Carmen Giménez Explained

Carmen Giménez (born February 20, 1971), formerly known as Carmen Giménez Smith, is an American poet, writer, and editor.

Life

Giménez earned a Bachelor of Arts from San Jose State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She was recently a professor in English at Virginia Tech^[1] and, prior to that, New Mexico State University.^[2] She teaches in Bennington College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing.^[3]

Giménez founded the "historically brown and queer" Noemi Press in 2002,^[4] and she is a founding fellow and co-director of CantoMundo.^[5] In the fall of 2017, Giménez became editor of The Nation Poetry Section, alongside Stephanie Burt.^[6] In summer of 2022, Giménez became the Executive Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press.^[7]

In 2009, Giménez was named to Poetry Society of America's biennial New American Poets Series.^[8] In 2011, she was named a Howard Foundation Fellow in Creative Nonfiction;^[9] her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, received an American Book Award;^[10] and her third collection of poems, Goodbye, Flicker, was awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry.^[11] Milk and Filth was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.^[12] Her 2019 poetry collection Be Recorder was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry,^[13] the PEN/Open Book Award,^[14] the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry,^[15] and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.^[16]

Awards

• 2009 Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series
• 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry
• 2011 American Book Award
• 2011–2012 Howard Foundation Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction
• 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) shortlist for Milk and Filth^{[17] [18]}
• 2019 National Book Award for Poetry finalist for Be Recorder^[19]
• 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship^[20]

Books

Poetry collections

• Be Recorder (Minneapolis, Graywolf Press, 2019).
• Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 17 (City Lights, 2018)
• Milk and Filth (Tucson, The University of Arizona Press, 2013).
• Goodbye, Flicker (Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2012).
• The City She Was (Ft. Collins, Center for Literary Publishing, 2011).
• Odalisque in Pieces (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2009).

Memoir

• Bring Down the Little Birds (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2010).

Edited anthologies

• Angels of the Americlypse: an anthology of new Latin@ writing, edited with John Chavez (Denver: Counterpath, 2014).
• My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited with Kate Bernheimer (New York: Penguin, 2010).

Chapbooks

• Jokey Poems Up to Ten (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2013)
• Can We Talk Here (New York, Belladonna Books, 2011)
• Reason's Monster (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2011)
• Glitch (Zurich, Dusie Kollectiv, 2010)

External links

• Author site
• Featured in Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series
• Biography at the Poetry Foundation
• "NewsPoet: Carmen Gimenez Smith's Day In Verse", NPR, May 21, 2012
• News: Latino Lens: Feminist Poet Draws Praise for New Book . Erika L. Sánchez . NBC News.
• Carmen Giménez Smith recorded for the literary archive in the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress on February 14, 2014.

Notes and References

1. News: Carmen Gimenez Smith. 2018-08-20. en. May 4, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190504114503/https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-english/faculty/carmen-gimenez-smith.html. dead.
2. Web site: NewsPoet: Carmen Gimenez Smith's Day In Verse . NPR.
3. Web site: Faculty page at Bennington College. ashland.edu. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927150745/http://www.ashland.edu/faculty/english/smith-carmen. September 27, 2011. dead. August 27, 2011. mdy.
4. Web site: About Noemi Press . 2024-04-06 . noemipress.org . en-US.
5. Web site: CantoMundo Growing Leadership Team CantoMundo. www.cantomundo.org. en. 2018-08-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20190425222213/http://cantomundo.org/blog/cantomundo-growing-leadership-team. April 25, 2019. dead.
6. News: Harvard poet Stephanie Burt's new volume explores gender, memory. 2017-11-03. Harvard Gazette. 2018-08-20. en-US.
7. Web site: CARMEN GIMÉNEZ IS THE NEXT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PUBLISHER OF GRAYWOLF PRESS | Graywolf Press .
8. Web site: Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series . poetrysociety.org . August 27, 2011.
9. Web site: Howard Foundation Fellows . Brown.edu . August 27, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607053603/http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/NewFellows.html . June 7, 2011 . dead .
10. Web site: Carmen Giménez Smith. Smith. Carmen Giménez. 2010-09-08. Carmen Giménez Smith. en. 2017-01-31.
11. Web site: ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2011 JUNIPER PRIZES . umass.edu . August 27, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110823005227/http://www.umass.edu/umpress/juniper_winners2011.pdf . August 23, 2011 . mdy .
12. News: Our talk with prolific poet, author and publisher Carmen Giménez Smith. NBC News. 2018-08-20. en-US.
13. Web site: The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced . October 7, 2019 .
14. Web site: Announcing the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists . January 28, 2020 .
15. Web site: The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry .
16. Web site: Wappler . Margaret . Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon and Colson Whitehead among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists . Los Angeles Times. February 19, 2020 .
17. Web site: NBCC finalists announced . . Kirsten Reach . January 14, 2014 . January 14, 2014 . January 8, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170108161918/http://www.mhpbooks.com/nbcc-finalists-announced/ . dead .
18. Web site: Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013 . National Book Critics Circle . January 14, 2014 . January 14, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140115014055/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists . January 15, 2014 . dead .
19. Web site: The 2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced. 2019-10-07. National Book Foundation. en-US. 2019-10-09.
20. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Carmen Giménez Smith. en-US. 2020-02-07.