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BOSTON
– June 24, 2015 – Boston Public Library and the Mayor’s Office of Arts
and Culture announce branch visits by the City of Boston’s Poet
Laureate, Danielle Legros Georges, who will travel to Boston Public
Library locations this summer to meet and engage with aspiring and
practicing poets throughout the city. Interested participants can bring
examples of their work for discussion, or questions and comments for the
Poet Laureate Program.
“The drop-in workshops from such a highly
accomplished poet are a unique learning opportunity to develop one’s
skills and celebrate creativity and the arts in the City of Boston,”
said Christine Schonhart, Boston Public Library’s Director of Library
Services for the Branches.
The following visits take place in Boston Public Library branches:
- Saturday, June 27, from 2 – 4 p.m. at the East Boston Branch, located at 365 Bremen Street.
- Saturday, July 25, from 2 – 4 p.m. at the Mattapan Branch, located at 1350 Blue Hill Avenue.
- Saturday, August 8, from 2 – 4 p.m. at the Honan-Allston Branch, located at 300 North Harvard Street.
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.
About BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Boston
Public Library has a Central Library, twenty-four branches, map center,
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services. Established in 1848, the Boston Public Library has pioneered
public library service in America. It was the first large free municipal
library in the United States, the first public library to lend books,
the first to have a branch library, and the first to have a children’s
room. Each year, the Boston Public Library hosts thousands of programs
and serves millions of people. All of its programs and exhibitions are
free and open to the public. At the Boston Public Library, books are
just the beginning. To learn more, visit
bpl.org.
