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Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné

Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a poet and visual artist from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been published in Poetry London, The Rialto, The Prairie Schooner, The Asian American Literary Review, Wasafiri, and others. She was awarded the Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2016, and shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize in 2017 and 2020. Her first collection of poetry, Doe Songs (Peepal Tree Press, 2018) was awarded the OCM Prize in Caribbean Poetry.

Still Seeds

Posted on February 12, 2026 by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné

Daughter, drink the bitter things first: there is almost always medicine in what stings most. For instance, each leaf must steep in boiling water to do its work. Each blade of grass must first bruise to become medicine vervine, soursop, …

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Mama River

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné

This river is not my mother. My mother is the red knot in my eye My mother is this necklace of beads and bone My mother is lichen, moss and undergrowth My mother is salt, tide and undertow My mother …

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