Podcasts about Aracelis Girmay

Ross Gay is a writer with a mission: to help readers explore the beautiful complexities of joy, gratitude, and delight.  In his essays and poetry, Gay brings his overflowing kindness and relentless eye for details to community gardens, the lives of Black people, the artistry of basketball, and much more. He is the author of the poetry collections Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and Be Holding, and the essay collections The Book of Delights, Inciting Joy and The Book of (More) Delights.On May 2, 2025, Ross Gay came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to read from his work and talk with poet and editor Aracelis Girmay.  

What is the appeal of dark picture books? Do kids want to read (and re-read) books about tougher topics? How do you make these books kid-friendly?  Julie Hedlund leads our Roundtable discussion about dark picture books, what place they have in children's lives, and why they can be so important.  Books mentioned in this episode: The Rough Patch by Brian Lies The Longest Letsgoboy by Derick Wilder and Catia Chien Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson and Hudson Talbott Kamau & ZuZu Find a Way by Aracelis Girmay and Diana Ejaita Finding Papa by Angela Pham Krans and Thi Bui Lubna and Pebble by Wendy Meddour and Daniel Egnéus The House Before Falling into the Sea by Ann Suk Wan and Hanna Cha The Skull by Jon Klassen The Cat Man of Aleppo by Karim Shamsi-Basha, Irene Latham, Yuko Shimizu The Circus Comes to the Village by Yutaka Kobayashi Let this episode linger and check out a few of these picks as you discover the world of dark picture books.

Today's poem is On the Death of a Young Lady Five Years of Age, a reinscription by Aracelis Girmay. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Last year, a group of poets celebrated the 250th anniversary book publication of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) by Phillis Wheatley Peters. In honor of this important milestone editors Danielle Legros Georges and Artress Bethany White solicited Black female poets to write in the manner of Phillis Wheatley, or creatively reinscribe what is found in the text as some of her abiding images and important themes. The anthology, Wheatley at 250, from which today's poem is taken, honors and celebrates the immense legacy of Phillis Wheatley Peters, whose work matters to all of us who cherish the possibilities of poems and poets to represent the highest ideals of literacy, and the miracle of language to free us.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Jessica Cuello reads from her latest book. Jessica and Dion also read the poem "Running Home I Saw the Planets" from Aracelis Girmay's book Kingdom Animalia. Jessica Cuello's most recent book is Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her book Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award, and a finalist nod for The Housatonic Book Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in Central NY.

Join Mary in the new season of the podcast as she hosts for the first time on her own. Wyatt and Mary interview Nicola Salmon about fat positive fertility, and Mary reads a poem by Aracelis Girmay. 

Peripheries Journal: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound is celebrating the release of Issue 6. This 2024 edition includes work from Victoria Chang, Angie Estes, Aracelis Girmay, Joanna Klink, Sam Messer, Geoffrey Nutter, Sharon Olds, Alice Oswald, Rowan Ricardo Philips, Tracy K. Smith and many more. General pages are joined by a folio, “Anti-Letters,” that comprises the “personal” writings (ephemera, letters, lists, notes, recordings, photographs etc.) of poets such as Cody-Rose Clevidence, David Grubbs, Susan Howe, Jill Magi, and Jane Miller, among others. This year's publication featured readings from Victoria Chang, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald. This event took place November 30, 2023. For more information, https://hds.harvard.edu/ A transcript is forthcoming.

Recorded by Aracelis Girmay for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on October 6, 2023. www.poets.org

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The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released new guidelines for weight management interventions in children. These recommendations include weight loss medications and bariatric surgeries, both of which are unethical and not evidence-based. Gathering to discuss the implications, their fears, and what we can do to protect the most marginalized children are Kanoelani Patterson, Dr. Asher Larmi, Dr. Rachel Millner, & Ragen Chastain.Experts on this episode:Kanoelani Patterson (she/her) is a Black, fat-positive masters social worker who specializes in working with children, adolescents & families. Kanoelani is also a powerlifter and co-author of the anthology called “Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex: How to resist, disrupt and reclaim what it means to be fit in American Culture.”Dr. Asher Larmie (they/them) is a transgender, non-binary GP/ family Doctor with over 20 years of medical experience. They are a fat activist and host a successful podcast called The Fat Doctor Podcast, and here is part 1 of their series on the AAP Guidelines.Dr. Rachel Millner (she/her) is a psychologist and activist who supports people with eating disorders, disordered eating, and those wanting to heal their relationship with food and body. Rachel is a fat activist, a fat positive provider, and works from a Heath at Every Size and Body Trust framework. And here's Rachel's note to kids about the AAP guidelines.Ragen Chastain (she/her) who is a speaker, writer, researcher, Board Certified Patient Advocate, multi-certified health and fitness professional, and thought leader in weight science, weight stigma, health, and healthcare. Ragen wrote about the AAP guidelines in her newsletter, and you should also check out the HAES Health Sheets.Maintenance Phase and Virginia Sole-Smith have also commented on these AAP Guidelines.This episode's poem is called “Elegy” and is by Aracelis Girmay.Hi, Sophia here! If you enjoy this podcast, and this episode, please do consider supporting our efforts by becoming a Patron or subscribing through your Apple Podcasts player.

Created and hosted by poet and former Greenlight bookseller Angel Nafis, Greenlight's Poetry Salon welcomes locally and nationally celebrated poets for a powerful and moving evening of poetry and performance. For our triumphant return to in-person Salons, we welcomed Renia White and her collection Casual Conversation, alongside esteemed poet Aracelis Girmay (The Black Maria), who selected it for BOA Editions's Blessing the Boats Selections. White's debut poetry collection strikes up a conversation, considering what's being said, what isn't, and where it all comes from, probing the norms and mores of everyday interactions. Listen back to a reverent and joyful evening in verse, led in ceremony by our masterful host Nafis. (Recorded May 26, 2022.)  

In 2022 Poetry Spoken Here celebrated its 200th episode. We had guests from across the United States and around the world. We also shared even more readings from the Unamuno Author Festival which took place in 2019. Guests you will hear on this episode include Ashley M. Jones, the first Black Poet Laureate of Alabama, Emmy Award-Winning Director Violet Du Feng, Polaris Award-Winning throat-singer, poet, and activist Tanya Tagaq and many, many more. In order or appearance in the show: Episode 181: Ashley M. Jones: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-180-ashley-m-jones-poet-laureate-of-alabama Episode 182: Jonathan Mayers: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-182-jonathan-mayers-poet-laureate-of-baton-rouge-on-writing-in-english-and-kouri-vini Episode 198: Marty Gervais https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-198-marty-gervais-first-poet-laureate-of-windsor-ontario-shares-tales-from-the-road Episode 200: Tanya Tagaq: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-200-tanya-tagaq-reads-from-split-tooth Episode 189: Wendy Hind: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-189-open-mic-of-the-air-11 Episode 190: Teresa Dzieglewicz: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-190-teresa-dzieglewicz-on-teaching-at-standing-rock Episode 195: Jim Cohn: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-195-jim-cohn-and-the-power-of-the-storm-anthology Episode 204: Violet Du Feng: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-204-violet-du-feng-director-of-hidden-letters-on-the-secret-language-of-chinese-women Episode 202: Aracelis Girmay: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-202-aracelis-girmay-reading-at-the-unamuno-author-festival SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Aracelis Girmay reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at La Residencia de Estudiantes which cultural luminaries such as Frederico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali once called home. Learn more about Aracelis Girmay, here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/aracelis-girmay SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Connor and Jack explore Aracelis Girmay's poem "Elegy" from her 2011 collection Kingdom Animalia. They talk through the opening line's call to community and the ways it resonates with Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese," they get scientific while discussing the nature imagery in the poem, and they delve into the poem's pandemic-era relevance. Elegy By: Aracelis Girmay What to do with this knowledge that our living is not guaranteed? Perhaps one day you touch the young branch of something beautiful. & it grows & grows despite your birthdays & the death certificate, & it one day shades the heads of something beautiful or makes itself useful to the nest. Walk out of your house, then, believing in this. Nothing else matters. All above us is the touching of strangers & parrots, some of them human, some of them not human. Listen to me. I am telling you a true thing. This is the only kingdom. The kingdom of touching; the touches of the disappearing, things. Find us on Facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking 
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To read Hayden's poem, click here (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46460/frederick-douglass). Thanks to W.W. Norton & Company for granting us permission to read this poem. Reginald Dwayne Betts's introduction to the Collected Poems of Robert Hayden (https://wwnorton.com/books/9780871406798/about-author) is very moving, as is the afterword by Arnold Rampersad. For a series of insightful observations about Hayden's sonnet, see Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Patrick Rosal, and Ira Sadoff, "Poets Respond: A Discussion of "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden." American Poetry Review, 38.3 (2009): 25-28. For a helpful close reading of the poem, see Fred M. Fetrow, "Robert Hayden's 'Frederick Douglass': Form and Meaning in a Modern Sonnet." CLA Journal 17.1 (September 1973): 78-84.

Today on Boston Public Radio: Dr. Katherine Gergen-Barnett takes questions from listeners on the latest mask guidance from the state, when to replace your mask, the importance of booster shots and more. Gergen-Barnett teaches in the family medicine department at Boston Medical Center and Boston University Medical School. Meredith Goldstein gives out Valentine's Day advice and takes listener calls on all things love. Goldstein is an advice columnist and features writer for the Boston Globe. Her advice column, “Love Letters,” is a daily dispatch of wisdom for the lovelorn that has been running for more than a decade. She also hosts the “Love Letters” podcast. Richard Blanco reads his favorite love poems, including his poem “Killing Mark,” his poem “Maybe” and “You Are Who I Love” by Aracelis Girmay. He's the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history. His latest book, “How to Love a Country,” deals with various socio-political issues that shadow the United States. Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III debrief last night's Super Bowl and the halftime show. Rev. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour's African American Heritage Trail. Rev. Price is founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston and the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music. Together they host the All Rev'd Up podcast at GBH. Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel introduce themselves as the new hosts of Morning Edition, and talk through this morning's headlines. Alston and Siegal are the new co-hosts of GBH's Morning Edition, which you can catch every weekday from 5 until 10 AM.  We end the show by asking listeners if they think playing sports can make you a better person.

Show Description Can any label or identity explain our freedom, our community or history? How do you identify and what does it mean? In this special episode with Jasminne Mendez, Darrel Alejandro Holnes and Raina J. León explores the fluidity of terms and identity as Black Latinx,o,e,a people from the diaspora. Work featured by Toni Morrison, Aracelis Girmay, Alan Pelaez Lopez and Elizabeth Acevedo. Episode produced by Cin Pimentel. Transcription by Victor Jackson. Show Notes  Social Media for Darrel - @blackboytraveljoy (Insta) and darrelholnes.com (website) Books: Stepmotherland (Notre Dame University Press, 2022); Migrant Psalms (Northwestern University Press, 2021) Social Media for Raina - @rainaleon (IG, Twitter, Facebook) and rainaleon.com (website); @storyjoyinc on IG and Twitter and storyjoyinc.com and check out acentosreview.com and @acentosreview on IG and Twitter and Facebook Books and other work: Canticle of Idols ( CW Books, 2008); profeta without refuge (Nomadic Press, 2016); Areyto to Atabey: Essays on the Mother(ing) Self (Alley Cat Books, 2019); Boogeyman Dawn; sombra : (dis)locat Social Media for Jasminne - IG/Twitter: @jasminnemendez  Website: www.jasminnemendez.com Social Media for Cin- Cin Pim - cinpim.com  Additional list of Afro-Latinx authors to check out ★  Jasminne Mendez ★  Darrel Alejandro Holnes ★  Raina J. León ★  Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa ★  Grisel Y. Acosta ★  Willie Perdomo ★  Aracelis Girmay ★  Alan Pelaez Lopez ★  Ariana Brown ★  John Murillo ★  Elizabeth Acevedo ★  Thea Matthews ★  Kay Nilsson ★  Dizzy Jenkins ★  Avotcja ★  Yesenia Montilla  ★  Roberto Carlos Garcia ★  Mathew Rodriguez ★  Azuah ★  Adriana Herrera ★  Aya de León ★  Sulma Arzu-Brown Prompts for teachers considering teaching the podcast ★ When you consider the title of the podcast, What the water carries, what comes to mind? ★ Listen to the quotation from Toni Morrison. What does it mean to you?         ○ Read the essay, The Site of Memory, after you have listened to the podcast. How are the ideas of the podcast and the essay in conversation with one another? ★ In this prompt, watch Aracelis Girmay read another section from The Black Maria. Have you ever been suspected of doing or being something or someone you are not?  Write about that. In partners, tell this story to someone else. After you have shared this story, tell your partner who you are or how you want to be seen and in answer, your partner should say, “I see you you for who you are and who you want to be”. Write about what it is to hear that sentence from someone who is not your family or dearest friend. ★ Consider the term Latinx? What does it mean for you? One of the poets mentioned, Alan Pelaez Lopez, talks about how the “x” is a sign of a wound, not a trend. What do they mean? How does the essay complicate your understanding of what it means to be Latinx? ★ What are the songs that you keep on repeat, the songs that you need to hear over and over again, the songs that reveal an important part of who you are? Listen to “La Rebelión” by Joe Arroyo. Now read the poem from Elizabeth Acevedo mentioned in the podcast. Follow Acevedo's form to write your own poem         ○ First stanza: reveal a memory of a particular moment when you heard that song you love         ○ Second stanza: incorporate a line or a word from the song you love and how it connects to your body or reveals who you are         ○ Third stanza: tell us about the place around this memory.  Where is the story you are telling taking place?         ○ Fourth stanza: Show is you dancing or moving to this music that you treasure.

In a short poem recalling a childhood response to grief, Jacob Shores-Argüello brings us into the fantasy world of a child: leaving an ill adult in a hospital bed, he and his cousin take to the mountains, turn magically into bears, and begin tearing holes in the earth for rest while the world continues below. Are they escaping? Or playing with rage? This extraordinary poem is a thing of wonder and survival.Jacob Shores-Argüello is a Costa Rican American poet and prose writer. He is the author of poetry books  In The Absence of Clocks and Paraíso, which was selected for the inaugural CantoMundo Poetry Prize judged by Aracelis Girmay. He is a 2018/019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and a Lannan Literary Fellow for Poetry. His poetry appears in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and The Academy of American Poets, among others. His fiction appears in The Oxford American, among others.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Ina Cariño on her selection: Aracelis Girmay's “You are Who I Love,” first published in 2017, is still so, so needed today. The repetition of the title throughout the poem gives it a musicality that mimics the chants of those who march in the streets. I chose this poem because it calls to and speaks for all of us: those who fight for what is dear to them, those who heal and need healing, and those who give and give even when no one is looking. It's my hope that this poem and poems like this can be not just rallying cries for social justice, but also love songs to ourselves and to each other. the black maria, by Aracelis Girmay: Music: “Shift of Currents” by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

Seema Yasmin gathers a powerful line-up of poets—George Abraham, Aracelis Girmay, José Olivarez, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Yalini Thambynayagam—to celebrate Yasmin's poetry collection, If God Is A Virus. Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States, and the poet's experiences as a doctor and journalist, If God Is A Virus charts the course of the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, telling the stories of Ebola survivors, outbreak responders, journalists and the virus itself. These documentary poems explore which human lives are valued, how editorial decisions are weighed, what role the aid industrial complex plays in crises, and how medical myths and rumor can travel faster than microbes. These poems also give voice to the virus. Eight percent of the human genome is inherited from viruses and the human placenta would not exist without a gene descended from a virus. If God Is A Virus reimagines viruses as givers of life and even authors of a viral-human self-help book. Featuring: Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, disease detective and author. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting in 2017 with her team from The Dallas Morning News for coverage of a mass shooting. Yasmin was a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she chased outbreaks in maximum-security prisons, American Indian reservations, border towns and hospitals. Currently, Dr. Yasmin is a Stanford professor, medical analyst for CNN and science correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment. Find her at seemayasmin.com, Twitter @DoctorYasmin and Instagram: @drseemayasmin. Aracelis Girmay is the author of three books of poems: the black maria (BOA, 2016); Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007), winner of a GLCA New Writers Award; and Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011), the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Girmay currently serves as the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor in the English Department. George Abraham is a Palestinian-American poet, educator, and engineer who grew up on unceded Timucuan lands. They are the author of their debut collection Birthright, winner of the Big Other Book Award, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry, and was named on Best of 2020 lists with The Asian American Writers' Workshop and The New Arab. Janice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a daughter of immigrants from the Philippines, and the author of two books of poetry: microchips for millions and like a solid to a shadow. She's been profiled in Content Magazine, Mercury News, SF Gate, and Metro Silicon Valley. Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Apogee Journal, Entropy, The Offing, poets.org, Split This Rock's Poem-of-the-Week, and Waxwing Literary Journal. José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It was named a top book of 2018 by The Adroit Journal, NPR, and the New York Public Library. Along with Felicia Chavez and Willie Perdomo, he co-edited the poetry anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext. https://joseolivarez.com/ YaliniDream is a touring performing artist, organizer, somatics practitioner, and consultant with over twenty years' experience using artistic tools for healing, organizing, and dignity with communities contending with violence and oppression. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/QPIZZhVeTGY Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Aracelis Girmay is the author of the poetry collections Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and the black maria. She is also the author/collagist of the picture book changing, changing, and with her sister collaborated on the recently published What Do You Know? Girmay is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and recently curated How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cbaw/support

Episode 093. Essah Cozett celebrates her recent accomplishments, reflects on her journey, and reads a poem by Aracelis Girmay.

On today's episode, Bob and Chris are thrilled to welcome Diannely Antigua! The three explore how poetry can connect disparate things, Diannely reads "Elegy" by Aracelis Girmay, and then the three talk about how rad Jaylen Brown is. Diannely's book: https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/ugly-music-by-diannely-antigua Diannely's website: https://diannelyantigua.com/ Diannely's twitter: https://twitter.com/nellfell13

The BreakBeat Poets Live! is a virtual, multi-generational showcase of some of the illest writers on the planet rock. Each chapter features writers and performers who are part of the Haymarket Books family. Mixing lofi soul instrumentals with funk influences and smooth vocals. Elton Aura has a unique knack for words, flow, and beat selection. He opened up for Noname on her Room 25 tour in 2019 and is in the later stages of his next project coming in 2020. Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017) and the forthcoming Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021). Aracelis Girmay is the author of the poetry books Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and the black maria, and the picture book changing, changing. She is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and recently edited a new Selected of Lucille Clifton poems entitled How to Carry Water. --- Juan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father. He is the author of three poetry collections, including The Handyman's Guide to End Times, Winner of the 2019 International Latino Book Award. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondo Fellow, the Editor/Publisher of Pilgrimage Press, and Professor and Department Chair of English & World Languages at Colorado State University-Pueblo. --- José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His book, Citizen Illegal, won of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize and was named a top book of 2018 by NPR. ​He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Poets House, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. Olivarez was awarded the Author and Artist in Justice award from the Phillips Brooks House Association and named a Debut Poet of 2018 by Poets & Writers. He is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. --- Willie Perdomo is the author of The Crazy Bunch, which recently won the New York City Book Award for poetry, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Smoking Lovely, winner of the PEN Open Book Award, and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. He is also a co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Best American Poetry 2019, and African Voices. He is currently a Lucas Arts Literary Fellow and teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy. --- Diamond Sharp is a poet and essayist from Chicago. She has performed at Chicago's Stage 773 and her work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio. She has been published in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Vice, Pitchfork, Lenny, PANK, and others. A Callaloo fellow, she has also attended the Wright/Hurston workshop and is a member of the inaugural Poetry Foundation Incubator class. Her debut book of poetry, Super Sad Black Girl, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books. Diamond is an alumna of Wellesley College. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/9fyjCPbIKCM Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

This bonus episode revisits and remixes the virtual launch events for Paris Review issues 233 and 234, summer and fall  2020—no Zoom room required! First, Eloghosa Osunde reads the opening of her story “Good Boy”; next, Aracelis Girmay reads Lucille Clifton’s “Poem to My Yellow Coat”; then Lydia Davis shares  her short piece “The Left Hand”; translator Patricio Ferrari recites “Crater of the Beginning” by Portuguese poet Antonio Osorio; Jamel Brinkley reads an excerpt from his story “Witness”; Rabih Alameddine reads from his story “The July War”; Emma Hine presents her poem “Cassandra”; and the episode concludes with Girmay’s awe-filled recollection of her visit to Clifton’s archive, plus her rendition of Clifton’s poem “Bouquet.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Franny and Danez get their hands dirty with the inimitable Aracelis Girmay! The prolific and wonderful poet talks about the childhood joy of dirt, parenting in a pandemic, how she centers truth in her poetry, and much more. Plus, we start off with a potential new name for the show…? NOTE: Make sure you rate us on Apple Podcasts and write us a review!

BILINGUAL: ENGLISH/ESPAÑOL Manuel Frau Ramos, fundador y editor de El Sol Latino, y Natalia Muñoz de Holyoke Media, conversan en español e inglés con el reconocido autor, poeta y artista profesor de inglés en la Universidad of Massachusetts-Amherst, Martín Espada. La obra más reciente de Martín Espada es de editor de una antología, la cual el es el editor, que lleva el provocativo título "What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump." Publicado a finales del año pasado (October 15, 2019). Además, algo que ha sido muy importante, es que Martín ha sido un consistente aliado de El Sol Latino, como muy pocas personas lo ha sido. Martín Espada nació en Brooklyn, Nueva York en 1957. Ha publicado casi 20 libros como poeta, editor, ensayista y traductor. La antología reúne una extraordinaria diversidad de voces. Entre los 93 poetas incluidos en este proyecto se encuentran, Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Álvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Donald Hall, Juan Felipe Herrera, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, Danez Smith, Patricia Smith, Brian Turner, Ocean Vuong, Bruce Weigl, y Eleanor Wilner. Espada reciente publicó el 17 de julio de 2020 una poesía en revista digital 80grados.net dedicada al doctor en medicina y padre del movimiento independentista de Puerto Rico, Ramón Emeterio Betances. La poesía publicada en la "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances" resalta las virtudes humanista. Esta obra esta acompañada con una introducción titulada, "Del Covid al cólera según Espada (y Betances)", escrita por el catedrático auxiliar en el Departamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, César A. Salgado. Puedes conocer más sobre el prolífico autor Martin Espada y su extensa obra literaria visitando su página hwww.martinespada.net. Y EN ESTOS SITIOS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/mespadapoet/status/1299361822751981569 FB: https://www.facebook.com/martinespadapoet/posts/249376860059783 IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEcAwvOhQGN/

When you’re writing by hand, where is your other hand? What story is the space between your two hands — your dominant hand and non-dominant hand — telling?This poem considers the posture of the body when writing: writing a letter, writing a note, writing a poem. The poet pays attention to hands — when dancing, when speaking from the heart, in prayer. This poem invites the listener to slow down, to listen to the stories the body is telling by how it's held in small moments.   Aracelis Girmay is originally from Southern California and now lives in New York. She is the author of the poetry collections Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and The Black Maria. Her essay "From Woe to Wonder" can be read in the Arts & Culture section of The Paris Review (June, 2020). Girmay recently edited How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton and she is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

This is our first attempt at a "mini" episode! Paola talks about the Sun, the Moon, and Janice reads poems by Hafez and Aracelis Girmay, -- 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:08 - Sun 00:16:35 - Moon 00:33:48 - Poem: "The Black Maria" by Aracelis Girmay 00:49:56 - Shoutouts!

Whewwww, well! It's been a while. I'm back, for today, with a poem by Aracelis Girmay as we approach Election Day. Music: "Of My Dreams" by Sean Angus Winston. Follow the pod on Instagram (@wordsinthemiddle) and Twitter (@WITMpod). Shoot me an email: wordsinthemiddle@gmail.com. See a word or a phrase on social media that we've discussed? Hit it with a #WITMpod! Or, if you're really feelin' it, throw me a 5 star review.

Today's poem is You Are Who I Love by Aracelis Girmay.

Today's poem is You Are Who I Love by Aracelis Girmay.

Today's poem is You Are Who I Love by Aracelis Girmay.

We kick off our Writing Series with a focus on writing academic books! La Profesora talks with Dra. Lorgia Garcia-Peña about her journey in writing her first award-winning book, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke University Press, 2016) and how she carried the idea for her second book, Translating Blackness: Migrations and Detours of Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspectives from the beginning of her graduate studies.  Our Poet-In-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales, shares poetry from Aracelis Girmay.

“How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton,” edited by Aracelis Girmay, is a literary special treat.

Excerpt from the poem "The Black Maria" by Aracelis Girmay

This week our guest is Deborah Paredez, co-founder of CantoMundo, and author of Year of the Dog, a book of poetry. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, andSubmitting more, and submitting after rejectionReckoning with silenceAnd moreIf you’re a new listener to Fierce Womxn Writing, I would love to hear from you. Please visit my Contact Page and tell me about your writing challenges.Follow this WriterVisit her WebsiteOrder her poetry collection, Year of the Dog, that explores themes of grief, the Vietnam War, and poetic formFollow the PodcastVisit the Website for more info on the podcastFollow the HostSlide into Sara Gallagher’s DM’s on InstagramFollow our PartnersLearn more about The Feminist Press, which lifts up insurgent and marginalized voices from around the world to build a more just future. Become an AdvertiserUse my Contact Page or hit me up on InstaThis Week’s Writing PromptEach week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.This week’s writing prompt is: Make a list of language, stories, figures, or images that we see as so completely mundane that we don’t even notice them. Then write what you know and notice about that familiar piece of language. Then write a story to pull it from its familiarity to something more strange or wondrous or meaningful. Explore Womxn AuthorsIn this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:Aracelis Girmay, author of Black MariaLucille Clifton, author of Blessing the BoatsEnsure the Podcast ContinuesLove what you’re hearing? Show your appreciation and become a Supporter with a monthly contribution.Check Out More ShowsEpisode 21: Dallas Woodburn - Author of The Best Week That Never HappenedEpisode 20: Kristen Millares Young - Author of SubductionEpisode 17: Hala Alyan - Author of The Twenty-Ninth YearEpisode 16: Writing in the Time of COVID-19 with host Sara Gallagher and poem Perhaps Prayer by Kristy MilliganSupport the show (https://fiercewomxnwriting.com/support)

For #NationalPoetryMonth, we are posting some poems read by our staff! The first poem is “On Kindness", from KINGDOM ANIMALIA by Aracelis Girmay, read by Denice. Copyright © 2011 by Aracelis Girmay.

Recorded by Aracelis Girmay for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on April 2, 2020. www.poets.org

Jon Sands is a poet based in Brooklyn, NY. I first became acquainted with Jon as one of the co-hosts of the podcast The Poetry Gods, one of my all-time favorites, and the poems in his latest collection, It’s Not Magic, are both exuberant and profound. In our conversation we talked about being braver on the page, about balancing self-love and accountability, and about writing toward growth. Then in the second segment we talked about how having kids changes how you see other people, and we talked about the work of Aracelis Girmay and how she uses personification in her poems. (Conversation recorded February 18, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RadioPublic | Stitcher | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Donate via PayPal Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Jon Sands Jon Sands - It’s Not Magic The Poetry Gods Aziza Barnes José Olivarez Keep the Channel Open - Episode 33: José Olivarez Jon Sands - The New Clean Rico Frederick Barely South Review - “Living Brave, Writing Braver: an Interview with Jon Sands” Jon Sands - “Moons Over My Hammy” Geoff Kagan Trenchard Carlos Andrés Gómez Aracelis Girmay Aracelis Girmay - Kingdom Animalia Aracelis Girmay - The Black Maria Planner vs. Pantser Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Frank Ocean - Blonde Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Callie Wright Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Good ppl, good ppl—last week we chopped it up with THEE Dr. Bettina Judd on so many goodness. This week, she brought in Aracelis Girmay's "The Black Maria" for us to melt our hearts over.  Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer whose research focus is on Black women's creative production and our use of visual art, literature, and music to develop feminist thought. Her current book manuscript argues that Black women's creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls “feelin.” She is currently Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She has received fellowships from the Five Colleges, The Vermont Studio Center and the University of Maryland. Her poems and essays have appeared in Torch, Mythium, Meridians and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of poems titled patient. which tackles the history of medical experimentation on and display of Black women won the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize and was released in November of 2014. As a performer she has been invited to perform for audiences within the United States and internationally. Aracelis Girmay is the author of three collections of poetry: the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016); Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and the GLCA New Writers Award, and a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007). The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Civitella Ranieri, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Girmay is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry. She teaches in Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and Drew University's low-residency MFA program in poetry.

This week our guest is poet Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, author of Wild Invocations.In this episode, we discuss her writing process, andHow poems build up in the body Creating a container for your workThe magic of revisionAnd more!If you’re a new listener to Fierce Womxn Writing, I would love to hear from you. Please visit my Contact Page and tell me about your writing challenges.Follow this WriterVisit Ysabel Y. Gonzalez’s WebsiteFollow the PodcastVisit the Website for more info on the podcastFollow the HostSlide into Sara Gallagher’s DM’s on InstagramFollow our PartnersVisit QuillsEdge Press (dedicated to the poetry of womxn over 40) and submit for their next anthologyBecome an AdvertiserUse my Contact Page or hit me up on InstaThis Week’s Writing PromptEach week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.This week’s writing prompt is: Think about praise and celebrating, and how we celebrate our body in particular. Write an ode or a praise poem to a body part. Explore Womxn AuthorsIn this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:Aracelis Girmay, author of Kingdom AnamaliaAda Limón, author of The CarryingAudre Lorde, Author of Sister OutsiderGloria E. Anzaldúa, Author of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New MestizaEnsure the Podcast ContinuesLove what you’re hearing? Show your appreciation and become a Supporter with a monthly contribution.Check Out More ShowsEpisode 11: T. Susan Chang - Author of Tarot CorrespondencesEpisode 10: Dr. Chloe Schwenke - Author of SELF-ish: A Transgender AwakeningEpisode 9: Tara Lynn Masih - Author of My Real Name is HannaEpisode 8: Elizabeth Bell - Author of The Lazare Family SagaEpisode 7: Dr. Rosenna Bakari - Author of Too Much Love is Not EnoughSupport the show (https://fiercewomxnwriting.com/support)

This week I talk about Aracelis Girmay, Shirley Jackson, turning 27 and FOOD with my Taurus bae and chef pal Eric Pilgram --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We're here! Last week, we were chatting it up with Nabila Lovelace about the South, the Conversation Literary Festival, and, of course, violence and intimacy. This week, Nabila brought in "On Kindness" by Aracelis Girmay. Hear her read it and be healed.   NABILA LOVELACE is a born and raised Queens native, as well as a first generation American. In her debut collection, Sons of Achilles, Nabila attempts to examine the liminal space between violence and intimacy. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Narrative Northeast, Washington Square Review, Day One, ESPNW, & Vinyl. She is co-founder of The Conversation Literary Festival.     ARACELIS GIRMAY is the author of three collections of poetry: the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016); Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and the GLCA New Writers Award, and a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007). The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Civitella Ranieri, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Girmay is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry. She teaches in Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and Drew University's low-residency MFA program in poetry.    

Episode 24 of Brown 'n Out, a discussion with Noa Coffey-Moore Noa Coffey-Moore is a Black Queer TransNonbinary Femme*. They are a writer, comunity educator, & multimedia artist, working for black femme liberation & well-being. Noa has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Justice Education, Creative Writing & Theater from Hampshire College. Their college theater advisors were Mei Ann Teo and Djola Branner. They studied poetry with John Murrillo, Aracelis Girmay, & Michael Dumanis. The third part of their thesis was creating social justice curriculum for youth. They've worked with both Farm & Widlerness Camps & Camp Outright doing this work. To book them at your school for the Spring, visit https://www.blackfemmesurvival.org/book/

On the fifth episode of "From the Catbird Seat," Rob Casper goes behind the scenes with Ghanaian poet and editor Kwame Dawes about the February 2017 "Conversations with African Poets and Writers: African Poetry Book Fund Spotlight" event at the Library of Congress. Dawes discussess the formation of the African Poetry Book Fund, an organization that promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts of Africa, and then we'll listen to event clips featuring African Book Fund editorial board members Chris Abani, Matthew Shenoda, and Aracelis Girmay; and poets Chekube O. Danladi, Safia Elhillo, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, and Hope Wabuke.

Rachel Zucker speaks with poet Aracelis Girmay about creating new forms and structures, employing fragments, the time it takes to get to urgent questions, research, patience, appreciating snails with Kamau Brathwaite, menarche, estrangement, pregnancy, naming, our fathers and families, worrying about doing harm in poems, effort, June Jordan, Ross Gay, writing about family, history, avoiding and countering the language of violence and brutality, writing long poems and find ways to express anger and rage without adopting the language of tyranny and oppression.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Aracelis Girmay about poetry, wolves, and more. Check out the episode and let us know what you think. As always you can reach us at emailthepoetrygods@gmail.com. ARACELIS GIRMAY BIO: Born and raised in Santa Ana, California, poet Aracelis Girmay earned a BA at Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies. In her 2011 online chat interview with the Rumpus Poetry Book Club, Girmay discussed innovative and hybrid poetric forms, stating, “I wonder what new explorations of form might have to do with documenting the new and old ways of thinking about power. Of how we've been taught to think by our families, institutions, television, computer culture, etc. [….] Perhaps the so-called hybrid poems are about dislocating or splintering the central lens.” Her poetry collections include Teeth (2007), Kingdom Animalia (2011), and The Black Maria (2016), named a “Top Poetry Pick” by Publisher's Weekly, O Magazine, and Library Journal. She is also the author of the collage-based picture book changing, changing (2005). In 2011 Girmay was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 2015 she received a Whiting Award for Poetry. A Cave Canem Fellow and an Acentos board member, she led youth and community writing workshops. She currently teaches at Hampshire College. She lives in New York City. Follow Aracelis Girmay on Twitter : @aracelisxgirmay Follow The Poetry Gods on all social media: @_joseolivarez, @azizabarnes, @iamjonsands, @thepoetrygods & CHECK OUR WEBSITE: thepoetrygods.com/ (much thanks to José Ortiz for designing the website! shouts to Jess X Snow for making our logo)

Espada, a Pulitzer Prize finalist called "the Latino poet of his generation" by the New York Times, has published over fifteen books of poetry, translation, and essays. Girmay is the author of two collections of poetry, for which she has won awards including the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and the NEA Literature Fellowship, and teaches poetry at Hampshire College. Following the readings, Marjorie Agosín, professor of Spanish at Wellesley College and winner of the Latino Literature Prize for Poetry, led a discussion on bilingual literature and the social value of poetry. Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities featured readings from Martín Espada and Aracelis Girmay as part of the Distinguished Writers Series in October 2011.