Porsha Olayiwola

Jacob Ziskind Poet in Residence
Select Publications
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"i shimmer sometimes, too," Button Poetry, 2019.
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Serena included in anthology, BreakBeat Poets Volume 2: Black Girl Magic Anthology. Haymarket Books, 2018.
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Boston Ode included in anthology, DW Cities: Boston Anthology, 2019
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Poems in Vassar Review, Boston Globe Magazine, Wildness Press, The Academy of American Poets, Transition Magazine, Redivider Journal, Essences Magazine, Up The Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere.
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Videos & Cinematography, "Change Makers" Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2021, and “Black Beacon or History as a Crown of Sonnets” Boston NBC, 2020
Selected Awards
- Boston Poet Laureate, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, Jan 2019- Dec 2022
- Poetry Fellowship, Just Buffalo Literary Center, 2021
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Artist-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, May 2021 - June 2021
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Laureate Fellow, The Academy of American Poets, June 2020 - July 2021
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Heimark Artist-in-Residence, Brown University, January 2020- December 2020
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Brother Thomas Fellow, The Boston Foundation, 2019
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Live Arts Boston Grant, 2019
- The Boston Foundation,GK 100 Most Influential People of Color, 2018
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Contact Information
Office Location: Rabb 232
porshaolayiwola@brandeis.edu
781-736-2157