Aricka Foreman

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

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:

• Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry winner (2021) ^[2]
• CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry finalist (2021) ^[3]
• Big Other Book Award in Poetry finalist (2020) ^[4]
• Big Other Reader's Choice Award finalist (2020) ^[5]

Fellowship

Foreman has received the following fellowships:

• Cave Canem Fellowship (2008, 2010, 2012, 2020) ^[6]
• Callaloo ^[1]
• Millay Colony ^[7]

Publications

Books

• Dream with a Glass Chamber (YesYes Books, 2016)
• Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books, 2020)

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

• Brandon Tauzsik, Nate Marshall, Quincy T. Mills's "Tapered Throne/Bald Fade" (2015) ^[13]
• E. Jane's “The Coded Body” (2015) ^[14]
• Angela Davis Fegan's “Lavender Menace: Feminist Fury and Visibility in Public Space” (2015) ^[15]
• Kaitlyn Greenidge and Laylah Ali's “Four Tales for Dry Land” (2016) ^[16]
• Krista Franklin's “History, As Written By The Victors” (2016) ^[17]

Essays

• "Why Spotlight Minority Mental Health?" in The Offering (2015)
• "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" on Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2016) ^[18]
• "In Defense of Fast Girls Who Just Want to Dance" in Catapult (2018) ^[19]

Select poems

• "Dig" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2011) ^[20]
• "Like the Rain, Smell It Coming" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2011) ^[21]
• "Made Mostly of Water" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2011) ^[22]
• "Monologues in Bars By White People With Good Intentions" in The James Franco Review (2015) ^[23]
• "I Got Mad Love" in The James Franco Review (2015) ^[23]
• "Consent Is A Labyrinth of Yes" in The James Franco Review (2015) ^[23]
• "go here nothing to see home" in Thrush Poetry Journal (2015) ^[24]
• "When We Say We Want Tenderness We Haven't Found A Punishment We Can Live With" in The Collagist (2016) ^[25]
• "Still Life of Acme in Spring" in The Collagist (2016) ^[26]
• "Field Study #1" in The Shade Journal (2016) ^[27]
• “When The Therapist Asks You To Recount, You Have to Say It” on Buzzfeed (2017) ^[28] and in Furious flower: seeding the future of African American poetry (2020) ^[29]
• "Menarche Malarkey the Beginning the End," published in Verse (2020) ^[30]
• "Does It Matter Who Is Your Redeemer," published in Verse (2020) ^[30]
• "Mary Woodson Sets the Grits Straight," published in Verse (2020) ^[30]
• "Breakbeat Aubade with Anemones and Lucky Fish," published in Verse (2020) ^[30]
• “Polycystic Study of Intimacy” on Academy of American Poets' poets.org (2020) ^[31]
• “Republic Americana” in Pinwheel Journal ^[32]
• “Master of Your Make-Believe” in Pinwheel Journal ^[32]
• "we live best/ in the spaces between two loves" in Anomaly ^[33]
• "Breakbeat Aubade with Anemones and Lucky Fish" in Anomaly ^[33]

External links

• Official website
• Aricka Foreman's Instagram
• Aricka Foreman's Twitter

References

1. "About | Contact". Aricka Foreman. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
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. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
5. Madera, John (2021-03-02). "Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 Big Other Readers' Choice Award!". BIG OTHER. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. 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. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
9. Foreman, Aricka; Wong, Mimi (2016-02-02). "Except, All Of Us". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
10. Foreman, Aricka (2016-03-29). "I Slay: 11 Women Artists & Writers To Get Us Into Formation". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
11. Foreman, Aricka (2016-01-19). "Courage in the Chasm". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
12. Gay, Shanequa (2018-02-02). "Marginalized and Mythological". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
13. Brandon Tauszik (2015-08-18). "Tapered Throne/Bald Fade". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
14. Jane, E. (2015-07-21). "The Coded Body". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
15. Fegan, Angela Davis (2015-10-27). "Lavender Menace". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
16. Greenidge, Kaitlyn (2016-03-01). "Four Tales for Dry Land". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
17. Franklin, Krista (2016-04-08). "History, As Written by the Victors". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. 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. Archived from the original on 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
23. "Poetry by Arika Foreman". The James Franco Review (5). 2015-11-30. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
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.
25. Foreman, Aricka (2016-08-08). "When We Say We Want Tenderness We Haven't Found A Punishment We Can Live With". The Collagist. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
26. Foreman, Aricka (2016-08-08). "Still Life of Acme in Spring". The Collagist. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
27. Foreman, Aricka (2016-09-28). "Field Study #1". The Shade Journal (1). Shade Literary Arts. Archived from the original on 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
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.
30. "Salt Body Shimmer". verse.press. Archived from the original on 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
31. Foreman, Aricka (2020-11-20). "Polycystic Study of Intimacy". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
32. Foreman, Aricka. "Two Poems". Pinwheel. Archived from the original on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
33. Foreman, Aricka. "we live best/ in the spaces between two loves". ANMLY. 26. Archived from the original on 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2022-01-10.