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Monday, August 5, 2013

Poetry in Motion is back!!!!!

...and i am immensely HONORED to have a poem on the subway and on metrocards. The poem on the subway is paired with a mosaic by artist Elizabeth Murray. Other writers and artists whose work is part of the recent poetry in motion curation: Dorothea Tanning, Joan Linder, Kevin Young, Raul Colón, Tracy K. Smith, Amy Bennett, Billy Collins, and Chase Twichell!!!!

http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/

b i o + projects:

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, August 5, 2013

Poetry in Motion is back!!!!!

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ALSO: KEEPING AN EYE OUT (!!!) FOR NEW BOOKS + PROJECTS BY ----->

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