Poet

Here is a picture of the Haitian-American Danielle Legros Georges, Boston's official Poet Laureate.

Danielle Legros Georges, a teacher of Creative Arts at Lesley University, is the new poet laureate of Boston. Her four year term will begin in January 2015. Danielle is a widely published poet and translator and a native of Haiti who moved to the United States at age of six with her parents who settled down in Mattapan, amid a small Haitian population, that has since expanded dramatically. She writes on a variety of topics, some of which was created out of her experience as a Haitian diaspora. Her academic area focuses on contemporary American poetry, Caribbean literature and studies, African-American poetry, literary translation, and the arts in education.

She will receive an annual stipend of $2,000 and a fund of $3,000 to arrange programs on "raising the consciousness of Bostonians on local poets". Since her mother died of a prolonged illness, she understands the needs and wants to work on the elder care facilities for senior citizens.

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Here is a picture of Jacques Roche who was assassinated after being kidnapped. He was a journalist and poet. Jacques Roche was kidnapped on July 11, 2005 by a group of unknown people and on July 14, 2005, he was found dead, tied to a chair and mutilated.

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Maurice Alfrédo Sixto is affectionately called Moy. He was born in Gonaives, Haiti on 23 May 1919. He is unquestionably the biggest name in Haitian literature with many other interchangeable characters like, sociologist, storyteller, revolutionary, humorist and moralist. His literary talent is often compared with other world classes such as Shakespeare, Moliere, Bill Cosby, Achebe, Dostoevsky and Victor Hugo.

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Alexandre Dumas is also known as Alexandre Dumas, père. His father was born in the island Of Saint-Domingue, known today as Haiti. The father is a mix from a French nobleman and a black slave woman from Saint-Domingue.
After the election of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1851 in France, Alexandre Dumas left France for Belgium, where he stayed for several years.
He then moved to Russia and then to Italy. he finally returned to Paris in 1864.
His most popular work was novels of high adventure.
This work was translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is the most widely read French authors in history. Other work from Alexandre Dumas include The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne

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Here is a picture of the Congress of Negro Writers and Artists taken on September 19, 1956. This list is where you would find some of the greatest names in Haitian writers at La Sorbonne

In this picture, you find the following:
Jacques Rabemananjara 2nd from left,
Emile Saint-Lot (Haitian),
Alioune Diop,
Mme Price-Mars (Haitian),
Jean Price-Mars (Haitian),
Paul Hazoume, Léopold Sédar Senghor (president of Senegal),
Jacques Stephen-Alexis (Haitian),
Georges Lamming.

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Born on November 15, 1942 in the Haitian city of Jérémie, Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic Josaphat-Robert Large, left Haiti in 1963 after his arrest by the Francois Duvalier regime and moved to new York.

Josaphat-Robert Large studied at Columbia University and later learned photography at New York institute of Photography. He writes frequently for several Haitian newspapers such as Haiti Progres, Haïti-en- Marche, le Nouvelliste and Lire Haiti. His novel Les terres entourées de larmes won the prestigious Caribbean literary Prize in 2003, nominated for the Haitian grand Literary Prize of 2004, along side with Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Gary Klang, Dany Laferrière and Leslie Manigat

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Haitian poet and novelist Louis-Philippe Dalembert was born on December 8, 1962 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
He writes in both French and Haitian creole. The son of a school teacher and principal, Louis-Philippe Dalembert spent his early childhood in Bel-Air, Haiti. He grew up with extended families like his mother's cousins, his elder sister, his great-aunts and his maternal grandmother. Louis-Philippe Dalembert first job was working as a journalist. He moved to France in 1986 and obtained a PhD in comparative literature. He has resided in Nancy, Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Florence

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This is Lyonel Trouillot who was born in Port-au-Prince , Haiti , on 31 December 1956.

He is a novelist and poet expressions Creole and French.

Lyonel Trouillot studied law due to family pressure but soon realized that his passion was in writing literature. He is a regular writer in several newspapers in the country. Poet, he also published many poems. some of his works are put into music such as song lyrics for artists like Manno Charlemagne and Tambou Libète. Plolitically, he was also involved in several fights to restore democracy in Haiti. He was made Chevalier of Arts and Letters in June 2010 .

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This is the Haitian poet, René Depestre. He was born on August 29, 1926 in the city of Jacmel, Haiti.

René Depestre is a Haitian poet and former communist activist.

He published his first set of work at the age of 19, with his first collection of poetry, appeared in 1945, with Étincelles. Rene Depestre had the chance to meet many Haitian intellectual contemporaries, such as Jean Price-Mars, Léon Laleau, and René Bélance,
Politically, Depestre was involved in the revolutionary student movements of January 1946, which led to the removal of President Élie Lescot from office. Following the movement, he was arrested and spent some time in jai. Upon his release from jail, Rene Depestre was exiled and . He studied political science at the Sorbonne from 1946 - 1950.

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This is the picture of Haitian writer, Félix Morisseau-Leroy.

Félix Morisseau-Leroy was known for writing many of his work in the Haitian Creole language and he was the first in this area. He was born on March 13, 1912 and died September 5, 1998
Félix Morisseau-Leroy pushed for the recognition of Haitian Creole is widely appreciated. He was given credit for making Creole as an official language of Haiti.
He made some international contributions as well. Félix Morisseau-Leroy helped to develop national literature in Ghana and Senegal. He also contributed to the Haitian community in the Diaspora. In Miami specifically, he was very influential in making Creole accepted in a variety of public institutions and also encouraged its study in academia.

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