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Aricka Foreman

American poet, essayist and digital curator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Aricka Foreman is an American poet, essayist, and digital curator.[1]

Personal life

Foreman is from Detroit, Michigan but currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.[1]

Career

Aside from writing and curating art, Foreman serves on the board of directors for The Offing.[1]

Awards and honors

Literary awards

Foreman's Salt Body Shimmer received the following accolades:

Fellowship

Foreman has received the following fellowships:

  • Cave Canem Fellowship (2008, 2010, 2012, 2020)[6]
  • Callaloo[1]
  • Millay Colony[7]

Publications

Books

  • Dream with a Glass Chamber (YesYes Books, 2016)
  • Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books, 2020)

Digital curation

As artist

  • “Queer as Verb: 7 Trans & Non-Binary Artists Doing the Work” (2015)[8]
  • "Except, All of Us" with Mimi Wong (2016)[9]
  • “I Slay: 11 Women Artists & Writers To Get Us Into Formation” (2016)[10]
  • “Courage in the Chasm" (2016)[11]
  • "Marginalized and Mythological: Shanequa Gay's Disruption of the Pastoral Landscape" (2018)[12]

As editor

Essays

  • "Why Spotlight Minority Mental Health?" in The Offering (2015)
  • "Let Me Get Carefree Unless It Means I Live In This Political Body And Everything Is Always On Fire Or How I Went To A Santigold Concert To Get Carefree Anyway" on Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2016)[18]
  • "In Defense of Fast Girls Who Just Want to Dance" in Catapult (2018)[19]

Select poems

  • "Dig" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2011)[20]
  • "Like the Rain, Smell It Coming" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2011)[21]
  • "Made Mostly of Water" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2011)[22]
  • "Monologues in Bars By White People With Good Intentions" in The James Franco Review (2015)[23]
  • "I Got Mad Love" in The James Franco Review (2015)[23]
  • "Consent Is A Labyrinth of Yes" in The James Franco Review (2015)[23]
  • "go here nothing to see home" in Thrush Poetry Journal (2015)[24]
  • "When We Say We Want Tenderness We Haven't Found A Punishment We Can Live With" in The Collagist (2016)[25]
  • "Still Life of Acme in Spring" in The Collagist (2016)[26]
  • "Field Study #1" in The Shade Journal (2016)[27]
  • “When The Therapist Asks You To Recount, You Have to Say It” on Buzzfeed (2017)[28] and in Furious flower: seeding the future of African American poetry (2020)[29]
  • "Menarche Malarkey the Beginning the End," published in Verse (2020)[30]
  • "Does It Matter Who Is Your Redeemer," published in Verse (2020)[30]
  • "Mary Woodson Sets the Grits Straight," published in Verse (2020)[30]
  • "Breakbeat Aubade with Anemones and Lucky Fish," published in Verse (2020)[30]
  • “Polycystic Study of Intimacy” on Academy of American Poets' poets.org (2020)[31]
  • “Republic Americana” in Pinwheel Journal[32]
  • “Master of Your Make-Believe” in Pinwheel Journal[32]
  • "we live best/ in the spaces between two loves" in Anomaly[33]
  • "Breakbeat Aubade with Anemones and Lucky Fish" in Anomaly[33]
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