Photo courtesy of R. Lowney
Charles Goodman, Westwood Inaugural Poet Laureate Lynne Viti 2023-2025), and City Nights host poet Jean-Dany Joachim
On Friday, September 5, City Night, 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 performing poetry, storytelling and making music.
Lowney served as Youth Poet Laureate of Westwood from June 2024 through May 2025. Her debut poetry chapbook, Erosion, is forthcoming in 2026 from Finishing Line Press. 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.
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 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.
