{"id":20006,"date":"2025-03-11T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=20006"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:58:00","slug":"triptych-reading-series-features-poet-aracelis-girmay-on-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2025\/03\/11\/triptych-reading-series-features-poet-aracelis-girmay-on-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Triptych reading series features poet Aracelis Girmay on March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Mercy’s English Department<\/a> welcomes poet Aracelis Girmay, who will read her work for the 2025 Triptych series on Thursday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong> via Zoom.<\/p>\n

Girmay, a professor of English at Stanford University, is the author of the poetry collections the black maria<\/em>, Kingdom Animalia<\/em>\u00a0and Teeth<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n

Other recent work includes the chapbook and was a flower<\/em>\u00a0and the picture books What Do You Know?<\/em> and Kamau and Zuzu Find A Way<\/em>. Girmay is the editor of How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton<\/em>\u00a0and So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Triptych is a virtual reading series featuring award-winning poets in conversation with Detroit Mercy\u2019s poet-in-residence, Stacy Gnall<\/a>. Triptych events are held via Zoom on Thursdays from 6:30-8 p.m. and are free and open to the community!<\/p>\n

Register here!<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

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