The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Danielle Legros Georges (1964-2025) was one of our poetry community’s most beloved members and one of our finest poets. Born in Haiti and raised in Boston, Danielle served as Boston’s poet laureate from 2015 to 2019. During her lifetime, she published four collections of poems and two collections of translated Haitian women’s poetry, edited or co-edited two anthologies, and completed a fifth collection. Her awards and fellowships were many, including an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Emerson College, and in 2024 she was inducted into the American Antiquarian Society and named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France’s Ministry of Culture. The panelists will honor Danielle by discussing her life and work, and reading some of her exquisite poems.