Danielle Legros Georges is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. She is also the former Poet Laureate of the City of Boston, where 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.
Books
Island Heart: The Poems of Ida Faubert, a book of English translations from the French (Subpress Collective, 2021)
City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems, editor (Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, City of Boston, 2017)
Letters from Congo, a chapbook of poems (Central Square Press, 2017)
The Dear Remote Nearness of You, a book of poems (Barrow Street Press, 2016)
Maroon, a book of poems (Curbstone Press, an imprint of Northwestern University Press, 2001)
