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Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah

Boston Poet Laureate

Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah is a Ghanaian American poet, editor, and educator living out the diaspora in Boston, Massachusetts. They are both Black & alive.

Born in 1993, Emmanuel is the school librarian at the Joseph Lee School in Dorchester, and Boston’s current poet laureate.

In the past, Emmanuel has served as a high school English teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and as a teaching artist at organizations such as the Massachusetts Literary Education and Performance Collective, the Cambridge Arts Council, Northeastern University, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.