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Date(s) - March 20, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Detroit Mercy’s English Department welcomes poet Aracelis Girmay, who will read her work for the 2025 Triptych series on Thursday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Girmay is the author of the poetry collections the black maria (BOA, 2016), Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011) and Teeth (Curbstone, 2007). For this work she was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Connecticut Book Award. She has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Cave Canem Foundation, among others. Other recent work includes the chapbook and was a flower and the picture books What Do You Know? and Kamau and Zuzu Find A Way. Girmay is the editor of How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (BOA, 2020) and So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket Books, 2023). She is a professor of English at Stanford University.
Now in its third year, Triptych is a virtual reading series featuring award-winning poets in conversation with Detroit Mercy’s poet-in-residence, Stacy Gnall. Triptych events are held via Zoom on Thursdays from 6:30-8 p.m.
Triptych readings are free and open to the community. Please join us!
Register here!
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