Aricka Foreman

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Aricka Foreman is an American poet, essayist, and digital curator. [1]

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Personal life

Foreman is from Detroit, Michigan but currently lives in Chicago, Illinois. [1]

Career

Aside from writing and curating art, Foreman serves on the board of directors for The Offing. [1]

Awards and honors

Literary awards

Foreman's Salt Body Shimmer received the following accolades:

Fellowship

Foreman has received the following fellowships:

Publications

Books

Digital curation

As artist

  • “Queer as Verb: 7 Trans & Non-Binary Artists Doing the Work” (2015) [8]
  • "Except, All of Us" with Mimi Wong (2016) [9]
  • “I Slay: 11 Women Artists & Writers To Get Us Into Formation” (2016) [10]
  • “Courage in the Chasm" (2016) [11]
  • "Marginalized and Mythological: Shanequa Gay's Disruption of the Pastoral Landscape" (2018) [12]

As editor

Essays

Select poems

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References

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  2. ↑ Gentes, Brian (2021-06-02). "2021 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  3. ↑ "Firecracker Awards Winners Archive". Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  4. ↑ Madera, John (2021-02-25). "Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry!". BIG OTHER. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  5. ↑ Madera, John (2021-03-02). "Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 Big Other Readers' Choice Award!". BIG OTHER. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  6. ↑ "Blog Archive » Foreman , Aricka". Cave Canem. Archived from the original on 2018-09-09. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  7. ↑ "Millay Colony Residents Read". Cave Canem. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  8. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (2015-11-25). "Queer As Verb". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  9. ↑ Foreman, Aricka; Wong, Mimi (2016-02-02). "Except, All Of Us". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  10. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (2016-03-29). "I Slay: 11 Women Artists & Writers To Get Us Into Formation". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  11. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (2016-01-19). "Courage in the Chasm". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  12. ↑ Gay, Shanequa (2018-02-02). "Marginalized and Mythological". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  13. ↑ Brandon Tauszik (2015-08-18). "Tapered Throne/Bald Fade". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  14. ↑ Jane, E. (2015-07-21). "The Coded Body". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  15. ↑ Fegan, Angela Davis (2015-10-27). "Lavender Menace". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  16. ↑ Greenidge, Kaitlyn (2016-03-01). "Four Tales for Dry Land". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  17. ↑ Franklin, Krista (2016-04-08). "History, As Written by the Victors". The Offing. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  18. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (2016-08-17). "Let Me Get Carefree Unless It Means I Live In This Political Body And Everything Is Always On Fire Or How I Went To A Santigold Concert To Get Carefree Anyway". Vinyl Poetry and Prose. Archived from the original on 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  19. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (2018-05-25). "In Defense of Fast Girls Who Just Want to Dance". Catapult. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  20. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (May 2011). "Dig". Vinyl Poetry and Prose. 3: 32.
  21. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (May 2011). "Like the Rain, Smell It Coming". Vinyl Poetry and Prose. 3: 31.
  22. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (May 2011). "Made Mostly of Water". Vinyl Poetry and Prose. 3: 33.
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  24. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (September 2015). "go here nothing to see home". Thrush Poetry Journal. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
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  27. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (2016-09-28). "Field Study #1". The Shade Journal. Shade Literary Arts (1).
  28. ↑ Foreman, Aricka (January 20, 2017). "Poem: "When The Therapist Asks You To Recount, You Have To Say It"". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 2020-10-30. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  29. ↑ Gabbin, Joanne V.; Alleyne, Lauren K., eds. (2020). Furious flower : seeding the future of African American poetry. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. ISBN   978-0-8101-4154-4. OCLC   1104924376.
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  33. 1 2 Foreman, Aricka. "we live best/ in the spaces between two loves". ANMLY. 26.
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