# Aracelis Girmay
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Actualizado:
aracelis girmay (born December 10, 1977) is an American poet.
== Early life ==
aracelis girmay is of Eritrean, African American, and Puerto Rican heritage and attended Connecticut College, then earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University.
== Career ==
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.
1253: On the Death of a Young Lady Five Years of Age, a reinscription by Aracelis Girmay
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 Mo…
074 - The Appeal of Dark Picture Books
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.
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163. Losing Mothers and Finding Them Again Through Memoir featuring Rebe Huntman
Rebe Huntman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about who are we as women and what holds us together as a culture, following questions to their conclusions and changing in the process, running away from grief, magical thinking, reinventing ourselves, Afro-Cuban traditions and relationships…
Ross Gay
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…
Rachel Mennies (Of the Sapphic Epistolary Tradition, Braiding Your Work With Others', and Having It Out With Melancholy)
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Practice Elegy" at Copper Nickel
Purchase: The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021)
Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Wolf (BOA Editions, forthcoming fall 2027); The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions…
Hanif Abdurraqib vs. Obsession
On today’s episode of VS, Ajanae and Brittany interview Hanif Abdurraqib. Listen in as they discuss burned cd’s, the cost of being a collector, living archives, new projects, and obsession as an origin story.
Until Next Time:
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Green of All Heads by Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay reads “after Sin título (Sikán con chivo), Belkis Ayón” from her poetry collection Green of All Heads, published by BOA Editions in September 2025.
The Moment We Knew: Faith, Family, and a Collective Farewell (Grief)
In this episode of Poetry in Layers, I open up about grief through the poem “the moment we knew.”This piece is about my grandmother, the woman who held my family together with cornbread, prayer, and a presence so steady we only understood its weight once she was gone.
I share how food became faith,…
Encore - Ross Gay
This is an encore of a program originally broadcast in May of 2025. 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 gar…
Aracelis Girmay (& an announcement)
In the penultimate episode of the series, Jordan sits down to talk with poet Aracelis Girmay about the way that reading --especially discovering the works of Toni Morrison as a teenager-- changed her life.
Aracelis Girmay is a poet who makes works across genres. She is the author of the poetry col…
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