Sunday, January 24, 2021 - Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. Her hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton), was published in 2020.

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Other poetry collections by Griffiths include Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books, 2015), The Requited Distance (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011), Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011), and Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books, 2010).

Also a visual artist, Griffiths is the creator of Poets on Poetry (P.O.P), an intimate series of interviews, which gathers more than fifty contemporary poets together in conversation to discuss poetry in relation to individual human experience and culture.

Griffiths is a recipient of fellowships including Cave Canem, Kimbilio, Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her forthcoming debut novel, Promise, will be published by Random House. Griffiths will be the guest editor for Poem-a-Day in February 2021, and she lives in New York City.

The way a special
music clung to Cecil Taylor,
followed the radical swing &
swag of his voice. Do you want
to have the Heart of Darkness
together, he said. That looks
sweet enough. I remembered
later when we stood on the sidewalk,
sugar & poetry in us. Heat
coming off the summer night in the city
always made me feel I could
never leave New York. He kissed
my cheeks. Said he had been fooled.
I didn’t think they made women
like you anymore.