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