​Boston College graduate Lynne Viti, who is the poet laureate for Westwood, Massachusetts, was honored last month with the Westbeth Artists Housing’s 2023 Miriam Chaikin Writing Award in Poetry. She also was awarded Third Prize for her poem “Westwood Lodge, the Summer Hotel” in the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards presented by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. In addition, her fourth microchapbook with Origami Poems project, Waxing Gibbous Moon, was recently released. Viti is the author of the poetry collections The Walk to Cefalù and Dancing at Lake Montebello; the chapbooks Baltimore Girls and The Glamorganshire Bible; and the short fiction collection Going Too Fast.