Alysia harris poems
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- Renowned internationally as a spoken word artist, Alysia has had a professional career as a performance artist and speaker since 2010.
- Alysia Nicole Harris is an American poet based out of Atlanta.
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Alysia Nicole Harris
American poet based out of Atlanta
Alysia Nicole Harris is an American poet based out of Atlanta. She is a Cave Canem fellow, was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize in 2014 and 2015.[1] She has performed spoken word poetry in Germany, Canada, Slovakia, South Africa, and the UK, and at the United Nations.[1]
Poetry
Harris's poem "Crow's Sugar" was featured in the 2015 edition of Best New Poets.[2] She was featured in the anthology The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop,[3][4] which the Huffington Post describes as a “‘mixtape’ spanning the time from Hip Hop's birth to its explosion.”[5] She is the author of How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars.[6] Her work has appeared in Indiana Review,[7]Solstice Literary Magazine,[8] and Vinyl Poetry.[9]
Harris is a founding member of the performance poetry collective The Strivers Row.[1]
Other work
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Biography
Alicia Harris is in her final year of rabbinic studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, OH. She is a trained community organizer and involved in criminal justice reform work.
Alicia grew up in Toledo, OH, where she attended Temple Congregation Shomer Emunim.
She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh, where she graduated cum laude in Political Science and Religious Studies. She served as a student leader at the Pittsburgh Hillel, was a member of Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed service fraternity, and was very politically active on campus. After graduation and before HUC-JIR, she worked for two years at Temple Sinai of Pittsburgh as the executive assistant to the Senior Rabbi.
Alicia was the rabbinic fellow at the Valley Temple for three years; teaching religious school, leading and organizing the Friday Night Live band, expanding the family education curriculum, and developing a social justice program. She was also the rabbinic fellow at Cedar Village, a long-term care facility
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Bio
Alysia has dedicated her life to studying words in their spiritual, social, linguistic and creative capacities. Renowned internationally as a spoken word artist, Alysia has had a professional career as a performance artist and speaker since 2010, amassing over nine million views on YouTube. The author of the prize-winning chapbook How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars (2016) received her MFA in poetry from New York University in 2014 and her PhD in linguistics from Yale University in 2019. Her dissertation focused on the discourse-oriented uses of the preverbal particles ‘be’ and ‘done’ in African-American English and developed a novel compositional analysis of their meaning and distribution. As an art journalist and the founding Arts and Soul Editor for Scalawag Magazine, Alysia has supported artists and writers elucidating spiritual and political matters through their creative practices.
Alysia has written, performed, and taught workshops in twelve countries for organizations including but not limited to: U.S. Mission to Ukraine, U.S.
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