Ari Banias's guest appearances

Ari Banias

The Poetry Magazine Podcast

The Deerfield Public Library Podcast

Berkeley Talks

Nathan's Nurturing Poetry Podcast

Tarfia Faizullah

Richard Rothstein

Joyce Carol Oates

Donika Kelly

Xandria Phillips

Thurston Moore

Julian Gewirtz

Jericho Brown

Chris Claremont

Naomi Klein

Maz Jobrani

Steve McQueen

Fatimah Asghar

Jenny Johnson

Naomi Shihab Nye

OwlTail

Ari Banias is the author of A SYMMETRY (2021), winner of the 2021 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans &amp; Gender Variant Literature, and ANYBODY (2016), both from W.W. Norton. His poems have appeared in Bæst, Hyperallergic, The Nation, The New Republic, Triple Canopy, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago. Copyright © Ari Banias.  Published in BathHouse Journal, and then in their collection A Symmetry (W. W. Norton, 2021). Text of today’s poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets  in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and teacher Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this second year of our series is the first movement, Schéhérazade, from Masques, Op. 34, by Karol Szymanowski, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.

Ari Banias is the author of A SYMMETRY (2021), winner of the 2021 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans &amp; Gender Variant Literature, and ANYBODY (2016), both from W.W. Norton. His poems have appeared in Bæst, Hyperallergic, The Nation, The New Republic, Triple Canopy, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago. Copyright © Ari Banias.  Published in BathHouse Journal, and then in their collection A Symmetry (W. W. Norton, 2021). Text of today’s poem and more details about our program can be found at: <a href="https://deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/</a> Find books from participating poets <a href="https://dpl-encore.deerfieldlibrary.org/iii/encore/search/C__Squeer%20poem%20a%20day__Orightresult__U?lang=eng" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> in our library's catalog</a>.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and teacher <a href="https://www.lisahiton.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lisa Hiton</a> and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this second year of our series is the first movement, Schéhérazade, from Masques, Op. 34, by Karol Szymanowski, performed by pianist <a href="http://danielbaerpiano.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Daniel Baer</a>. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the <a href="https://deerfieldlibrary.org/friends-of-the-library/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Friends of the Deerfield Public Library</a> and the <a href="https://www.deerfield.il.us/456/Fine-Arts-Commission" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deerfield Fine Arts Commission</a>. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.

Queer Poem-a-Day: Oracle by Ari Banias

I hope you enjoy my first take at a poem and analysis!

I hope you enjoy my first take at a poem and analysis!

"Sunset" By Ari Banias with analysis

Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (2016), which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and as part of the MOTHA exhibition, Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects. Banias is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program. He lives in Berkeley, teaches poetry and works with small press books.On Feb. 7, 2019, Banias read his poetry — from Anybody and some new work — at Lunch Poems, an ongoing poetry reading series at UC Berkeley that began in 2014. All readings happen from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month in Morrison Library in Doe Library. Admission is free.Listen and read the transcript on Berkeley News.See all Berkeley Talks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (2016), which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and as part of the MOTHA exhibition, Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects. Banias is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Stanford University's Wallace Stegner program. He lives in Berkeley, teaches poetry and works with small press books.On Feb. 7, 2019, Banias read his poetry — from Anybody and some new work — at <a href="http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lunch Poems</a>, an ongoing poetry reading series at UC Berkeley that began in 2014. All readings happen from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month in Morrison Library in Doe Library. Admission is free.Listen and read the transcript on <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/02/25/berkeley-talks-ari-banias-lunch-poems/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Berkeley News.</a><a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/podcasts/berkeley-talks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">See all Berkeley Talks.</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

East Bay poet Ari Banias reads new work at Lunch Poems

The editors discuss Ari Banias’s poem “Fountain” from the October 2018 issue of Poetry.

The editors discuss Ari Banias’s poem “Fountain” from the October 2018 issue of Poetry.