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Aracelis Girmay - excerpt from "The Black Maria"

“Maybe he will be the boy who studies stars. / Maybe he will be (say it) / the boy on the coroner's table / splayed & spangled / by an officer's lead as if he, too, weren't made / of a trillion glorious cells & sentences. Trying to last.” Aracelis Girmay reads an excerpt from her new collection, The Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016), at the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.

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BOA Editions
Split This Rock Poetry Festival
2016
Aracelis Girmay
The Black Maria
American Poets Continuum Series
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Poems of Provocation & Witness

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