Martha Collins has published nine collections of poetry and is the founder of the Creative Writing Program at UMass Boston, and Crystal Williams has published four collections of poetry – the third collection, Troubled Tongues, was awarded the 2009 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.