Английская Википедия:Angel Nafis
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Angel Nafis (born December 1988)[1] is an American poet and spoken word artist. She is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press / New School Poetics, 2012).[2] She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Early life
Nafis grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan,[3] where she attended Huron High School.[4] She struggled through school, but graduated in 2006.[5][4] She was on the Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam Team in 2005 and 2006.[4]
She was raised Muslim.[6] Her mother died when she was young, so she was raised by her father.[5] Her father's family was from New York and Georgia.[7] Her mother's family was from Chicago and Mississippi.[7]
Education
Nafis earned her BA at Hunter College, and is an MFA candidate in poetry at Warren Wilson College.[2][8]
Career
Nafis is a Cave Canem fellow, the recipient of a Millay Colony residency, and the founder and curator of the Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon's readings and writing workshops.[2][9]
With poet Morgan Parker, she runs The Other Black Girl Collective, a Black feminist poetry duo that tours internationally.[2][8]
Her work has appeared in outlets including the BreakBeat Poets Anthology, Buzzfeed Reader, the Rumpus, Poetry, FOUND Magazine’s Requiem for a Paper Bag, Decibels, The Rattling Wall, Union Station Magazine, The Bear River Review, MUZZLE Magazine, Prelude Mag, Sixth Finch, and Mosaic Magazine.[8][10][11][12][13]
Personal life
Nafis lives in Brooklyn[14] with artist, writer, and musician Shira Erlichman, with whom she is in a relationship.[2][15] Together, they toured for the "Odes for You" tour.[16][17][18][19][20]
In June 2020, Nafis and hundreds of other poets signed an open letter to the Poetry Foundation asking for the immediate resignation of both president Henry Bienen and board of trustees chair Willard Bunn III, as well as other demands relating to the foundation's response to the murder of George Floyd.[21]
Awards and honors
- Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation (2016)[2][22]
- NEA Creative Writing fellowship[8]
Bibliography
Books
- BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012).[2]
Selected list of published poems
| Title | Year | Publication/anthology | Reprinted/collected |
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| "Love on Flatbush Avenue" | 2018 | Black Girl Magic (The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2), Haymarket Books, 1st ed. 119. | |
| "Ghazal for Becoming Your Own Country" | 2016 | Poetry Foundation[23] | Black Girl Magic (The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2), Haymarket Books, 1st ed. 194. |
| "When I Realize I’m Wearing My Girlfriend’s Ex-Girlfriend’s Panties" | brooklynpoets.org[8] | ||
| "Woo Woo Roll Deep" | 2017 | BuzzFeed News[24] | |
| "Angel Nafis" | Poetry Foundation[25] | ||
| "Omen to Get Your Ass Up" | 2017 | them.us[26] | |
| "Ode to Shea Butter" | Prelude Mag[27] | ||
| "Ode to Lois" | Prelude Mag[12] | ||
| "Ode to Voicemail" | 2015 | Sixth Finch[28] | |
| "Why R&B First Thing In The Morning, Why R&B Above All" | 2015 | The Rumpus[29] | |
| "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean" | Muzzle Magazine[30] | Performed at the Bowery Poetry Club in 2011 Шаблон:Webarchive | |
| "King of Kreations" | 2018 | poetry.org[31] | |
| "Angel's Heart Reasons with Her Dad" | Muzzle Magazine[32] | ||
| "I Know I’m Pretty Cuz The Boys Tell Me So" | 2007 | The Bear River Review[33] | |
| "Directions to Finding You" | 2009 | Requiem For a Paper Bag Anthology[33] | |
| "Tarbaby Fly" | 2012 | The Rattling Wall[33] | |
| "Open" | 2012 | The Rattling Wall[33] | |
| "Ghazal for My Sister" | 2013 | Mosaic Magazine[33] | The BreakBeat Poets Anthology (Haymarket Books, 2015)[33] |
| "Betty Boop" | 2013 | Mosaic Magazine[33] | |
| "Legend" | 2015 | The BreakBeat Poets Anthology (Haymarket Books, 2015)[33] | |
| "Gravity" | 2015 | The BreakBeat Poets Anthology (Haymarket Books, 2015)[33] | |
| "Conspiracy" | 2015 | The BreakBeat Poets Anthology (Haymarket Books, 2015)[33] |
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