Danielle Legros Georges (1964-2025) was a poet, translator, anthologist, and editor. Her chapbook Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England was published by Staircase Books in May; her most recent full-length collection, Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo Story, was published by Beacon in January. Other recent volumes are Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets (2024, translations), and Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (2023, co-edited with Bethany Artress White). Legros Georges was Poet Laureate of Boston from 2015–2019 and professor emerita of creative writing at Lesley University. Her website is daniellelegrosgeorges.com
