# Aricka Foreman

Aricka Foreman is an American poet, essayist, and digital curator.

## Personal life

Foreman is from Detroit, Michigan but currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.

## Career

Aside from writing and curating art, Foreman serves on the board of directors for The Offing.

## Awards and honors
### Literary awards

Foreman's Salt Body Shimmer received the following accolades:
* Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry winner (2021)
* CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry finalist (2021)
* Big Other Book Award in Poetry finalist (2020)
* Big Other Reader's Choice Award finalist (2020)

### Fellowship

Foreman has received the following fellowships:
* Cave Canem Fellowship (2008, 2010, 2012, 2020)
* Callaloo
* Millay Colony

## Publications
### Books

* Dream with a Glass Chamber (YesYes Books, 2016)
* Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books, 2020)

### Digital curation
#### As artist

* “Queer as Verb: 7 Trans & Non-Binary Artists Doing the Work” (2015)
* "Except, All of Us" with Mimi Wong (2016)
* “I Slay: 11 Women Artists & Writers To Get Us Into Formation” (2016)
* “Courage in the Chasm" (2016)
* "Marginalized and Mythological: Shanequa Gay's Disruption of the Pastoral Landscape" (2018)

#### As editor

* Brandon Tauzsik, Nate Marshall, Quincy T. Mills's "Tapered Throne/Bald Fade" (2015)
* E. Jane's “The Coded Body” (2015)
* Angela Davis Fegan's “Lavender Menace: Feminist Fury and Visibility in Public Space” (2015)
* Kaitlyn Greenidge and Laylah Ali's “Four Tales for Dry Land” (2016)
* Krista Franklin's “History, As Written By The Victors” (2016)

### Essays

* "Why Spotlight Minority Mental Health?" in The Offering (2015)
* "Let Me Get Carefree Unless It Means I Live In This Political Body And Everything Is Always On Fire Or How I Went To A Santigold Concert To Get Carefree Anyway" on Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2016)
* "In Defense of Fast Girls Who Just Want to Dance" in Catapult (2018)

### Select poems

* "Dig" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2011)
* "Like the Rain, Smell It Coming" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2011)
* "Made Mostly of Water" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose (2011)
* "Monologues in Bars By White People With Good Intentions" in The James Franco Review (2015)
* "I Got Mad Love" in The James Franco Review (2015)
* "Consent Is A Labyrinth of Yes" in The James Franco Review (2015)
* "go here nothing to see home" in Thrush Poetry Journal (2015)
* "When We Say We Want Tenderness We Haven't Found A Punishment We Can Live With" in The Collagist (2016)
* "Still Life of Acme in Spring" in The Collagist (2016)
* "Field Study #1" in The Shade Journal (2016)
* “When The Therapist Asks You To Recount, You Have to Say It” on Buzzfeed (2017) and in Furious flower: seeding the future of African American poetry (2020)
* "Menarche Malarkey the Beginning the End," published in Verse (2020)
* "Does It Matter Who Is Your Redeemer," published in Verse (2020)
* "Mary Woodson Sets the Grits Straight," published in Verse (2020)
* "Breakbeat Aubade with Anemones and Lucky Fish," published in Verse (2020)
* “Polycystic Study of Intimacy” on Academy of American Poets' poets.org (2020)
* “Republic Americana” in Pinwheel Journal
* “Master of Your Make-Believe” in Pinwheel Journal
* "we live best/ in the spaces between two loves" in Anomaly
* "Breakbeat Aubade with Anemones and Lucky Fish" in Anomaly