Works by Kamilah Aisha Moon
Starshine and Clay by Call Number: 821.914 M818st 2017 - Circulating (3rd Floor)Publication Date: 2017We are making our lives up "here on this bridge / between starshine and clay" (Lucille Clifton). Addressing tough circumstances tenderly, this book is about life--what we inherit, what we create, what shapes us, what's possible.
She Has a Name by Call Number: 821.914 M818s 2013 - Circulating (3rd Floor)Publication Date: 2013With unrelenting yet tender honesty, She Has a Name tells the story of a young woman with autism from multiple points of view. The speakers in these poems--sisters, mother, father, teacher--seek to answer questions science can't yet answer, seek to protect the young woman, and seek to understand what autism means to their own lives as well.
The Ringing Ear by Call Number: 821.9208 R581 2007 - Circulating (3rd Floor)Publication Date: 2007"Dressing Down" and "Five" by Kamilah Aisha Moon
Black Bone by Call Number: 821.914 B624 2017 - Circulating (3rd Floor)Publication Date: 2018"Initiation" by Kamilah Aisha Moon
Biography
KAMILAH AISHA MOON is a recipient of fellowships to the Cave Canem Foundation, the Prague Summer Writing Institute, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Vermont Studio Center, Moon’s work has been featured in several journals and anthologies, including Harvard Review, jubilat, Poem-A-Day for the Academy of American Poets, Oxford American, Lumina, Callaloo, Essence, Gathering Ground. A Pushcart Prize winner, she was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Audre Lorde Award from the Publishing Triangle. She has taught English and Creative Writing for several colleges and organizations. Moon holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. A native of Nashville, TN, she currently lives in Brooklyn, NY
source:
Spriggs, Bianca Lynne, and Jeremy Paden, editors. “Biographies.” Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2017, pp. 151–156.
