Podcast appearances and mentions of danielle legros georges

Today's poem is A Dominican Poem by Danielle Legros Georges. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's poem problematizes easy notions of citizenship and arbitrary boundaries. It powerfully implores us to reflect on our advantages, to find a way to humility — and to connect with those whose freedom is not a given.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's poem is On the Death of a Young Lady Five Years of Age, a reinscription by Aracelis Girmay. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Last year, a group of poets celebrated the 250th anniversary book publication of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) by Phillis Wheatley Peters. In honor of this important milestone editors Danielle Legros Georges and Artress Bethany White solicited Black female poets to write in the manner of Phillis Wheatley, or creatively reinscribe what is found in the text as some of her abiding images and important themes. The anthology, Wheatley at 250, from which today's poem is taken, honors and celebrates the immense legacy of Phillis Wheatley Peters, whose work matters to all of us who cherish the possibilities of poems and poets to represent the highest ideals of literacy, and the miracle of language to free us.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Recorded by Danielle Legros Georges and Évelyne Trouillot for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 18, 2024. www.poets.org

Phillis Wheatley's poetry continues to inspire and to challenge us.  Poets Artress Bethany White and Danielle Legros Georges brought together twenty contemporary Black women poets to reinterpret, or reimagine, Phillis Wheatley Peters' poems.  Today, in addition to Artress and Danielle,  we are joined by two of the poets, Florence Ladd and Yalie Saweda Kamara.  Their collection Wheatley at 250:  :  Black Women Poets Re-Imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters,  a poetic conversation among past, present, and future,  features both the poems of Phillis Wheatley and their  contemporary re-imagining.Get your copy of Wheatley at 250 here: https://www.pangyrus.com/product/wheatley-at-250/

"THE DEAR REMOTE NEARNESS OF YOU speaks poetry's origin in new and startling ways. This is the precise intelligence that knows it must step carefully across the light on the surface of the water... These poems form the contiguous dance of language choosing its own body at will, traveling across light and the dimensions of unarticulated history. This is the word rubbed onto the palimpsest of our being, the careful solo soprano in the space where music ends and poetry moves in to name what is eternal and what is only in the abbreviation of now. What a delightful book from Boston's Poet Laureate."—Afaa Michael Weaver Guest Profile https://neg.fm/danielle-legros-georges/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/negmawonpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/negmawonpodcast/support

Recorded by Danielle Legros Georges for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 8, 2020. www.poets.org

Tracey Baptiste concludes her popular 'Jumbies' series, talks about diversity in publishing, and discusses her New York Times opinion on mermaids with Lesley University Professor and poet Danielle Legros Georges.Learn more about Tracey, Danielle, and our low-residency creative writing program at lesley.edu/podcast, where we've also got a link to her NYT piece, Mermaids Have Always Been Black.

On the third episode of "From the Catbird Seat," Rob Casper goes behind the scenes with Betty Sue Flowers, Mary Szybist, and Danielle Legros Georges, the jurors of the 2016 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry. They discuss their decision to award the prize to Claudia Rankine for her book Citizen, and to Nathaniel Mackey for Lifetime Achievement. Then, we'll listen to a segment from the April 2017 prize event with readings by Rankine and Mackey.

Danielle Legros Georges and Kevin Gallagher give a reading. 66 mins. Professor Danielle Legros Georges is Boston’s current poet laureate, an essayist, author, and translator, and teaches graduate art courses at Lesley University. Kevin Gallagher is an economist and an Associate Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and co-director of the Global […]

Marcela Garcia, of the Boston Globe, and Julio Ricardo Varela, of Latino Rebels joined Callie Crossley to talk about the stories that may have missed your radar this week. We also hear from Boston's new poet laureate- Danielle Legros Georges.

In the wake of recent earthquakes in Haiti and the subsequent relief efforts, we are dedicating these programs to the victims and survivors of this tragedy, presenting poems by two American writers of Haitian descent: Nadine Pinède and Danielle Legros Georges.

Bill Moyers on the crisis in Haiti, with a poem by Danielle Legros Georges.