Chelsey Minnis

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Chelsey Minnis (born 1970 in Dallas, Texas) [1] is an American poet. Her collections of poetry include Zirconia, Bad Bad, Poemland, and Baby I Don't Care. Zirconia won the 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry. [2] She received a B. A. in English from the University of Colorado Boulder and studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [3]

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Minnis's work was described as expressing a "gurlesque" aesthetic by Arielle Greenberg, which she described as "a feminine, feminist incorporating of the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy." [4]

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  1. ↑ "Authorized Heading, References and Notes (Library of Congress Authorities)". authorities.loc.gov. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  2. ↑ 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry Archived May 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Chelsey Minnis". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ↑ Arielle Greenberg, "Some Notes on the Origin of the (Term) Gurlesque," Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics, ed. Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, Saturnalia Books, 2010, p. 2


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