LECTURES & LITERATURE

    A Poetry Reading by Aracelis Girmay

    A Poetry Reading by Aracelis Girmay

    Presented by University of Pennsylvania - Kelly Writers House at University of Pennsylvania - Kelly Writers House

    November 5, 2012


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    Aracelis Girmay's debut poetry collection, Teeth, was published by Curbstone Press and was awarded the GLCA New Writers Award. Her poems have been published in Black Renaissance Noir, Gulf Coast, A Public Space, and Callaloo, among other journals. A Cave Canem Fellow, she has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and the Watson Foundation. She is this year's recipient of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and was recently awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Girmay is an Acentos Foundation board member and a contributing editor for The Massachusetts Review. She received her MFA from NYU in 2003 and is now on the faculty of both Drew University's Poetry MFA program and Hampshire College's School of Interdisciplinary Arts. Girmay grew up in Santa Ana, California and currently lives in New York, New York.


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      • Venue Info

        University of Pennsylvania - Kelly Writers House

        3805 Locust Walk
        Philadelphia, PA 19104

        Full map and directions

      • Admission Info

        Tickets:

        FREE!

        Info Phone: 215-573-9748

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        November 5, 2012

        Times:

        6 pm

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