. Her work can be found in or forthcoming from with TriQuarterly Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Boston Globe, Essence Magazine, Redivider, The Academy of American Poets, Netflix, Wildness Press, The Museum of Fine Arts and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1475022210270-62NC9KJVY4TPY73VWLKY/woodchips.jpg Bio http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564677161820-UMGKP860PCEHL7NVRQB0/IMG_7562-2.jpg Contact Photo Credit: Carlie Febo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1475186558805-KNF2HDORVLD5LBAPQ7DR/IMG_0806+copy.JPG Contact http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/welcome daily 0.75 2018-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1493402875328-BNUBDW0YU8T7FLFUE8TV/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_674803_WEBSAFE.jpg Welcome http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/theatre-projects daily 0.75 2019-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564680279796-V634VWF19OPEQ34IU7P2/image0000001.gif Theatre Projects SPIRIT is an Afro-futurist and Afro- surrealist theater project from poet-playwrights Porsha Olayiwola and Marshall "Gripp" Gillson. Written in two acts, the production is a theatrical experiment that discusses race, forgiveness, and healing in both the future in the past. The show is set to debut in October 2019 in Boston, MA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564678833153-AMDJA170FAL37VBKWXE7/IMG_4173.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564678897476-CIBVFVE533UYAL3YQVWL/IMG_4316+%281%29.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679052108-9GHMYTHB2FIJWGQXI4DX/IMG_4136+%281%29.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679300253-LNFZ7T55H4ZZYD7YC6V2/IMG_4324.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679052878-ENCCA49M8763V2D4SP06/IMG_7369.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679053679-WXA4NNLCUVWQR7D5CXWL/IMG_7368.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679053940-EQ0AFSEKBVT27TPJTSA9/IMG_7367.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679055746-A08HFOY98XDAJNCAPSI6/IMG_7364.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679056021-ID07PDEDWQOZCA6UX274/IMG_7365.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679056537-NLJ9CRQ0M0EUWIPK05UN/IMG_7366.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679335682-WBFTLZCH0J5ROEDOIK0A/IMG_7370.jpg Theatre Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564679335698-6WGZ74KBW485PEHH2IAH/IMG_7371.jpg Theatre Projects http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/book-1 daily 0.75 2020-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e95100ff7c509e4d236bd7/1564690595202-M7OZ2SPXDQUJ28B1AICN/porsha_cover_final+%281%29.jpg BOOK "In Porsha Olayiwola’s capable hands, language becomes elastic, becomes kaleidoscopic. I Shimmer Sometimes Too is cinematic, is magic, and a graceful education in the possibilities of form. “ —Safia Elhillo, author of The January Children In language that is both pungent and poignant, Porsha Olayiwola plumbs a diaspora of resilience, rich in ringshouts and inner-city blues chanted to the sky. I Shimmer Sometimes Too is luminous indeed. —Jabari Asim, author of We Can’t Breathe "Porsha Olayiwola is unlike any other poet writing today. I Shimmer Sometimes Too further solidifies her remarkable dexterity as a writer, witness of the world, and observer of herself. Each poem is a lesson, a story, a mirror that Olayiwola holds up to ensure we pay attention to that which we may have overlooked. Put simply, I love this book. I love how it moves, how it sings, how it swings open the doors and invites all of us in." — Clint Smith, author of Counting Descent http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/read-me-encore daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/507c1fdb84ae362b5e7be351/1377710645188-W6F7VW5TN6XZ26N626WB/Darren+Bridgett+%2820130828%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/507c1fdb84ae362b5e7be351/1377710441515-L3YD83X83ELBMUJHKA5F/The+Collective+Quarterly+%2820130828%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/507c1fdb84ae362b5e7be351/1377787389525-6YIGWYZ7Y1R2VXYGXYWO/Olasky+%26+Sinsteden+%2820130829%29.jpg Read Me http://www.porshaolayiwola.com/store daily 0.75 2023-10-02