Danielle Remembered

 

Read Dorian Kotsiopoulos' touching tribute to the late Danielle Legros Georges in this week's edition of The Arts Fuse. 

RIP

 

The late poet Danielle Legros Georges is featured in this week's edition of The Arts Fuse.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

 

 

Today we honor the recently passed Danielle Legros Georges by highlighting a poem of hers that gives a nod to another passed artist. Read "Meatloaf," published in the local publication The Arts Fuse.

RIP Danielle Legros Georges

Danielle Legros Georges was a force in the Boston poetry scene. I feel blessed that I was able to have her feature at Stone Soup Poetry in 2015 (likely due to people being braver than me and asking) while she was serving as the second Poet Laureate of Boston. I feel cursed that no video of this was taken by me. Even after her tenure with the city, she never stopped working, always striving to do more. This sudden loss is unacceptable, and the entire city should be feeling it, be made aware of it.

Danielle Legros Georges, Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series Plus Q and A with Timothy Gager, 4/25/24

Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager.

Tonight: Danielle Legros Georges at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

Hosted by Timothy Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join the call.

And don't forget to visit the author's website.

The Hard Work of Justice

This week with Mass Poetry's The Hard Work of Hope series, they take a different look at the concept of hope with a focus on Haiti. Read poems by Lenelle Moïse, Jean Dany Joachim, Danielle Legros Georges, Patrick Sylvain, Tontongi, and Jean-Calude Martineau right now over at Mass Poetry.

 

The Schedule for the 2018 Boston Poetry Marathon is Up

The Boston Poetry Marathon is a three day event, from August 10 to August 12, with over a hundred poets. I go on Saturday at 1:32 PM as part of a great block that includes friend Timothy Gager and Boston Poetry Laureate Danielle Legros Georges. That't's just a small fragment of the weekend lineup. Check it out the full schedule here.

Call for Submissions: The Mayor's Poetry Program at Boston City Hall

Along with its rich literary history, Boston is also home to many talented contemporary writers. In honor of the diverse and creative village we call Boston, the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture will display selected poems on the walls of city hall. Poets who reside or work in Boston are invited to send in work to help celebrate the city through poetry and to remind people of what a culturally exciting city Boston is to live and work in.
A public reading hosted by Boston's Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges will take place to highlight the selected poems the last week in April. 
This year’s theme is Boston's Diverse Neighborhoods.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 14, 2018

Selection Process:
Poet and Professor Kathi Aguero will select 18 poems based on strength of content and style.

Please submit the following in one document:

• Up to 3 poems (each poem 200 words or fewer) 
• A brief bio (no longer than a paragraph)

For more information, contact:
John Crowley, Curator/Exhibitions Coordinator
Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture
Boston City Hall, Room 802
Boston, Massachusetts 02201
Phone: 617/635-2368   Fax: 617/635-1850

Breaking Bread: My Poem from The Latinx Poetry Series

On Friday, as a part of Stone Soup Stagecoach, I attended the Latinx Poetry Series at Harvard University, which has been organized by Melissa Castillo-Garsow, who is spending a very productive year in Massachusetts at the college. Carmen Bardeguez-Brown was the guest speaker, instructor and feature poet at this event, which was attended by a diverse group of participants and onlookers, myself included.

More Odds and Ends from This Weekend at the Boston National Poetry Month Festival

Danielle Legros Georges,

The Mayor's Poetry Program at Boston City Hall is Open to Submissions Again

Danielle Legros Georges, Boston Poet Laureate, is involved with this, so you know it's going to be good. 

I've been part of this a couple of times. I going to try again.

Read more about the event via its Submittable page. 

You have until March 20 to submit. 

Tonight There's A Party

Stone Soup Hosts Danielle Legros Georges tonight. There will be food and festivities. Please be in attendance early, as Boston's Poet Laureate goes on first.

Boston's Poet Laureate is Featuring Tonight at Stone Soup Poetry

Read her poem in today's Stone Soup Servings column in Oddball Magazine. Then be sure to be at the Out of The Blue by 7:00 p.m. tonight.

December 21: And The Poet Laureate Comes to Stone Soup

On December, the Society of Urban Poets and Stone Soup Poetry (or as Neiel Israel put it during her recent feature, "Soup/Soup") will be holding a big holiday bash, and we're having Boston's  Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges kick off the festivities. This is going to be a tremendous night as we celebrate Stone Soup's amazing year and the friends who helped make it happen. And you get to hear an extended feature from Georges, who had an amazing year of her own as Poet Laureate. Let's start the holiday week and help end 2015 with the great style everyone at Stone Soup has been showing since the year began. IMPORTANT: Unlike previous weeks, the feature will go on first. Be at the event as close to seven o'clock p.m. as you can.

The Poet Laureate is Coming to Stone Soup

Photo by Priscilla Harmel.

Danielle Legros Georges Features on December 21.

It's a holiday party, and everyone is invited.
 

September 10: Come to The Emerge Arts Festival

The new Emerge Boston Arts Festival is a one-day celebration on September 10, 2015 of local arts and culture showcasing regional and national talent all in the setting of Boston’s architecturally iconic City Hall. Emerge Boston will feature visual art, video art, music, dance, poetry, and performance art. The evening will kick off with the awarding of the Fay Chandler Emerging Artist Awards and the opening of the accompanying exhibition. It continues with an exciting performance line up: singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell, City of Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges hosting S.O.U. P. aka Society of Urban Poetry, Percussionist and founder of Kadence Arts Maria Finkelmeier, and a sneak peek at Daniel Beaty's new play Mr. Joy. In addition, local working artist/vendors will be selling their works including jewelry, prints, ceramics.

The juried exhibition in City Hall will run for the entire month with 30 works of art from Boston’s emerging artists. 2015 is the inaugural year of the Fay Chandler Award for emerging artists, in loving memory of the artist and philanthropist with support from the Chandler Family. Daniel Beaty’s work Mr. Joy is part of his play cycle reflecting on transforming pain into power, featuring actress Tangela Large, which debuts at Arts Emerson on September 22nd.

Everyone is invited to this new free festival on Thursday September 10 from 5:00 to 10:30 pm at Boston City Hall.

WCW Twists

On Saturday I attended a workshop hosted by Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges. It was great to be introduced to new poets and meet up with friends like DiDi Delgado and Navah The Buddaphliii. 

On top of all that, I got to goof around in class.

Readers of this blog will know I have a penchant for aping William Carlos Williams. It's good practice as a poet, and once in a while I even get my bizarre  homages published. Sometimes I look at a poem, often a poem that's long, and I'll see if I can shorten it down to red wheelbarrow size. Below are three such poems I wrote during the workshop, each titled after the workshop attendees whose poems inspired me.


For Martin Rodriguez

so much depends
upon

a ginger
aryan

placed in tape
border

beside the white
heroin.


For Ellen Zellner

this house depends
upon

dad's voice of
ether

tiles of corn 
flower

between inside
barriers.


For Lynne Vitti

so much depends
upon

a long black
luger

gazed on strong 
suitor

behind the fire
station.

Two Saturdays from Now: Danielle Legros Georges Teaches a FREE Poetry Workshop

The last workshop of this summer with the new Boston Poet Laureate will be taking place at the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library on August 8, 2-4 PM.

Danielle Legros Georges was appointed Boston’s Poet Laureate by Mayor Martin J. Walsh in December 2014 and teaches at Lesley University in the Creative Arts and Learning Division. She is the author of Maroon, a book of poems, and her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. Her essays, interviews, poems, and reviews have appeared in publications including The American Poetry Review, The Boston Globe, Callaloo, Consequence, Salamander, spoKe, Solstice, Transition, World Literature Today, and the Women’s Review of Books. A resident of Dorchester, she was born in Haiti, has lived in Boston’s Haitian community of Mattapan, Chicago and New York, and has travelled to various parts of the world.

If I Was Smart, I'd Be Going to This

I can't make it, but this is going on right now, and you should try to be a part of it. Thanks to Boston's Poet Laureate Daniell LeGros Georges and DiDi Delgado​ for spreading the word on this.