Remica L. Bingham-Risher earned an MFA from Bennington College, is a Cave Canem fellow and a member of the Affrilachian Poets. Her first book, Conversion (Lotus Press, 2006), won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and was published by Lotus Press. Her second book, What We Ask of Flesh, was published by Etruscan Press in February 2013. She is the Director of Writing and Faculty Development at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children. She is currently finalizing a book of interviews entitled Blood on the Page—African-American Poets from the Black Arts Movement to the Neo-Urban Modernist Movement: Interviews, Essays and Poems.
For more information on her work and upcoming events, please visit: www.remicalbingham.com.
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Reviews and Praise for What We ask of Flesh
“She sees with a brave eye and hears the music of all our languages, validating each. Her story is the human story; her sharing it an act of great generosity.” – Lucille Clifton
Remica L. Bingham addresses a woman’s sense of body graced with spirituality in its most powerful or most vulnerable moments in the collection…From the opening poem drawn, from the distant past, to the final three elegiac poems, which beautifully anchor the book to the present, Bingham pursues the female body in all its fierce beauty…with eloquence and urgency in a bitter sweet salute to those women who have paved the way for us all. – Colleen J. McElroy
What We Ask of Flesh, like the flesh itself, is full of honey and fire. It’s impossible not to feel called by these poems, summoned by their rich sound and vatic voice. Remica Bingham-Risher reckons with the big stuff: the complexities of womanhood, the problem of suffering, family, and childhood’s darker aspects. Every poem is uttered with fervor and a timeless sense of gravity and rapture. – Amy Gerstler
http://www.poetsquarterly.com/2013/10/what-we-ask-of-flesh-by-remica-l-bingham.html
http://etruscanpress.tumblr.com/post/81709836371/flesh-contemplates-social-issues-of-womanhood
http://www.rattle.com/what-we-ask-of-flesh-by-remica-l-bingham/
https://mosaicmagazine.org/2013/07/15/what-we-ask-of-flesh-review/
Read More From Remica Online
http://danmurano.com/poetry/remica-l-bingham-risher
http://etruscanpress.tumblr.com/post/100861154416/remica-l-bingham-risher
http://www.connotationpress.com/featured-guest-editor/february-2011/727-remica-l-bingham-poetry
http://danmurano.com/poetry/remica-l-bingham-risher
http://therumpus.net/author/remica-bingham-risher/
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xo
Mary
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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