Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visual artist. Her most recent collection of poetry is Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books). Griffiths teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn. View her video of Amiri Baraka’s “Incident” for #blackpoetsspeakout.

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On Finally Being Seen as a Black Woman Writer

To Ban Toni Morrison, To Go Blind

September 25, 2015 By Rachel Eliza Griffiths

From Within the Dark-Blood Depths

After Michael Brown: Rachel Eliza Griffiths

August 11, 2015 By Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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