Featuring Danielle Legros Georges, Jennifer Markell, Lloyd Schwartz [VIRTUAL]
February 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Danielle Legros Georges
Danielle Legros Georges’ creative and critical work sits in the fields of contemporary U.S. poetry, Black and African-diasporic literature, Caribbean/Latin American and Haitian studies, and literary translation. She has received recent fellowships and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MASS MoCA, and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund. Her poems have been published widely, and contained in national and international commissions and collaborations. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Boston in 2014. She is a professor of creative writing at Lesley University.
Learn more at daniellelegrosgeorges.com
To purchase:
Island Heart (book of translations, 2021)
The Dear Remote Nearness of You (book of poems, 2016)
Jennifer Markell
Jennifer Markell’s first poetry collection, Samsara, (Turning Point, 2014) was named a “Must Read” book of poetry by the Massachusetts Book Awards in 2015. Her second book, Singing at High Altitude, was published in November 2021 by the Main Street Rag. Jennifer’s work has been included in The Bitter Oleander, The Cimarron Review, Consequence, RHINO and the Women’s Review of Books, among others. Before joining the board, she received the Barbara Bradley and Firman Houghton poetry awards from the New England Poetry Club. Jennifer has worked in community mental health and as a therapist for over 20 years. She lives with her husband and three well-versed cats.
To purchase:
SIGNED copies of her books can be purchased directly on her website: Jennifermarkell.com
They are also available from the publisher at MainStreetRag.com
Lloyd Schwartz
Lloyd Schwartz is Poet Laureate of Somerville, MA, Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at UMass Boston, and an arts critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and WBUR. He’s received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Academy of American Poets fellowships for his poetry. He’s a principal editor of the works of Elizabeth Bishop.
To purchase:
His latest collection is Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems available through University of Chicago Press.