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Charles Goodman, Westwood Youth Poet Laureate, Lynne Viti, Westwood Poet Laureate emerita, Elizabeth Lowney, Youth Poet Laureate emerita, Jean-Dany Joachim, host of City Nights. Photo credit: R. Lowney
9-06-2025 7:02pm
Westwood Youth Poets Elizabeth Lowney and Charles Goodman Dazzle at Cambridge's City Nights Poetry Series
Lynne Viti
Contributor
Last Friday, September 5, City Nights Poetry series, a weekly event at the Little Crepe Café welcomed Westwood youth poets Elizabeth Lowney and Charles Goodman as featured readers of their original poetry. An open mic followed, with poets and musicians from age six to seventy-plus reading poetry, storytelling and making music.
Lowney served as Youth Poet Laureate of Westwood from June 2024 through May 2025. Goodman is the current Youth Poet Laureate of Westwood, with a one-year term running through May 2026. Both poets are currently students at Westwood High School. Lowney's debut poetry chapbook, Erosion, is forthcoming in 2026 from Finishing Line Press.
City Nights Poetry is hosted by Haitian-American poet Jean-Dany Joachim, owner of the Little Crepe Café, and a former Populist Poet of Cambridge (2009-2011). Joachim is also the Poet in Residence at First Church in Cambridge, a playwright and fiction writer, and the author of three collections of poetry, Crossroads / Chimenkwaze (2013), Avec des Mots
(2014), and Quartier (2016).
The schedule for City Nights can be found at https://citynightreadings.com/events.
