Chelsey Minnis Explained

Chelsey Minnis (born 1970 in Dallas, Texas) ^[1] is an American poet. Her collections of poetry include Zirconia, Bad Bad, Poemland, and Baby I Don't Care. Zirconia won the 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry.^[2] She received a B. A. in English from the University of Colorado Boulder and studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.^[3]

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."^[4]

Selected works

• Zirconia. New York: Fence Books, 2001.
• Foxina. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2002.
• Bad Bad. New York: Fence Books, 2007.
• Poemland. Seattle: Wave Books, 2009.
• Baby, I Don't Care. Seattle: Wave Books, 2018.

External links

• Boston Review, Jan/Feb 2009; Review of Bad Bad
• Small Press Distribution; author page for Poemland
• Wave Books author page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Authorized Heading, References and Notes (Library of Congress Authorities). authorities.loc.gov. 2018-03-26.
2. http://www.adbfoundation.org/collection.htm#minnis 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry
3. Web site: Chelsey Minnis. 2018-03-26. Poetry Foundation. en-us. Poetry Foundation. 2018-03-26.
4. Arielle Greenberg, "Some Notes on the Origin of the (Term) Gurlesque," Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics, ed. Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, Saturnalia Books, 2010, p. 2