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"A Tending" is up at the ARTSblog as part of The Beauty in Change: Considering Aesthetics in Creative Social Change Work salon alongside writing by Arlene Goldbard, Denise Brown, Deborah Fisher, and Patrick Rosal, among others.

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Aracelis Girmay is the author of the poetry collections Teeth and Kingdom Animalia, and the collage-based picture book changing, changing. Teeth was published by Curbstone Press under the generous and brilliant stewardship of Sandy Taylor. For Teeth, Girmay received the GLCA New Writers Award, and the book was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. Kingdom Animalia was the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award (BOA Editions) and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Most recently, Girmay's poetry and essays have been published in Granta, Black Renaissance Noire, and PEN America, among other places. She has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA.

For the past few years, Girmay has been studying texts and other materials that, through form, language(s), diction, and gesture, perform and think about place and loss of place (or displacement), and what this sometimes has to do with the sea. She is currently at work on a new project tentatively titled elelegy / The Black Maria. Current collaborations include work with the Critical Projections collective and a translation project with writer and visual artist Rosalba Campra.

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Monday, January 5, 2015

Coming soon in Spoon River Poetry Review: a lyric essay on dusk, violence, and "America" in the work of Eduardo Corral, Claudia Rankine, and Jean Valentine

"A Tending" / New essay up at the ARTSblog

New poems, collages, & an essay in Black Renaissance Noire Volume 14.2

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Poems set to music composed by Harold Meltzer

"On Marathons and Feet" / Essay up at Some Call It Ballin'

Saturday, February 1, 2014

First Sentence up at GRANTA

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Three poems at PEN America, guest edited by Shane McCrae

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