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Ariana Benson
Bio
Ariana Benson is an award-winning Southern Black ecopoet. Her poems tug on threads of embodied Blackness, environment and ecology, how the natural world is valued in certain contexts while devalued in others, and the role that “beauty” as worth plays in our lived experiences.
Photo from: Poetry Foundation - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ariana-benson
Reading Materials
Poems:
Anti-Elegy for the Trees by Ariana Benson
Black Pastoral: Velvet Season by Ariana Benson
Dear Moses Grandy...Love, the Great Dismal Swamp by Ariana Benson

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