“Because in the rectangle of a page I am nourished and I dream and I plunge and I die. Because there, too, I am reborn. We are reborn.” Award-winning poet and professor Aracelis Girmay opened her ...

In this episode, an award-winning poet discusses editing a book of poems by an award-winning poet—“How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton”, edited by Aracelis Girmay, is a literary ...

Smith College will present a reading by poet Aracelis Girmay at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in Neilson Library Browsing Room. The event, which will also include a short presentation by winners of this ...

Described as “the real deal” by the Co-editor of Latino Boom, Aracelis Girmay is a powerful, inventive poet, writer, and educator who is not afraid to take on any subject, including rape and genocide, ...

PLATTSBURGH -- Aracelis Girmay's writing life began at age 4 when she sat at a white table, adorned with a little blue ox, in her grandmother's back garden. Her grandmother Barbara, called "Katie," ...

The writer Ross Gay has become synonymous with joy. In his essays and poetry, Gay asks his readers to find delight and gratitude in the most difficult of circumstances and, in the process, he brings ...

The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature fiction writer Don Waters and poet Aracelis Girmay on Monday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.

The Language Arts Live series of literary readings at Bates presents poet Aracelis Girmay at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24, in Chase Hall’s Skelton Lounge, 56 Campus Ave. The reading is open to the ...

Bill Moyers gets in on the joke with two impersonators who use satire to make serious points about media consolidation, journalism, business ethics, and separating fact from fiction in a world of spin ...

The life work of Clifton (1936–2010) forms an incandescent prayer for self-determination in this vital selected volume featuring 10 previously uncollected poems. Keenly edited and with a foreword by ...