Join poet and Stanford Knight Family Professor of Creative Writing, Aracelis Girmay, for a reading and discussion of her latest poetry collection, GREEN OF ALL HEADS (BOA, 2025). Longlisted for the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards, GREEN OF ALL HEADS examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children. This vital work grapples with what it means to attend to life in the context of corporate industries of birth and death. Professor Girmay is also author of the black maria (BOA, 2016), Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011), and Teeth (Curbstone, 2007). For her work she was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2018. Her books have also been named finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cave Canem Foundation, among other foundations. Before joining Stanford's faculty, Professor Girmay has taught in many programs, including Drew University's low-residency program, Columbia University's MFA program, Sarah Lawrence's MFA program, and she served as the writer in residence and assistant chairperson at Pratt Institute (Writing Program)