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Erica Miriam Fabri is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her first book, Dialect of a Skirt, published by Hanging Loose Press (2010), was a finalist for the 2011 Paterson Poetry Prize and included on the list for: The Best Books of 2010 at About.com; and the bestseller lists for Small Press Distribution and the Poetry Foundation. Her second book, Morphology, (2025) was the winner of the Write Bloody Publishing Jack McCarthy book award.
Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies and she has worked on projects as a writer, editor, and performance director for The New York Knicks, Urban Word NYC, HBO, and Nickelodeon Television. Her poetry has been featured in multi-media formats for short films and television commercial programming.
She has been awarded a writer’s residency at the Omega Institute and has been a featured and/or visiting poet and performer for numerous art festivals and outreach programs including drug rehabilitation centers, prisons and hospitals.
She teaches Performance Poetry and Fiction at Pace University, as well as Essay Writing at College of Staten Island for the City University of New York (CUNY). She is also a Freelance Photographer, a New Yorker, and a Mama.
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Gmail: ericafabri@gmail.com
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REVIEWS FOR MORPHOLOGY:
“Morphology is Erica Miriam Fabri’s most dazzling collection of poems, showcasing a writer with full control of her craft. With her trademark syntax—consistently original and strange—Fabri scaffolds stories of grief and love with a poet’s curiosity and reckless charm. Whether writing of a man sleeping beside his wife’s corpse, or the grueling anticipation of a firstborn’s late arrival, Fabri solidifies herself as the most unbridled romantic bard in contemporary poetry.” - Rachel McKibbens, Poet
“In Morphology, Erica Miriam Fabri moves with imagination, exuberance and grace through visceral, challenging terrain: the death of a first love, a marriage’s break-up, the aftermath of 9-11. The book culminates with a riveting thirty poem sequence, a series of diaristic missives addressed to the child-to-be the poetic speaker is carrying to term; we readers are privileged to be privy to this intimate address that blends the public and the private in fresh and engaging ways. Fabri’s Morphology just might change you.” - Jeffrey McDaniel, Poet
“Running through Erica Miriam Fabri's poetry is a ribbon of the fantastical, magical, and allegorical - she sees what is extraordinary woven through the fabric of the ordinary. The collection is beautiful and vulnerable, alternatingly gentle and sharp, moving and revealing in a way that lingers long after a reader returns to their own extraordinary ordinary life.” - Sarah Kay, Poet
“In Morphology, Erica Miriam Fabri takes vast concepts and reimagines them with an intimacy that feels close and deeply relatable. Her poems have a way of sneaking up on you - like feeling blissfully safe in the eye of a hurricane, only to emerge profoundly aware of its impact.” - Dominique Fishback, Actress & Poet
“Erica Miriam Fabri is amazing. I love these poems and I appreciate her observations of life and the way she wrangles her words and the world." - Dante Basco, Actor & Poet
Morphology is a beautiful, visceral account of unconventional love. In this, Fabri's second book, she writes of grief with a tender resilience...Morphology tells stories of violence, death, illness, and new life. Each of these elements are tied together by the books' one consistent theme: the capacity of the heart. - Fish Dellangelo, LiVE Mag!
REVIEWS FOR DIALECT OF A SKIRT:
THE POETRY FOUNDATION: “Erica Miriam Fabri opens her debut collection, Dialect of a Skirt, with the lines: “I will be frank: I want to become a poet / while I am still young and rare. / I want to be a foxy poet.” Who knows if being on the contemporary bestseller list is part of being a foxy poet (Sure it is! Right?), but Fabri is in at number 29 this week, just behind Philip Levine and just ahead of Rae Armantrout. Not bad company.” -Harriet Staff, The Poetry Foundation Bestseller’s List.
BARRELLHOUSE MAGAZINE: “Erica Miriam Fabri’s first collection of poems Dialect of a Skirt dares the reader to keep the word beautiful written on the body.” -Michael Allen Turner, from Barrellhouse Magazine
BOB HOLMAN ABOUT.COM: “Move over, Poetry. Erica Miriam Fabri has entered the room: a first book, Dialect of a Skirt, is persona deluxe, post-feminist, playful, serious, adorable and untouchable simultaneously.“ -Bob Holman, Owner Bowery Poetry Club, for About.com’s Best Poetry Books of 2010
THE BROOKLYN RAIL: “The dance of the sexes is the theme of this promising debut by Erica Miriam Fabri. The author tells story poems. Love, sex, desire, rape, seduction, and charm are limned in first person narratives or monologues. Sometimes she’s herself and sometimes a worldly figure like Marilyn Monroe…” -Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, from The Brooklyn Rail
BOSTON AREA SMALL PRESS: “Fabri gropes our language, she creates spells from idols, icons, from her own definitions of what it means to be forever young…The truth is, no one needs to live without this book of poems.” -Doug Holder, from The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Review
THE BOXCAR POETRY REVIEW: “Fabri offers up her images as delicacies readers are unable to refuse, pandering her words like a New York street vendor. But something about Fabri is undeniably compelling. Maybe it’s her slick use of metaphor, her sassy line breaks, or fiercely feminine perspective. Whatever the case, Fabri’s work stands as a stunning first achievement and a fresh voice in poetry.” -Joy Sullivan, The Boxcar Poetry Review
SPINDLE MAGAZINE: “Fabri’s strong voice, ear for nuance, and self-confidence are on full display. She never shies from being as concise as each individual poem calls for or letting them breathe when necessary, and she experiments with rhythm and line breaks in ways that don’t feel precious or self-indulgent. -Guy Le Charles Gonzalez, from LoudPoet.com and Spindle Magazine
FARLEY’S BOOKSHOP: “Fabri’s debut collection is a raw, funny, poignant and unique. She can be frank and subtle in the same poem, always emerging from her stylized and passionate voice. Fabri is a special voice in modern poetry and if this debut is any indicator, she has many great things ahead of her.”
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