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Aracelis Girmay on Writing Your Story

826NYC quaranTEEN voices: Finding Focus in Your Work with Aracelis Girmay

“I wanted to hear the histories that were not taught to me in books, I wanted to know what I didn’t know.” In this 826NYC video, Aracelis Girmay speaks about how reading and hearing her family’s stories inspired her to become a poet. A Q&A with Girmay on becoming the first editor-at-large of BOA Editions’ line of poetry books written by women of color appears in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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March/April 2021

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