Her poems and essays have appeared in Torch, Mythium, Meridians and other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the Five Colleges, The Vermont Studio Center and the University of Maryland. 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. This week, she brought in Aracelis Girmay's "The Black Maria" for us to melt our hearts over.īettina 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. Originally from Santa Ana, California, she splits her time between New York and Amherst, Massachusetts.Good ppl, good ppl-last week we chopped it up with THEE Dr. She currently teaches at Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and in Drew University's low residency MFA program.
The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award, she has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA.
The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry, Girmay's newest collection elegizes and celebrates life, while wrestling with the humanistic notion of seeing beyond: seeing violence, seeing grace, and seeing each other better.Īracelis Girmay is the author of two poetry collections, Teeth and Kingdom Animalia, which won the Isabella Gardner Award and was a finalist for the NBCC Award. Central to this project is a desire to recognize the lives of Eritrean refugees who have been made invisible by years of immigration crisis, refugee status, exile, and resulting statelessness.
Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas by early astronomers, The Black Maria investigates African diasporic histories, the consequences of racism within American culture, and the question of human identity.
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