Arlene Keizer, an Afro-Caribbean American poet and scholar, writes about the literature, lived experience, theory, and visual culture of the African Diaspora. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, she later earned an MA in English and Creative Writing (Poetry) at Stanford University and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery (Cornell UP), and her poems and articles have appeared in African American Review, American Literature, The Kenyon Review, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, PMLA, Poem-a-Day, TriQuarterly, and other venues. Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black, her collection of poems about the African American painter Beauford Delaney, won the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and was published in 2023 by the Kent State University Press. She is a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Links:

Arlene Keizer  

Arlene Keizer’s page at Pratt Institute 

Interview with Arlene Keizer at Speaking of Marvels 

“Canopy” in Poem-A-Day 

Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black at Kent State University Press 

 Beauford Delaney 

 Bio and artwork at Knoxville Museum of Art 

 Bio and Artwork at the Smithsonian  

 Bio and artwork at Studio Museum in Harlem 

 Artwork at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 

 “Beauford Delaney in Knoxville” at Knoxville History Project 

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