About me
Danielle Legros Georges is a poet, translator, and editor whose work has been supported by fellowships and grants from organizations including the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Boston Foundation, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. In 2014, she was appointed Boston’s second Poet Laureate. Her books of poetry include The Dear Remote Nearness of You (Barrow Street, 2016); Island Heart, translations of the poems of 20th-century Haitian-French poet Ida Faubert (Subpress, 2021); Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (Pangyrus, 2023); Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets: Évelyne Trouillot, Marie-Célie Agnant, Maggy de Coster (Zephyr Press, 2024); and the forthcoming Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story (Beacon Press, 2025).