Aracelis Girmay | |
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| Born | December 10, 1977 [1] |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Education | Connecticut College (BA) New York University (MFA) |
Aracelis Girmay (born December 10, 1977) [1] is an American poet. She is the author of three poetry collections, including Kingdom Animalia (2011), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. She is also an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Hampshire College. She has been teaching at Stanford University since the summer of 2023.
Aracelis Girmay is of Eritrean heritage [2] and comes from Santa Ana, California. [3] She attended Connecticut College [4] and earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University. [5]
Girmay's first collection was Teeth (2007), for which she won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. [6]
In 2011, Girmay published Kingdom Animalia, for which she was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. [7] At The Rumpus , Camille T. Dungy said, "Girmay writes of ways we can be brought together, and ways the world separates us." [8] Junot Diaz has said his favorite poem is Kingdom Animalia's titular poem, [9] writing in The New York Times :
I remember rereading these lines shortly after I lost my sister:
- Oh, body, be held now by whom you love.
- Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars,
- when dirt’s the only animal who will sleep with you
- & touch you with
- its mouth.
And I was never the same. [10]
The Black Maria (2016) was Girmay's third collection. [11] Selecting The Black Maria as a "Pick of the Week" in April 2016, Publishers Weekly described it as "a moving collection of lyrical, image-thick poems that balance on the knife edge separating vulnerability and unapologetic strength." [12] The Boston Globe named it one of the best books of 2016. [13]
Girmay is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Hampshire College. [14]
2009 winner, Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
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