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    Ari Banias

    Ari Banias is the author of Anybody, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review and the Nation, among other publications. He lives in Oakland, California.

    Ari Banias

    Ari Banias is the author of Anybody, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review and the Nation, among other publications. He lives in Oakland, California.

    Awards

    Shortlisted — Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 2018

    Books by Ari Banias

    • Anybody: Poems

      Ari Banias

      Paperback, 2018

      “Ari Banias is one of the best living poets, and this book in your hands is our proof. Anybody is the courage of a poet who trusts the strength of poetry to make room in our world for everybody.” —...
    • Anybody: Poems

      Ari Banias

      E Book, 2016

      “Ari Banias is one of the best living poets, and this book in your hands is our proof. Anybody is the courage of a poet who trusts the strength of poetry to make room in our world for everybody.” —...
    • A Symmetry: Poems

      Ari Banias

      E Book

      Winner of the 2022 Publishing Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Award

      A thrilling, discursive second collection from “a poet for this hour—bewildered, hopeful, and cracklingly alive”...
    • A Symmetry: Poems

      Ari Banias

      Paperback, 2023

      Winner of the 2022 Publishing Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Award

      A thrilling, discursive second collection from “a poet for this hour—bewildered, hopeful, and cracklingly alive”...