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American poet, essayist and digital curator

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

Personal life

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

Career

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

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)
  • Callaloo
  • Millay Colony

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)
  • "Except, All of Us" with Mimi Wong (2016)
  • “I Slay: 11 Women Artists & Writers To Get Us Into Formation” (2016)
  • “Courage in the Chasm" (2016)
  • "Marginalized and Mythological: Shanequa Gay's Disruption of the Pastoral Landscape" (2018)

As editor

  • Brandon Tauzsik, Nate Marshall, Quincy T. Mills's "Tapered Throne/Bald Fade" (2015)
  • E. Jane's “The Coded Body” (2015)
  • Angela Davis Fegan's “Lavender Menace: Feminist Fury and Visibility in Public Space” (2015)
  • Kaitlyn Greenidge and Laylah Ali's “Four Tales for Dry Land” (2016)
  • Krista Franklin's “History, As Written By The Victors” (2016)

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)
  • "In Defense of Fast Girls Who Just Want to Dance" in Catapult (2018)

Select poems

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

External links

References

  1. ^ "About | Contact". Aricka Foreman. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  2. Gentes, Brian (2021-06-02). "2021 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  3. "Firecracker Awards Winners Archive". Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  4. Madera, John (2021-02-25). "Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry!". BIG OTHER. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  5. Madera, John (2021-03-02). "Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 Big Other Readers' Choice Award!". BIG OTHER. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  6. "Blog Archive » Foreman , Aricka". Cave Canem. Archived from the original on 2018-09-09. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  7. "Millay Colony Residents Read". Cave Canem. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  8. Foreman, Aricka (2015-11-25). "Queer As Verb". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  9. Foreman, Aricka; Wong, Mimi (2016-02-02). "Except, All Of Us". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  10. Foreman, Aricka (2016-03-29). "I Slay: 11 Women Artists & Writers To Get Us Into Formation". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  11. Foreman, Aricka (2016-01-19). "Courage in the Chasm". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  12. Gay, Shanequa (2018-02-02). "Marginalized and Mythological". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  13. Brandon Tauszik (2015-08-18). "Tapered Throne/Bald Fade". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  14. Jane, E. (2015-07-21). "The Coded Body". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  15. Fegan, Angela Davis (2015-10-27). "Lavender Menace". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  16. Greenidge, Kaitlyn (2016-03-01). "Four Tales for Dry Land". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  17. Franklin, Krista (2016-04-08). "History, As Written by the Victors". The Offing. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  18. Foreman, Aricka (2016-08-17). "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". Vinyl Poetry and Prose. Archived from the original on 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  19. Foreman, Aricka (2018-05-25). "In Defense of Fast Girls Who Just Want to Dance". Catapult. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  20. Foreman, Aricka (May 2011). "Dig". Vinyl Poetry and Prose. 3: 32.
  21. Foreman, Aricka (May 2011). "Like the Rain, Smell It Coming". Vinyl Poetry and Prose. 3: 31.
  22. Foreman, Aricka (May 2011). "Made Mostly of Water". Vinyl Poetry and Prose. 3: 33. Archived from the original on 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  23. ^ "Poetry by Arika Foreman". The James Franco Review (5). 2015-11-30. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  24. Foreman, Aricka (September 2015). "go here nothing to see home". Thrush Poetry Journal. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  25. Foreman, Aricka (2016-08-08). "When We Say We Want Tenderness We Haven't Found A Punishment We Can Live With". The Collagist. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  26. Foreman, Aricka (2016-08-08). "Still Life of Acme in Spring". The Collagist. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  27. Foreman, Aricka (2016-09-28). "Field Study #1". The Shade Journal (1). Shade Literary Arts. Archived from the original on 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  28. Foreman, Aricka (January 20, 2017). "Poem: "When The Therapist Asks You To Recount, You Have To Say It"". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 2020-10-30. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  29. Gabbin, Joanne V.; Alleyne, Lauren K., eds. (2020). Furious flower : seeding the future of African American poetry. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-4154-4. OCLC 1104924376. Archived from the original on 2022-01-09. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  30. ^ "Salt Body Shimmer". verse.press. Archived from the original on 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  31. Foreman, Aricka (2020-11-20). "Polycystic Study of Intimacy". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  32. ^ Foreman, Aricka. "Two Poems". Pinwheel. Archived from the original on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  33. ^ Foreman, Aricka. "we live best/ in the spaces between two loves". ANMLY. 26. Archived from the original on 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
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