ANGEL NAFIS
Angel Nafis is an Ann Arbor, Michigan native where she resided as the VOLUME youth poetry projects Poet in Residence at the Neutral Zone Teen Center for two years. She represented Ann Arbor in the Brave New Voices festival two years in a row as a member of the Youth Slam Team which performed on the final stages at the San Francisco Opera House and the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Her work can be stumbled upon in FOUND Magazine’s Requiem for a Paper Bag, Decibels, GirlSpeak Webzine, The Bear Rivers Writing Conference Online Magazine, and MUZZLE Magazine. In 2011 she represented the LouderArts poetry project at both the Women of the World Poetry Slam and the National Poetry Slam. She is an Urban Word NYC Mentor. Her chapbook BlackGirl Mansion will be released through Red Beard Press in 2012. She currently curates and hosts a poetry reading series in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She’s never leaving Brooklyn.
“I love how so many of her thoughts swing on one word or phrase to lead into a different idea. As sentences, they’re jarring, but in the poetry, they’re perfect. God she’s good.” - Christian Woodard
“Angel Nafis is the clearest indicator I know that remarkable art is birthed from listening: to dialect, to subtext, to the unending tune of history that informs who we are. Her poems are personal, familial, and unflinching with their secrets. Like is only possible from those brave enough to risk everything in their details, we find our individuality through her stories. See for yourself, when the dust clears, we’ll have found our 21st century American bard.”- Jon Sands, Author of “The New Clean”
“I love how so many of her thoughts swing on one word or phrase to lead into a different idea. As sentences, they’re jarring, but in the poetry, they’re perfect. God she’s good.” - Christian Woodard
“Angel Nafis is the clearest indicator I know that remarkable art is birthed from listening: to dialect, to subtext, to the unending tune of history that informs who we are. Her poems are personal, familial, and unflinching with their secrets. Like is only possible from those brave enough to risk everything in their details, we find our individuality through her stories. See for yourself, when the dust clears, we’ll have found our 21st century American bard.”- Jon Sands, Author of “The New Clean”
