Description
Fantasma
by Benjamin Alfaro
$13.99, paper
978-1-63534-805-7
2018
Benjamin Alfaro is a writer, educator, and organizer from Michigan. He is a 2017 Kresge Artist Fellow and the co-author of the poetry collection Home Court. His writing was anthologized in The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and has recently appeared in TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Duende, and elsewhere. In the classroom, his work has been featured on VICE, PBS NewsHour, and Katie Couric’s Cities Rising: Rebuilding America. Benjamin was a teaching artist and organizer in Detroit classrooms for more than ten years. His work with InsideOut Literary Arts helped launch the Youth Poet Laureate program and Louder Than a Bomb: The Michigan Youth Poetry Festival. While studying at Wayne State University, he co-founded the student organization WayneSLAM and in high school, his path to international poetry slam competition was documented in the HBO Original Series: Brave New Voices. Currently, he is a graduate student at University of Minnesota studying Arts and Cultural Leadership. He lives in Minneapolis.
Henry Forest –
Benjamin Alfaro is a deep soul who has always moved me to all corners of emotion. A star amongst the darkness, his words will shed enlightenment unto the shadows. The poems were worth the long journey across the equator to Australia.