Regie Gibson named Massachusetts’ first poet laureate at the 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. / Credit: Joshua Qualls from the Governor’s Office On May 30, 2025, Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll...
On May 3rd, 2024, Mass Poetry's Executive Director Daniel Johnson and SW@MP (Spoken Word at Mass Poetry) and Teen Council Member Maria Zaki appeared on WBUR to discuss Mass Poetry's inaugural Teen Spoken Word Festival, Maria's experiences as a member of Mass Poetry...
On May 3rd, 2024, Mass Poetry's Executive Director Daniel Johnson appeared on CBS News to promote our inaugural Teen Spoken Word Festival. Watch the complete interview here!
On January 27th, 2024, Parker-Vincent Alva was named Boston's next youth poet laureate. Parker-Vincent Alva is a SW@MP (Spoken Word at Mass Poetry) member and a 2023 GrubStreet Teen Fellow, as well as a student and writer from Boston, MA. He writes poetry and prose...