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"Black, poet, queer-dyke, hip-hop feminist, goddess, womanist, futurist..." are among the words she has used to describe herself. Olayiwola is also known as a mentor within her community, a trailblazer and an inspiration to fellow poets and audiences alike.

"Hopefully, by me seeing me, other people see themselves," said Olayiwola, whose poems often explore her own personal and cultural identity in intimate detail.

Although she originally hails from Chicago, she currently lives in Dorchester. Upon her arrival to Boston in 2010, she was drawn into the rich political and cultural history that lives here. As Olayiwola's body of work has grown, she has imprinted herself on the landscape of the city she now calls home.

Her first book , "i shimmer sometimes, too," delighted both critics and fans following its release in 2019. Her writing has been published widely by TriQuarterly Magazine , The Boston Globe , wildness , and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston .

Olayiwola is the 2014 Individual World and 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion, Brown University's 2019 Heimark Artist-in-Residence , and a 2020 Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets .

Olayiwola was the founder and lead organizer of the debut Roxbury Poetry Festival, which took place at the Blair Lot in Nubian Square on June 5, 2021. The event combined virtual workshops with a live poetry slam and concluded with a rap concert featuring femme artists from the area.

The slam winners, local poets Miya Coleman and Usman Hameedi, received a book deal from Button Poetry , who helped sponsor the event. Olayiwola hopes to keep up the festival to give more opportunities to rising poets and show love to the neighborhood where she spent years living and working.

The Scope spoke with Olayiwola to discuss how she brings herself to her poetry and other work. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

What was it about Boston that made you decide to stay, and what do you love about the city?

I think overall, the landscape. I mean the infrastructure, the parks and the ocean, and the people in the way in which the neighborhoods are separated - something about these things feels very cozy. And it feels manageable and livable, walkable, even. It's just a city where people get to know each other. And if they don't, then they already secretly know each other.

How do you hope to impact Boston in your role as Poet Laureate?

There's obviously the definition of the role, which is civic engagement and incorporating poetry into the everyday life of citizens. But I think for me, what I'm always trying to do is provide resources for writers and poets, whether that is mentorship or workshop or spaces or readings or access to certain writers or thinkers ... figuring out ways to give the people what I want ... thinking about the things that I needed or wanted as I was becoming my own writer and figuring out ways to do it for free, hopefully.

[I want to] blur the line, or delete the line, between performance poetry and page poetry. As a person with lineage and foundational roots in performance poetry, it always feels like there's such a huge gap between page poetry, published poetry and performance poetry. And the reality is, [there's] not. I've been trying to do some work or thinking about how to close that gap.

How do you explore your identity and self in your writing?

Often the question I'm asking myself is: why? Like, why are you writing this?

So I think for me, the part of the poem is figuring out the reason. And I think that, for me, is the life or the jolt of something beyond the poem.

I think that part lies in discovery. I have an idea for a poem. And my process consists of thinking about the idea for a very long time, and maybe thinking looks like researching things or watching a documentary, etc. And then I write the poem. But by the end of the poem, I'm learning something new or different about myself or something different than what I thought the poem would be. And I think maybe that the avenue of inserting myself is when I reach that discovery.

What are you currently writing, and what are you drawing from for inspiration?

I'm totally working on a book of poems. I spent time this morning attempting to edit an abecedarian about being glorious and queer and all of those things.

A lot of the poems either stem from history and a collective identity or history of a personal identity. I love history. I've always loved history. So a lot of the poems that I've been writing intersect there. Right now, I'm kind of obsessively writing about water and the black diaspora, which is in part my own identity, obviously, and just inquiry into history and inquiry into water, which is a universal lifeline.

The rest of the poems I've been writing have been about queer intimacy ... When I think about intimacy, I think about the body, but I'm thinking about my body as dark and large and fat, and all of those things, in addition to being queer, are happening in that moment.

How can fatphobia and colorism, topics you address in your work, manifest white supremacy culture?

I think [these ideas have] roots in white supremacy and capitalism, and internalized racism is also in response to that. It's just like a tool of [white supremacy and capitalism]. The idea of beauty, I think, the standards of beauty ... it's this thing that we're supposed to achieve and we're supposed to strive to.

For me, the apprehension associated with colorism, fatphobia, all of those things, happens more in life as I move through the world than actually in poems. Those things exist in the poems, but they exist without a limitation, or I get to decide what they look like in the poem. There's more of a freedom there than what happens when I walk outside my door and feel it on me. And then, when I'm sitting with me and the page, I don't feel any of those things. I feel more pensive, more reflective, more control.

What do you want to teach others?

Some of the stipulations associated with poetry and what it means to be traditional and of the canon follow these very specific rules. I think life is about breaking all of those standards or rules. The biggest thing I want students to think about is how do they break all of these things? What does my voice look like in these rules, and how many rules can you break in any given moment? I'm hoping folks feel inspired and feel conviction that they can do whatever they want.

How do you curate spaces for poetry and self-expression?

I'm actually totally revamping all of my workshops. Maybe the framework that I'm going to be moving with as I shape some of these new workshops that I'm curating is really: how do I utilize just talking about the self more, maybe as an extended metaphor, right? We can look at the poem and talk about what the writer thinks, which is awesome and cool and meaningful. And also, there is something about studying the self that pushes people differently. And I want always to bring that element. Then automatically, the poem almost writes itself. Understanding that we are our first teachers; it's going to be monumental for me.

Now I'm really interested in poetry for entertainment. I've always done poetry for poets and poetry spaces for writers. I've been thinking about curating a four-part series ... it's a show, not necessarily meant for the writers and poets, but for the people in attendance.

What types of conversations do you hope your poetry ignites?

I've always thought that I want people to see themselves. I want to see myself. And then hopefully, by me seeing me, other people see themselves.

I want conversations that surprise me. I want completely unexpected conversations. I love learning new things and thinking about the world in different ways, so when conversations just completely catch me off guard, I think it's amazing.

For example, a [OBGYN] messaged me, and she said, "I watched your poem ' Tangled aka Rapunzel aka Long-Hair-Don't-Care-and-What,'" which is about somebody's hair being touched without permission. [The doctor said], "I work with a lot of Black women and listening to that poem was the first time I realized that I have no idea what my patients feel, especially Black women as they are giving birth... how the woman felt when her hair was being touched is maybe a glimpse of how uncomfortable patients might be."

This is beyond my dreams, that [my poem] would be in this conversation ... that hair and feeling could relate to this thing that feels massive.

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After "The Entombment" by Raphael

The night my father died, I sat on a stool
at the Buckhorn, gazing
out the window's cool counter seat.
Like a funhouse mirror, you appeared.
I have a familiar-looking face; my father used to say-
his wish for me to blend in.
Late after an argument, I fled
and was found bound to a prairie fence
after eighteen hours.
My body is like a sock in the wind
in a field just a mile from here.
My face blooms, velvety
and light like a lamb's ear,

frozen with blood; down
my neck, it goes. A medley of ants shuffles
away. My body is rich with the sour smell
of urine on my head like a crown of daffodils. stachys byzantina; my ears

Copyright © 2023 by Ruben Quesada. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 27, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.

One does such work as one will not,
And well each knows the right;
Though the white storm howls, or the sun is hot,
The black must serve the white.
And it's, oh, for the white man's softening flesh,
While the black man's muscles grow!
Well I know which grows the mightier,

O, rich young lord, thou ridest by
With looks of high disdain;
It chafes me not thy title high,
Thy blood of oldest strain.
The lady riding at thy side
Is but in name thy promised bride.
Ride on, young lord, ride on!

I'm in my room writing
speaking in myself
& I hear you
move down the hallway
to water your plants

I write truth on the page
I strike the word over & over
yet I worry you'll pour too much water on the plants
& the water will overflow onto the books
ruining them

If I can't speak out of myself
how can I tell you I don't care about the plants?
how can I tell you I don't care if the books get wet?

I have folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer night,
Assigning each brief storm its allotted space in time,
Quietly pursuing catastrophic histories buried in my eyes.
And yes, the world is not some unplayed Cosmic Game,
And the sun is still ninety-three million miles from me,
And in the imaginary forest, the shingled hippo becomes the gray unicorn.
No, my traffic is not with addled keepers of yesterday's disasters,
Seekers of manifest disembowelment on shafts of yesterday's pains.

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In one of the inauguration's most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world "even as we grieved, we grew."

The 22-year-old Gorman referenced everything from Biblical scripture and "Hamilton," and at times echoed the oratory of John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. With urgency and assertion she began by asking "Where can we find light/In this never-ending shade?" and used her own poetry and life story as an answer.

The poem's very title, "The Hill We Climb," suggested both labor and transcendence. Here is the full text of the poem:
"When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade We've braved the belly of the beast We've learned that quiet isn't always peace And the norms and notions of what just is Isn't always just-ice And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it Somehow we do it Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished We the successors of a country and a time Where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one And yes we are far from polished far from pristine but that doesn't mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect We are striving to forge a union with purpose To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us but what stands before us We close the divide because we know, to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another We seek harm to none and harmony for all Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried That we'll forever be tied together, victorious Not because we will never again know defeat but because we will never again sow division Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree And no one shall make them afraid If we're to live up to our own time Then victory won't lie in the blade But in all the bridges we've made That is the promise to glade The hill we climb If only we dare It's because being American is more than a pride we inherit, it's the past we step into and how we repair it We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy And this effort very nearly succeeded But while democracy can be periodically delayed it can never be permanently defeated In this truth in this faith we trust For while we have our eyes on the future history has its eyes on us This is the era of just redemption We feared at its inception We did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour but within it we found the power to author a new chapter To offer hope and laughter to ourselves So while once we asked, how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us? We will not march back to what was but move to what shall be A country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation Our blunders become their burdens But one thing is certain: If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children's birthright So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left with Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west, we will rise from the windswept northeast where our forefathers first realized revolution We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states, we will rise from the sunbaked south We will rebuild, reconcile and recover and every known nook of our nation and every corner called our country, our people diverse and beautiful will emerge, battered and beautiful When day comes we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid The new dawn blooms as we free it For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it If only we're brave enough to be it."
Gorman, a native and resident of Los Angeles and the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate, Gorman said last week that she planned to combine a message of hope for President Biden's inaugural without ignoring "the evidence of discord and division." She had completed a little more than half of "The Hill We Climb" before Jan. 6 and the siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

"That day gave me a second wave of energy to finish the poem," Gorman told the AP.

Gorman's career is just beginning. Her first two books come out in September - the picture story "Change Things" and a bound edition of her inaugural poem, along with other works.
The Hill and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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CommonLit is a comprehensive literacy program with thousands of reading lessons, full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and standards-based data for teachers.

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two free audiobooks every week for ten weeks! Always free. April-August

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SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+. AudiobookSYNC gives participants two thematically paired audiobooks each week.

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Bring the library to you! Free digital books, magazines and more! Available for iOS and Android devices.

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Now students can follow the latest news. All tailored to their reading level. To explore the kids' website, select a grade and discover new stories each week.

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Now students can follow the latest news. All tailored to their reading level. To explore the kids' website, select a grade and discover new stories each week. View articles by grade level

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Spanish Stories

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Chicken Little

A modern adaptation of the classic tale: What happens when a completely normal chicken believes everything he reads on the internet? This story is written in the present tense, because it's a good thing to learn.

The Bird and the Whale

Our first ever original story, about a bird and a whale and their shared love of little fish. Inspired by a song by Tom Waits, and an episode of Adventure Time.

The Three Little Pigs

The classic tale of shoddy building materials, DIY folly, and the perils of emparedados de tocino (a.k.a bacon sandwiches). No pigs or wolves were harmed in the making of this story.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Why you should probably lock your door when you go out for a walk, even if you live en medio de un gran bosque. Why are the three bowls of sopa different temperatures when they were poured at the same time? Science, is why.

Little Red Riding Hood

A deeply troubling investigation into what happens when you let your children walk somewhere alone: Caperucita Roja eats fresas, picks margaritas and talks to el Gran Lobo Feroz on the way to Grandma's house. (Warning: Contains highly improbable medical scenes.)

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Spanish Children's Stories - The Spanish Experiment

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A modern adaptation of the classic tale: What happens when a completely normal chicken believes everything he reads on the internet? This story is written in the present tense, because it's a good thing to learn. Our first ever original story, about a bird and a whale and their shared love of little fish.

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Poetry in America gathers distinguished interpreters from all walks of life to explore and debate 12 unforgettable American poems. Athletes, poets, politicians, musicians, architects, scientists, actors, entrepreneurs, and citizens of all ages join together with host and Harvard professor Elisa New to experience and share the power of poetry.

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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Writing in U.S. History | PBS LearningMedia

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The Calderwood Writing Course: U.S History includes six interactive, self-paced lessons for high school students. Each lesson provides an immersive look at a key topic in U.S. history integrated with tools to develop writing skills. Lively illustrated lectures by historian Ben Weber are supplemented by a range of primary source materials, including historical documents, photographs, cartoons, and artifacts.

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Practice making smart choices online and in life with these free games and activities.

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Dream up and then do offline versions of your favorite online activities (Instagram = old-school letter, Call of Duty = strategy board game, etc.).

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Dream up and then do offline versions of your favorite online activities (Instagram = old-school letter, Call of Duty = strategy board game, etc.).

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Digital Citizenship activities for Grades 9-12

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Practice making smart choices online and in life with these free games and activities. Screen-Free Substitutes Dream up and then do offline versions of your favorite online activities (Instagram = old-school letter, Call of Duty = strategy board game, etc.).