Chelsey Minnis
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Chelsey Minnis is an American poet
. Her collections of poetry include Zirconia, Bad Bad and Poemland. Zirconia won the 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry.
Minnis's work was described as expressing a "gurlesque" aesthetic by Arielle Greenberg
, which she described as "a feminine, feminist incorporating of the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy."
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
. Her collections of poetry include Zirconia, Bad Bad and Poemland. Zirconia won the 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry.
Minnis's work was described as expressing a "gurlesque" aesthetic by Arielle Greenberg
Arielle Greenberg
Arielle Greenberg is a Feminist Poet and the poetry editor of Black Clock. She is most renowned for naming and describing the concept of the Gurlesque in the anthology Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics which she co-edited with Lara Glenum.-Biography:Greenberg was an assistant...
, which she described as "a feminine, feminist incorporating of the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy."