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Danielle Legros Georges is a Haitian-born American poet, essayist and academic. She is a professor of creative writing in the Lesley University MFA Program in Creative Writing.^[1] Her areas of focus include contemporary American poetry, African-American poetry, Caribbean literature and studies, literary translation, and the arts in education.^[2] She is the creative editor of sx salon, a digital forum for innovative critical and creative explorations of Caribbean literature.^[3]

Biography

Danielle Legros Georges was born in Gonaïves, Haiti.^[4] Her family lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo before settling in Boston, Massachusetts. She has lived and worked in Chicago and New York.

After graduating from Emerson College with a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies, she became part of the Dark Room Collective of Black writers, and went on to earn a master's of fine arts degree in English and creative writing from New York University.^[5]

She is a professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Division of Lesley University.^[6]

Her poetry has appeared in many literary journals – including Agni, The Boston Globe, Transition, World Literature Today, SpoKe, SX Salon, The Caribbean Writer, Callaloo, Salamander, Poiesis, Black Renaissance Noire, MaComère, and The American Poetry Review – and has been widely anthologised,^[1] including in New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019).^[7] Her debut book of poems, Maroon, was published in 2001 by Northwestern University Press.^[8] Her second collection, The Dear Remote Nearness of You (Barrow Street Press, 2016), won the New England Poetry Club's Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize.^[9]

In 2014 she was chosen as Boston's poet laureate,^[4] the second person to hold the position since the first appointee, Sam Cornish, in 2008.^[9]^[10] In this ceremonial role she was tasked with raising the status of poetry in the everyday consciousness of Bostonians, acting as an advocate for poetry, language and the arts, and creating a unique artistic legacy through public readings and civic events.^[1] As laureate, she established visiting hours for Bostonians interested in discussions of poetry in branches of the Boston Public Library; created a senior writing workshop for residents of the Mount Pleasant Home and elders of the area community;^[11] visited area schools; wrote occasional poems for civic events including the Mayor's State of the City addresses of 2015 and 2016, and the re-opening of the Boston Public Library's Central Branch; and collaborated with poets and poetry organizations in public art projects. As the city laureate, Legros Georges collaborated with Boston-area museums, libraries, artists and students; and represented Boston internationally at literary festivals. In a 2016 interview, she said: "I work on reflecting the vibrancy and life of the city of Boston, my commitment is to the community, and the city's diversity."^[12] Her term of office as laureate ran from 2015 to 2019.^[13]

Awards

Awards and accolades include:

2012: Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist in Poetry
2013: Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship/Andrew W. Mellon Grant
2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021: Pushcart Prize Nominations
2014: Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry
2015: Brother Thomas Artist Fellowship, The Boston Foundation
2016: Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Emerson College
2016: Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize for The Dear Remote Nearness of You, New England Poetry Club
2017: Champion of Artists Award, Massachusetts Artists Leaders Coalition
2017: The 1804 List of Haitian-American Changemakers in the United States, The Haitian Roundtable
2021: PEN/Heim Translation Grant
2022: MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) Fellowship
2022: Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry

Bibliography

Island Heart: The Poems of Ida Faubert (translations) (Subpress Books, 2021)
City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems (Boston Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, 2017)
Letters From Congo (a chapbook) (Central Square Press, 2017)
The Dear Remote Nearness of You (Barrow Street, 2016)
Maroon (Curbstone Press, 2001)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Danielle Georges" Archived January 19, 2018, at the Wayback Machine at Lesley University.
^ Ed Siegel, "Lesley Professor Danielle Legros Georges Is Boston's New Poet Laureate", The ARTery, December 15, 2014.
^ "SX Salon | Small Axe Project". smallaxe.net. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Danielle Legros Georges" Archived April 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The Haitian Roundtable.
^ Kathleen Burge, "Boston’s new poet laureate wants to make poetry comfortable for all", The Boston Globe, June 9, 2015.
^ Berman, Ben (Winter 2017). "Danielle Legros Georges Interview". Solstice. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
^ "Read 'A Stateless Poem' by Danielle Legros Georges, from the new anthology New Daughters of Africa", The Johannesburg Review of Books, August 5, 2019.
^ Maroon at Northwestern University Press.
^ ^a ^b "Danielle Legros Georges" at Academy of American Poets.
^ Shao, Yiqing (December 17, 2014). "Danielle Legros Georges Named Boston's New Poet Laureate". Boston Magazine. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
^ Sandra Storey, "Creative Spitits Soar in Poetry Workshop for Seniors", Mass Poetry, March 2017.
^ Scott, Phaedra (May 13, 2016). "Haiti To Boston: Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges On 'The Dear Remote Nearness Of You'". WBUR. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
^ Glatter, Hayley (June 27, 2018). "I Love My Job: Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges". Boston Magazine. Retrieved August 21, 2022.

[faculty-1] "Danielle Georges" Archived January 19, 2018, at the Wayback Machine at Lesley University.

[2] Ed Siegel, "Lesley Professor Danielle Legros Georges Is Boston's New Poet Laureate", The ARTery, December 15, 2014.

[3] "SX Salon | Small Axe Project". smallaxe.net. Retrieved April 15, 2022.

[HRT-4] "Danielle Legros Georges" Archived April 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The Haitian Roundtable.

[Globe-5] Kathleen Burge, "Boston’s new poet laureate wants to make poetry comfortable for all", The Boston Globe, June 9, 2015.

[6] Berman, Ben (Winter 2017). "Danielle Legros Georges Interview". Solstice. Retrieved August 21, 2022.

[7] "Read 'A Stateless Poem' by Danielle Legros Georges, from the new anthology New Daughters of Africa", The Johannesburg Review of Books, August 5, 2019.

[8] Maroon at Northwestern University Press.

[AAP-9] "Danielle Legros Georges" at Academy of American Poets.

[10] Shao, Yiqing (December 17, 2014). "Danielle Legros Georges Named Boston's New Poet Laureate". Boston Magazine. Retrieved August 21, 2022.

[11] Sandra Storey, "Creative Spitits Soar in Poetry Workshop for Seniors", Mass Poetry, March 2017.

[12] Scott, Phaedra (May 13, 2016). "Haiti To Boston: Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges On 'The Dear Remote Nearness Of You'". WBUR. Retrieved August 21, 2022.

[13] Glatter, Hayley (June 27, 2018). "I Love My Job: Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges". Boston Magazine. Retrieved August 21, 2022.

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-'''Danielle Legros Georges''' is a [[Haitian-American]] poet, essayist and academic. She is currently [[Poet Laureate]] of the [[city of Boston]], and is a professor at [[Lesley University]] in the Creative Arts in Learning Division.<ref name=faculty>[https://lesley.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/danielle-georges "Danielle Georges"] at Lesley University.</ref> Her areas of focus are on contemporary American poetry, African-American poetry, Caribbean literature and studies, literary translation, and the arts in education.<ref>Ed Siegel, [http://www.wbur.org/artery/2014/12/15/danielle-legros-georges "Lesley Professor Danielle Legros Georges Is Boston's New Poet Laureate"], ''The ARTery'', December 15, 2014.</ref>
+'''Danielle Legros Georges''' is a Haitian-born American poet, essayist and academic. She is a professor of creative writing in the [[Lesley University]] MFA Program in Creative Writing.<ref name=faculty>[https://lesley.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/danielle-georges "Danielle Georges"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119041526/http://www.lesley.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/danielle-georges |date=January 19, 2018 }} at Lesley University.</ref> Her areas of focus include contemporary American poetry, African-American poetry, Caribbean literature and studies, literary translation, and the arts in education.<ref>Ed Siegel, [http://www.wbur.org/artery/2014/12/15/danielle-legros-georges "Lesley Professor Danielle Legros Georges Is Boston's New Poet Laureate"], ''The ARTery'', December 15, 2014.</ref> She is the creative editor of ''[[SX Salon|sx salon]],'' a digital forum for innovative critical and creative explorations of Caribbean literature.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SX Salon {{!}} Small Axe Project |url=http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon |access-date=April 15, 2022 |website=smallaxe.net}}</ref>
 ==Biography==
-Danielle Legros Georges was born in [[Gonaïves]], Haiti,<ref name=HRT>[http://thehaitianroundtable.org/honorees/danielle-legros-georges/ "Danielle Legros Georges"], ''The Haitian Roundtable''.</ref> but her family left the island as political exiles and moved to [[Zaire]] in Central Africa, and then when Legros Georges was six years old to [[Boston, Massachusetts]], where she grew up among other Haitian migrants in the [[Mattapan]] district.<ref name=Globe>Kathleen Burge, [https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/06/08/from-haiti-boston-danielle-legros-georges-boston-new-poet-laureate-wants-make-poetry-comfortable-for-everyone/tSlbfvdUWVwQ0NDV8mQO7K/story.html "Boston’s new poet laureate wants to make poetry comfortable for all"], ''The Boston Globe'', June 9, 2015.</ref>
+Danielle Legros Georges was born in [[Gonaïves]], [[Haiti]].<ref name=HRT>[http://thehaitianroundtable.org/honorees/danielle-legros-georges/ "Danielle Legros Georges"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404172956/https://thehaitianroundtable.org/honorees/danielle-legros-georges/ |date=April 4, 2019 }}, ''The Haitian Roundtable''.</ref> Her family lived in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] before settling in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. She has lived and worked in Chicago and New York.
-After graduating from [[Emerson College]] with a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies, she became part of the [[Dark Room Collective]] of Black writers, and went on to earn a master's degree in English and creative writing from [[New York University]].<ref name=Globe />
+After graduating from [[Emerson College]] with a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies, she became part of the [[Dark Room Collective]] of Black writers, and went on to earn a master's of fine arts degree in English and creative writing from [[New York University]].<ref name=Globe>Kathleen Burge, [https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/06/08/from-haiti-boston-danielle-legros-georges-boston-new-poet-laureate-wants-make-poetry-comfortable-for-everyone/tSlbfvdUWVwQ0NDV8mQO7K/story.html "Boston’s new poet laureate wants to make poetry comfortable for all"], ''The Boston Globe'', June 9, 2015.</ref>
+She is a professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Division of Lesley University.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://solsticelitmag.org/content/danielle-legros-georges-interview/|title=Danielle Legros Georges Interview|website=Solstice|first=Ben|last=Berman|date=Winter 2017|access-date=August 21, 2022}}</ref>
-Her poetry has appeared in many literary journals – including ''[[Agni]]'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', ''[[Transition (magazine)|Transition]]'', ''[[World Literature Today]]'', ''SpoKe'', ''[[SX Salon]]'', ''The Caribbean Writer'', ''[[Callaloo (journal)|Callaloo]]'', ''Ibbetson Street'', ''Salamander'', ''Poiesis'', ''[[Black Renaissance Noire]]'', ''[[MaComère]]'', and ''[[The American Poetry Review]]'' – and she has been widely anthologised.<ref name=faculty /> Her debut book of poems, ''Maroon'', was published in 2001 by [[Northwestern University Press]].<ref>[http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/maroon ''Maroon''] at Northwestern University Press.</ref> Her second collection, ''The Dear Remote Nearness of You'' ([[Barrow Street Press]], 2016), won the New England Poetry Club's Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize.<ref>[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/danielle-legros-georges "Danielle Legros Georges"] at Academy of American Poets.</ref>
+Her poetry has appeared in many literary journals – including ''[[Agni]]'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', ''[[Transition (magazine)|Transition]]'', ''[[World Literature Today]]'', ''SpoKe'', ''[[SX Salon]]'', ''The Caribbean Writer'', ''[[Callaloo (journal)|Callaloo]]'', ''Salamander'', ''Poiesis'', ''[[Black Renaissance Noire]]'', ''[[MaComère]]'', and ''[[The American Poetry Review]]'' – and has been widely anthologised,<ref name=faculty /> including in ''[[Daughters of Africa#New Daughters of Africa|New Daughters of Africa]]'' (edited by [[Margaret Busby]], 2019).<ref>[https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2019/08/05/read-a-stateless-poem-by-danielle-legros-georges-from-the-new-anthology-new-daughters-of-africa/ "Read 'A Stateless Poem' by Danielle Legros Georges, from the new anthology New Daughters of Africa"], ''The Johannesburg Review of Books'', August 5, 2019.</ref> Her debut book of poems, ''Maroon'', was published in 2001 by [[Northwestern University Press]].<ref>[http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/maroon ''Maroon''] at Northwestern University Press.</ref> Her second collection, ''The Dear Remote Nearness of You'' ([[Barrow Street Press]], 2016), won the New England Poetry Club's Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize.<ref name=AAP>[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/danielle-legros-georges "Danielle Legros Georges"] at Academy of American Poets.</ref>
-Since 2001 Legros Georges has taught in [[Lesley University]]'s Creative Arts in Learning Division.<ref name=Mass />
+In 2014 she was chosen as Boston's [[poet laureate]],<ref name=HRT /> the second person to hold the position since the first appointee, [[Samuel James Cornish|Sam Cornish]], in 2008.<ref name=AAP /><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2014/12/17/danielle-legros-georges-boston-poet-laureate/|title=Danielle Legros Georges Named Boston's New Poet Laureate|magazine=[[Boston Magazine]]|first=Yiqing|last=Shao|date=December 17, 2014|access-date=August 21, 2022}}</ref> In this ceremonial role she was tasked with raising the status of poetry in the everyday consciousness of Bostonians, acting as an advocate for poetry, language and the arts, and creating a unique artistic legacy through public readings and civic events.<ref name=faculty /> As laureate, she established visiting hours for Bostonians interested in discussions of poetry in branches of the [[Boston Public Library]]; created a senior writing workshop for residents of the Mount Pleasant Home and elders of the area community;<ref>Sandra Storey, [http://www.masspoetry.org/storeyworkshopforseniors "Creative Spitits Soar in Poetry Workshop for Seniors"], ''Mass Poetry'', March 2017.</ref> visited area schools; wrote occasional poems for civic events including the Mayor's State of the City addresses of 2015 and 2016, and the re-opening of the Boston Public Library's Central Branch; and collaborated with poets and poetry organizations in public art projects. As the city laureate, Legros Georges collaborated with Boston-area museums, libraries, artists and students; and represented Boston internationally at literary festivals. In a 2016 interview, she said: "I work on reflecting the vibrancy and life of the city of Boston, my commitment is to the community, and the city's diversity."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/05/13/danielle-legros-georges-bpl|title=Haiti To Boston: Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges On 'The Dear Remote Nearness Of You'|publisher=WBUR|date=May 13, 2016|first=Phaedra|last=Scott|access-date=August 21, 2022}}</ref> Her term of office as laureate ran from 2015 to 2019.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=August 21, 2022|date=June 27, 2018|first=Hayley|last=Glatter|title=I Love My Job: Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges|url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2018/06/27/love-my-job-poet-laureate/|website=Boston Magazine}}</ref>
-In 2014 she was chosen as Boston's [[poet laureate]],<ref name=HRT /> the second person to hold the position since the first appointee, Sam Cornish, in 2008.<ref name=Globe /> In this ceremonial role she "is tasked with raising the status of poetry in the everyday consciousness of Bostonians, acting as an advocate for poetry, language and the arts, and creating a unique artistic legacy through public readings and civic events."<ref name=faculty />
-Believing in the importance of diversity, she quoted [[Langston Hughes]]' 1935 poem "[[Let America Be America Again]]" in an essay she wrote in 2013, saying: "America is best when it recognizes its inherent plurality. Americans are best when, embracing plurality, we move toward and seek to understand those around us. Americans are best when we are engaged and dialogic .... It allows us to see that, though different in many ways, [[Jean de Crèvecoeur|de Crèvecoeur]], [[Phillis Wheatley|Wheatley]], and [[Emma Lazarus|Lazarus]], were each immigrants or the daughter of immigrants. They were bicultural, and bilingual, if not speakers of several languages."<ref>[https://masspoetry.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/danielle-legros-georges-state-of-poetry/ "Danielle Legros Georges: State of Poetry | Let America be America Again"], ''Mass Poetry'', August 16, 2013.</ref>
 ==Awards==
+Awards and accolades include:
-Awards and accolades she has received include the 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry, the 2012 Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist in Poetry, Lesley University Faculty Development Grants, and a 2013 Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship/Andrew W. Mellon Grant.<ref name=Mass>Jacquelyn Malone, [http://www.masspoetry.org/bostonpoetlaureate/ "Danielle Legros Georges: Inspiring New Poet Laureate for Boston"], Mass Poetry, 2017.</ref>
+* 2012: Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist in Poetry
+* 2013: Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship/Andrew W. Mellon Grant
+* 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021: Pushcart Prize Nominations
+* 2014: Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry
+* 2015: Brother Thomas Artist Fellowship, The Boston Foundation
+* 2016: Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Emerson College
+* 2016: Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize for ''The Dear Remote Nearness of You'', New England Poetry Club
+* 2017: Champion of Artists Award, Massachusetts Artists Leaders Coalition
+* 2017: The 1804 List of Haitian-American Changemakers in the United States, The Haitian Roundtable
+* 2021: PEN/Heim Translation Grant
+* 2022: MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) Fellowship
+* 2022: Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry
 ==Bibliography==
+* ''Island Heart: The Poems of Ida Faubert'' (translations) (Subpress Books, 2021)
-* ''Maroon'' (Curbstone Press, 2001)
+* ''City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems'' (Boston Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, 2017)
+* ''Letters From Congo'' (a chapbook) (Central Square Press, 2017)
 * ''The Dear Remote Nearness of You'' (Barrow Street, 2016)
+* ''Maroon'' (Curbstone Press, 2001)
 ==References==
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