Aracelis Girmay
| Aracelis Girmay | |
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| Born | December 10, 1977 |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | African American |
| Education | Connecticut College |
Aracelis Girmay (born December 10, 1977) is an American poet.
Aracelis Girmay attended Connecticut College, then earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University.
Girmay's first collection was Teeth (2007), for which she won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.
In 2011, Girmay published Kingdom Animalia, for which she was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. At The Rumpus, Camille T. Dungy said, "Girmay writes of ways we can be brought together, and ways the world separates us."Junot Diaz has said his favorite poem is Kingdom Animalia's titular poem, writing in The New York Times:
I remember rereading these lines shortly after I lost my sister:
The Black Maria (2011) was Girmay's third collection. 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."The Boston Globe named it one of the best books of 2016.
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