title: Aricka Foreman
text: # 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
  