Podcast appearances and mentions of Safia Elhillo

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast April submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more.Listen to the poems using your favorite podcast player and then read each below:Portrait of a Waxwing by Lores DenisonMelanophobia by Maya SheppardOne July Ago, There Was a Cafe by Keith GabouryVenus of Urbino by Kenneth Boyd

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast March submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today.A Father's Pride by Rachel NovakBREATHE by Shada Harriswatch by Julia SkyeHow to Catch Fire by Jaineba Chang

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast November submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured poets in this episode: ràithean by Eartha Davis Park Avenue South by Thomas Sadoski The Chase by hms --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. Featured poets: Things Will Work Out by Madi Huffman Summer Storm by Ben Fowlkes African Black Soap Burns Me Now by Dereka Smith New York Rhino by VA Wiswell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast August submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. Home, My Home by Alexandra Sim ​​Alton and Aaliyah by Dolapo Demuren Permission by Morgan Stone The Color is Brown by Reonda Thompson A Smart Girl by Stepy Kamei Nocturne: Rockland Bakery, 3 AM by Christine Potter --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

This week, my guest on the show is the incredibly talented, Safia Elhillo. Safia's work always leaves me mesmerised and craving for more. In her beautiful poetry, she explores themes of belonging, identity, home, friendship, love, pain, suffering, and so much more.  Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award, Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022), and the novel in verse Home Is Not A Country (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, Safia received the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and was listed in Forbes Africa's 2018 “30 Under 30.” Her work appears in POETRY Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day series, among othersSupport the Show.

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast June submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. June featured poets: Under by Scott Pleasants Fabrication by Jennifer Brown Faces by Kenya McDonald Harry's by Olivia Qi Orderly by Hoyt Rogers --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Day 12: Fatimah Asghar reads their poem “The Ocean is Trynna Fuck,” originally published in the American Poetry Review, 2023.  Fatimah Asghar is an artist who spans across different genres and themes. They have been featured in various outlets such as TIME, NPR, Teen Vogue and the Forbes 30 Under 30 List. They are the author of If They Come For Us  and When We Were Sister, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Carol Shield's Prize. Along with Safia Elhillo they co-edited an anthology for Muslim people who are also women, trans, gender non-conforming, and/ or queer, Halal If You Hear Me. They are the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, and wrote and directed the short films Got Game and Retrieval. They are also a writer and co-producer on Ms. Marvel on Disney +, and wrote Episode 5, Time and Again, which was listed as one of the best TV episodes of 2022 in the New York Times and Hollywood Reporter.   Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and professor Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this fourth year of our series is from the second movement of the “Geistinger Sonata,” Piano Sonata No. 2 in C sharp minor, by Ethel Smyth, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission.  

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast May submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

It's The Stacks Book Club day and writer Hala Alyan is back to discuss this month's pick, The January Children by Safia Elhillo. It is an award-winning poetry collection by the Sudanese-American poet Safia Elhillo. We examine the prevailing themes of displacement and duality, the urgency with which a poet writes, and we ask, how should one judge poetry?Be sure to listen to the end of today's episode to find out what our May book club pick will be.You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website:https://thestackspodcast.com/2024/04/24/ep-316-the-january-childrenEpisode TranscriptConnect with Hala: Instagram | WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | Substack | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonTo support The Stacks and find out more from this week's sponsors, click here.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Journalist and bestselling author Keith O'Brien joins this episode to talk about his new book Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. Keith reveals his thoughts on Rose's complex story, which is anything but black and white. We also discuss the steroid era of baseball, Pete Rose's legacy around race, and the Baseball Hall of Fame.The Stacks Book Club selection for April is The January Children by Safia Elhillo. We will discuss the book on April 24th with Hala Alyan.You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website:https://thestackspodcast.com/2024/04/17/ep-315-keith-obrienEpisode TranscriptConnect with Keith: Instagram | Twitter | WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | Substack | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonTo support The Stacks and find out more from this week's sponsors, click here.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, filmmaker, educator and performer, Fatimah Asghar. Their work has appeared in many journals, including  POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets and many others.  Their work has been featured on new outlets like PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others. In 2011, they created a spoken word poetry group in Bosnia and Herzegovina called REFLEKS while on a Fulbright studying theater in post-genocidal countries. They are a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. They are the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-Nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color.  Their debut book of poems, If They Come For Us, was released One World/ Random House, August 2018. Along with Safia Elhillo, they are the editor of Halal If You Hear Me, an anthology that celebrates Muslim writers who are also women, queer, gender nonconforming and/or trans. SourceThis episode includes a reading of their poem, “If They Come for Us”  featured in our 2023 Get Lit Anthology.“If They Come for Us”these are my people & I findthem on the street & shadowthrough any wild all wildmy people my peoplea dance of strangers in my bloodthe old woman's sari dissolving to windbindi a new moon on her foreheadI claim her my kin & sewthe star of her to my breastthe toddler dangling from strollerhair a fountain of dandelion seedat the bakery I claim them toothe Sikh uncle at the airportwho apologizes for the patdown the Muslim man who abandonshis car at the traffic light dropsto his knees at the call of the Azan& the Muslim man who drinksgood whiskey at the start of maghribthe lone khala at the parkpairing her kurta with crocsmy people my people I can't be lostwhen I see you my compassis brown & gold & bloodmy compass a Muslim teenagersnapback & high-tops gracingthe subway platformMashallah I claim them allmy country is madein my people's imageif they come for you theycome for me too in the deadof winter a flock ofaunties step out on the sandtheir dupattas turn to oceana colony of uncles grind their palms& a thousand jasmines bell the airmy people I follow you like constellationswe hear glass smashing the street& the nights opening darkour names this country's woodfor the fire my people my peoplethe long years we've survived the longyears yet to come I see you mapmy sky the light your lantern longahead & I follow I followSupport the showSupport the show

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast February submitted poems episode features five wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. A Defense of Vermin by Peter Carellini Kiting by t.m. thomson The Fallen by Edward Sankey Crow in Variations by Diane Sahms Her Name is Heather by Tobi Alfier --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Poets Safia Elhillo and Charif Shanahan talk to Isaac Ginsberg Miller, a poet and PhD candidate in African American Studies at Northwestern, about their friendship, kinship, seeing and being seen by others, their intended audiences and ideal readers, inherited/received forms, experimentalism, the instability of racialized experience for many Black Southwest Asians and North Africans.

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast September submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured poets include: You left a box of neckties by Ani Jones Words and Lives by Siavash Saadlou My Blue Affront by Keith Mark Gaboury A Brief History of Obsession by Sara Femenella A Pair of Ruby Red Slipper Threw Up All Over My Dining Room Table by Kelsey Kessler Astrolabe by Marianne Tefft --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

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The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast June submitted poems episode features five wonderful contributions read by five poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. Whiskey Breath by Sinead McGuigan Nothing to Lose by Heather MacKechnie How to What? by Lawrence Bridges You May Experience Some Joint Discomfort by Denise Alden Pray for my Daughter by Dana Kinsey --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Friendships deserve praise songs, and here's a praise song — an ode — to friends that have crossed continents for each other, and would go further if needed.Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, and Home Is Not a Country, and is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, she is also the recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. Her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, The Atlantic, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, among others.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Safia Elhillo's poem, and invite you to connect with Poetry Unbound throughout this season.

Recorded by Safia Elhillo for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 8, 2023. www.poets.org

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast April submitted poems episode, for National Poetry Month features seven wonderful contributions read by seven poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Students from the National Student Poets Program discuss their work and the importance of poetry in the lives of young people today. The National Student Poets Program is the nation's highest honor for young poets (grades 10–11) creating original work. Annually, five students are selected for one year of service, each representing a different geographic region of the country. The Program believes in the power of youth voices to create and sustain meaningful change, and supports them in being heard. Four of the five 2021 National Student Poets joined us for this program: Aanika Eragam, Kevin Gu, Kechi Mbah, and Sarah Fathima Mohammed. The following conversation originally took place May 15th, 2022 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival. AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOME About the 2021 National Student Poets: Aanika Eragam is a senior at Milton High School in Milton, Georgia who serves as the 2021 National Student Poet for the Southeast. Through her mother's bedtime tales of South Indian mythology, Aanika was first exposed to the power of storytelling in connecting her to her cultural heritage, unlocking foreign perspectives, and exploring history. Since then, she's written poetry and creative nonfiction about culture, family, girlhood, and body image. Aanika serves as the 2021 Atlanta Youth Poet Laureate and the Editor-in-Chief of her high school literary magazine The Globe. Kevin Gu is a Chinese American from Boston and the 2021 National Student Poet of the Northeast. His work has been included in Rattle, The National Poetry Quarterly, Ember Journal, and The Eunoia Review among others. On his off days, he enjoys hunting for underrated boba shops and eating cold watermelon. Kechi Mbah is a senior at Carnegie Vanguard High School and a Houston native. She first found a love for poetry when she stumbled upon a YouTube video of a Brave New Voices slam competition in the fall of 2019 and has been performing and writing poetry ever since. Her poetry explores many avenues from making the known strange to chronicling her experiences as a Nigerian-American and the histories of her people. She currently serves as the 2021 National Student Poet of the Southwest and her work can be found in Blue Marble Review, The Incandescent Review, elementia, and elsewhere. Sarah Fathima Mohammed, daughter of Indian Muslim immigrants, is the 2021-22 National Student Poet representing the West Region, the nation's highest honor for youth poets. She writes poetry sourced in grief, faith, and longing because, for her people, these emotions are inherited. When she travels back to her hometown in Kumbakonam, India, Sarah sits in circles with girls at the mosque, reading Safia Elhillo and Fatimah Asghar's anthology of Muslim voices, Halal If You Hear Me. When she is not writing, Sarah loves long morning walks with her family and listening to music by Yuna.

Join Chris in conversation with Fatimah Asghar, author of When We Were Sisters (Penguin Random House), about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!  Fatimah Asghar is an artist who spans across different genres and themes. A poet, a fiction writer, and a filmmaker, Fatimah cares less about genre and instead prioritizes the story that needs to be told and finds the best vehicle to tell it. Play is critical in the development of their work, as is intentionally building relationship and authentic collaboration. Their first book of poems If They Come For Us explored themes of orphaning, family, Partition, borders, shifting identity, and violence. Along with Safia Elhillo, they co-edited Halal If You Hear Me, an anthology for Muslim people who are also women, trans, gender non-conforming, and/ or queer. The anthology was built around the radical idea that there are as many ways of being Muslim as there are Muslim people in the world. They also wrote and co-created Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendship among women of color. Their debut lyrical novel, When We Were Sisters, explores sisterhood, orphaning, and alternate family building, and is forthcoming October 2022. While these projects approach storytelling through various mediums and tones, at the heart of all of them is Fatimah's unique voice, insistence on creating alternate possibilities of identity, relationships and humanity then the ones that society would box us into, and a deep play and joy embedded in the craft. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tpq20/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast February submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Poets featured in this episode: light// [verb] by Maddy Robinson Gathering Light at a Ferry Stop, Jesolo, Italy by George Yatchisin a brief history of birds of prey she said by Mara Adamitz Scrupe MET by Karin Falcone Krieger Hammer Head by Yael Valencia Aldana cardinals (they come in pairs) by Rachel Richmond --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Un poema de Safia Elhillo ilumina un programa de cancionistas que proponen verdades. Alma y corazón. Ahwak. Abdel Halim Hafez  Dores. Alegoría. Bela. Guadi Galego Tempestad. Amor. Entre tú y yo. Tan lejos. A tu lado. Simulacro. Fino Oyonarte Everything I did, I did it just for you. Like a pearl. What a show. Rumia Dinosaurios y Supermercados. Wild Honey Escuchar audio

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast December submitted poems episode features seven wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Poets featured in this episode: The Twittering Machine and A Question of Hope by Linda Eve Diamond Ruin, Canyon de Chelly by Alex Stanley A Pelican Feeding Her Young by Angela Sucich Dangling Woman by Cynthia Dorfman Dulce de leche stuffed churro by Ipsheeta Furtado When Rousseau Leaves His Studio He Sees Things Differently by Rosanne Ehrlich --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/viewlesswings/support

The poet Safia Elhillo first found her voice onstage, performing in youth poetry slams in Washington, D.C., where she grew up, the child of Sudanese immigrants. She published her first collection in 2017, and in 2021 her novel in verse, “Home Is Not a Country,” was long-listed for the National Book Award. She's now out with a new collection, “Girls That Never Die,” which she characterizes as her most personal and vulnerable work yet. It responds to some of the backlash she received online after her earlier work was published. “Before this book, I think I had really clear rules for myself about what I was and was not allowed to write poetry about. And my body was one of the things that I was not allowed to write poetry about,” Elhillo tells Dana Goodyear. “I think I really had to sit down and dismantle this idea that if I was polite enough, respectful enough, modest enough, quiet enough, silent enough—that nobody would ever want to do me harm.”

Héctor Abad Faciolince -autor de El olvido que seremos, novela en la que reconstruía la vida y el asesinato de su padre, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad- nos visita para presentarnos su nueva obra, Salvo mi corazón, todo está bien (Ed. Alfaguara), historia protagonizada por un personaje igualmente arrebatador, Luis Córdoba, un cura muy poco convencional que se convirtió en inspiración para toda una generación de artistas en su país. Ignacio Elguero pone otros títulos sobre la mesa: ¡Cuánta hermosura! (Ed. Hiperión), un volumen con 365 haikus de Issa Kobayashi escogidos y traducidos por Teresa Herrero y Jesús Munárriz, Los hijos de enero (Ed. Visor), la ópera prima de la escritora estadounidense de ascendencia sudanesa Safia Elhillo, y Puerta de embarque (Ed. Renacimiento), el nuevo poemario de Raquel Vázquez. Con Javier Lostalé pasamos las páginas de La escala social (Ed. Galaxia Gutenberg), un libro que recoge sesenta microrrelatos de Manuel Longares en los que el autor madrileño trabaja todos los géneros. Del esperpento a la parodia, pasando por el refrán, las sentencias, la fábula o la canción popular. Y terminamos en compañía de Mariano Peyrou, que hoy nos habla de Grunge (Ed. Reino de Cordelia), antología que recopila los poemas de espíritu rockero de Andrés García Cerdán, que propone aquí extrañas parejas como las formadas por César Vallejo y Nirvana, Shakespeare y Smashing Pumpkins o el Eclesiastés y Janis Joplin. Escuchar audio

“One of the most meditative things about writing is that you kind of forget where you are,” says Nick Hakim. “If you're tapped into it, you're not really thinking about anything else.” On this episode of Object of Sound, Nick recalls the spontaneous 5:00am recordings and free writing that went into the making of his new album COMETA, out October 21. Plus, Nick treats us to a special sneak peek of Perfume—one of Hanif's favorite tracks off COMETA—and shares with us the inspiration behind the song, which beautifully captures the excitement of new love. Building on the album's themes, Hanif curates a playlist of songs all about falling in love to close out the episode. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode, head over to radio.sonos.com. Music In This Week's Episode: Vertigo - Nick HakimShoe In - Secret StarsFallingforyou - The 1975I Like It - DeBargeCaught Up In The Rapture - Anita BakerI Couldn't Love You More - SadeKiss Me - Sixpence None The RicherDarling - Montell Fish Show Notes:Nick Hakim's COMETA is out October 21. The singles, Vertigo and Happen, are available now. Check out the poetry of Nick and Hanif's mutual friend Safia Elhillo, and read Dianne Seuss' “Romantic Poetry” in the New Yorker. This episode is part of our mini series, “The Wonders of Songwriting,” three special episodes on Object of Sound devoted to the art of how songs become songs. Hanif talks to artists Ravyn Lenae, Nick Hakim, and Carly Rae Jepsen to understand where their love of language comes from, how words become images become music, where the ideas begin, and how they morph as they move from the page into the intangible space of melody and vibration.If you're a writer or maker in need of a creative refuel, check out Hanif's recent interview on Creative Pep Talk, which also features lessons from artists we've interviewed here on Object of Sound. Credits:This show is produced by work by work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, Kathleen Ottinger, Rhiannon Corby, and by Hanif Abdurraqib. The show is mixed by Sam Bair. Extra gratitude to Joe Dawson and Saidah Blount at Sonos.

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured in this episode: The Execution of Maximillian by Rebekah Bartlett Old Money by R.A. Pavoldi The Magician by Rose Oliver Three Ways of Looking at a Druid by Rosanne Ehrlich Yerushalmi by Simon Constam Deliver Me by Mon Malanovich-Gallagher Once There Was by Marie Chambers --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast August submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured in this episode: Saint Matthew's Rectus Femoris by Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis Aubergine by David Holper The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia by Connor Simons Open Sesame by Norma DaCrema Paddington Park by Linda Drattell --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/viewlesswings/support

On this week's episode, Angela speaks with Safia Elhillo about her new book of poetry GIRLS THAT NEVER DIE. Safia and Angie talk about poetry (of course!), Safia's amazing fashion sense, and what it means to be a poet in all aspects of her life. Safia's the author of two other books, including Home Is Not A Country and The January Children. You can read more about her work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode, Angela speaks with Safia Elhillo about her new book of poetry GIRLS THAT NEVER DIE. Safia and Angie talk about poetry (of course!), Safia's amazing fashion sense, and what it means to be a poet in all aspects of her life. Safia's the author of two other books, including Home Is Not A Country and The January Children. You can read more about her work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poet and author Safia Elhillo discusses her new book Girls That Never Die with Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA, and author of canvas and portraits of red and gray). Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children and Home Is Not a Country and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, she is also the recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. Her work has appeared in POETRY magazine, The Atlantic, and The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day series, among others. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/viewlesswings/support

Join us for a celebration of the winners of the 91st annual California Book Awards! Since 1931, the California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books from around the state in search of the very best in literary achievement. Over its 90 years, the California Book Awards have honored the writers who have come to define California to the world. Among them are John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, MFK Fisher, Thom Gunn, Richard Rodriquez, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joan Didion, Ishmael Reed, and Amy Tan. Recent award winners include Hector Tobar, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Susan Orlean, Rachel Kushner, Rachel Khong, Tommy Orange, Morgan Parker and Steph Cha. This year's winners include: GOLD MEDALS FICTION The Archer, Shruti Swamy, Algonquin Books, an imprint of Workman Publishing, Hachette Book Group FIRST FICTION Skinship, Yoon Choi, Alfred A. Knopf NONFICTION­ Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, Lizzie Johnson, Crown JUVENILE Wishes, Mượn Thị Văn and Victo Ngai, Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc YOUNG ADULT Home Is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo, Make Me a World POETRY Refractive Africa, Will Alexander, New Directions CALIFORNIANA Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles, Rosecrans Baldwin, MCD, an imprint of Farrer, Straus & Giroux CONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING A Rebel's Outcry, Naomi Hirahara, Little Tokyo Historical Society SILVER MEDALS FICTION The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Atlantic FIRST FICTION City of a Thousand Gates, Rebecca Sacks, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers NONFICTION Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis, Gabrielle Selz, University of California Press SPEAKERS Peter Fish California Book Awards Jury Chair Sarah Rosenthal California Book Awards Juror Rosalind Chang California Book Awards Juror In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on June 6th, 2022 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Hope Wabuke and special guests Safia Elhillo and Ladan Osman for a celebration of Wabuke's new book The Body Family. The Body Family is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime unearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure. This lyrical and imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family's journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda's Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke excavates personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be a Black girl becoming a Black woman while navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement. Get The Body Family from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1872-the-body-family --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Hope Wabuke is a Ugandan American poet, essayist, and writer. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir Please Don't Kill My Black Son Please. Hope has published in The Guardian, The Root, Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a founding board member and former Media & Communications Director for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction. Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2021), and a forthcoming novel in verse (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021). Co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket, 2019), she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony (2015), winner of the Sillerman Prize. A 2021 Whiting Award winner, she has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Cave Canem, the Michener Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/XACbmEh1F8k Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Ep47 What started as a way to gather to write at the start of the pandemic evolved into a shared sacred space among Central American and Isthmian writers who sought a space to tell their stories from the Isthmus. La Profesora talks with Eileen Galvez, Stephanie Erskine, Bri Rodriguez, and Jessica Hoppe about how the CentAm Writers began and ways that they have evolved to co-create and co-share a worldwide community. Our Poet-in-Residence & in Resistencia, Gabriel Pulido shares the poem "Ode to my Homegirls by Safia Elhillo". ************************ Learn more about John Lira, the Democratic Nominee for U.S. Congress in Texas-23 at www.liraforcongress.com Don't forget to give us a 5-start review, especially if you're on Apple Podcasts & Spotify!

In this Book Club, we talked to Safia Elhillo about her book "Home is not a country."  The novel is about family, identity, and finding yourself in the most unexpected places.Created & hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About Book Club:Book Club is an interview series that calls for afikra community members, who are interested in literature and reading, to spend time reading along with the entire community. Books in Arabic and English will be announced on afikra's reading list and the members will be asked to do the reading at home at their leisure and then join afikra for a conversation with the authors of those books. Every two weeks, a conversation will be held with an author to discuss their work and the book in particular. Individuals joining the call will be expected to have read the book and prepared questions regarding the context, motivation, and background stories. Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp   FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on  afikra.com

Jenny asked previous podcast guests to chat about their top reads of the year, whether or not they were published in 2021. Jenny also chimes in with her own obscure categories. Please enjoy hearing from Tina, Tom, Lindy, Trish, Andrew, Kim, Jeff, Elizabeth, Audrey, Scott, Robin, Mina, Emily, Chris, Nadine, and Ross. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 236: Best Reads of 2021 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:(duplicates removed) Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram x. Kendo and Keisha N. BlaineBroken Horses written and read by Brandi CarlileSeveral People are Typing by Calvin KasulkeWhen the Light of the World was Subdued edited by Joy HarjoBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Murderbot Diaries series by Martha WellsXeni by Rebekah WeatherspoonAct Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia HibbertThe Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodAmerican Dreamer by Adriana Herrera, narrated by Sean ChristenFight Night by Miriam ToewsNervous Conditions trilogy by Tsitsi Dangarembga The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw, read by Janina EdwardsExhalation: Stories by Ted ChiangSeasonal Quartet by Ali SmithHow to Be Both by Ali SmithMaddAddam trilogy by Margaret AtwoodBarkskins by Annie ProulxSigns for Lost Children by Sarah Moss Tidal Zone by Sarah MossLadivine by Marie Ndiaye To Cook a Bear by Mikael NiemiKindred by Octavia ButlerThe Heart's Invisible Furies by John BoyneThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabMexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-GarciaSummer Sons by Lee Mandelo 
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy BinnsChasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David GrinspoonDune by Frank HerbertOne Long River of Song by Bryan DoyleInk Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa RaymondRazorblade Tears by S.A. CosbyBlacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby Sparrow Envy by J. Drew LanhamHome is not a Country by Safia ElhilloMoon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig RiceCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseWretchedness by Andrzej TichyThe Twilight Zone by Nona FernandezPeach Blossom Paradise by Ge FeiThe Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree JeffersSummer Brother by Jaap Robben; translateld by David DohertyNjal's Saga by AnonymousBrood by Jackie PollenNobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir by Lizi LevineNancy by Bruno Lloret; translated by Ellen JonesShadow King by Maaza MengisteShuggie Bain by Douglas StuartThe Overstory by Richard PowersCloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrCity of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Actual Star by Monica ByrneBewilderment by Richard PowersThe Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky ChambersA Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers  O Beautiful by Jung YunWhile Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams, narrated by Adenrele OjoShelter by Jung YunMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellLove and Saffron
 by Kim FayShadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo MartinezThe Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi VoThe Seed Keeper by Diane WilsonOpen Water by Caleb Azumah NelsonGreat Circle by Maggie ShipsteadTelephone by Percival EverettWhen We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian West; read by Adam Barr To Calais in Ordinary Time by James MeekThe Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William DalrympleA Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska, translated by Christina E. KramerMud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer, translated by Antonio Lloyd-JonesSovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Erika Flatland, translated by Kari DicksonRelated episodes: Episode 046 - Books for Your Kitty Party (The Best of 2015) with Libby Young and many other guestsEpisode 075 - After the Year We've Had (Best of 2016)Episode 105 - Best Reads of 2017 Episode 139 - Stocking Stuffer (Best Reads of 2018) Episode 176 - Best of 2019Episode 209 - Best Reads of 2020Episode 210 - Reading Goals 2021Stalk me online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

In this episode of the Seen Jeem Podcast, Sally Howell interviews author Safia Elhillo about her latest book, Home is Not a Country. The novel in verse explores themes of diasporic belonging through the experiences of the main character, 15-year-old Nima. Elhillo reads several excerpts from the book including "America," "Nostalgia Monster," "Haytham," and "Baba." Recordings of the readings are available on our website at seenjeempodcast.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/seenjeempodcast/message

On today's episode of the Learning to Fly podcast we go down a rabbit hole of poetry by Safia Elhillo - learning what it means to be a Sudanese-American, a poetess in New York city, and to be tongue-tied in not just one language - but two. I really enjoyed putting this episode together for you guys and I'm sorry in advance for the mispronunciation, but definitely google this lovely lady and check out her spoken word videos as well! To my knowledge she also has 3 books available to purchase - pick one, two or even all three of them up for yourselves and consider gifting them throughout the holidays as well! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sincerelybluejaypoetry/message

How do you relate to the country of your birth, if it's a place you've never visited? And when does nostalgia go from being something beautiful to an illness that keeps you from living in the present moment? Our guest today, Safia Elhillo is a Sudanese American poet whose strikingly beautiful debut novel Home Is Not a Country is deeply informed by these questions of belonging, nostalgia, and identity. Her book is written entirely in poetic verse and follows the story of Nima, a 15-year-old girl who longs to escape the racism and bullying she experiences daily in America and become someone else. Safia shares how she was first drawn to poetry because of the sense of community she saw amongst poets at open mic night and how she steadily honed her craft. We discuss the challenges immigrant parents face in imparting their culture to their children and how nostalgia can deprive you of appreciating the richness of your present circumstances. Join us today for an insightful and meaningful conversation on what it means to straddle two worlds and the power of community.• Introducing today's guest Safia Elhillo• Safia shares what she was like as a child and how she discovered her talent for poetry. • Safia's experiences moving around a lot as a child and insights into her cultural background. • How Safia was first drawn to the sense of community among the poets she saw.• Hear about Home Is Not a Country's main character Nima and how Safia created her.• How nostalgia and its effects inform the topic of Safia's book.• How Nima is driven by a desire to return to the country her parents came from.• Nima's experiences of racism, rejection, and loneliness in the US.• The extent to which Home Is Not a Country is autobiographical.• How Home Is Not a Country explores the confusion of growing up in America while straddling two cultures.• Safia shares her experiences of belonging and how her perspective has changed.• The significance of a chosen community.• Safia explains the concept of nostalgia as an illness.• The challenges that immigrant parents face in raising their children to care about a culture they are not immersed in.• The use of magical realism and Islamic mythology in Home Is Not a Country.• The logistical challenges Safia faced in using time travel in her novel.• How Safia chose to write the entire novel in poetic verse.• Why it's important to allow yourself to write a bad first draft.• The value of community and outside input for revising your work.ReferencesSafia Elhillo on Twitter - https://twitter.com/mafiasafiaSafia Elhillo on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/safiamafia/Home Is Not a Country - https://www.amazon.com/Home-Not-Country-Safia-Elhillo/dp/0593177053Break the Good Girl Myth - https://majomolfino.com/bookMajo Molfino - https://majomolfino.com/HEROINE (Podcast) - https://majomolfino.com/podcast

Over one million Bay Area residents are estimated to struggle with food insecurity. Today, we talk to author and homeless advocate LaRayia Gaston about her efforts to divert healthy food away from the trash. Then, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo, who is a child of immigrants, writes about longing for a place she will never see.Today's show is all about books.

In this special “Best of” series of Vinyasa in Verse, I'm highlighting some episodes that recap a crazy year full of shifts, growth and healing. In this one, I talk about healing as a journey. It doesn't happen overnight -- it's a continuous evolution. This is only a starting point // If we can build resilience around trauma in ways that help us stop being overwhelmed by past experiences, we can find joy in healing. // We need to recognize the patterns in our behaviors to create awareness and space, which will support our whole healing journey. // Be kind to yourself as you work towards wholeness and towards gathering the pieces of yourself. Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal (from in-depth courses to 40-day meditation classes), and invitations to practice. Heal to Power is a program designed for women writers of color to help them heal their traumas --known and unknown-- and step into their power. Get on the waitlist for when doors open again in May! https://suryagian.com/heal-to-power-waitlist // Follow me on Instagram for Maverick Mondays, Free Verse Fridays, and some real talk about healing AND play: @leslieannhobayan Today's poems: “The prettiest mule” by Hafez "The Last Time Marvin Gaye Was Heard in the Sudan" by Safia Elhillo from the book The January Children

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, we discuss the life and work of Safia Elhillo. Included in this episode is a reading of her poem “Ode to Gossips” - the full poem is available below for reference. "Ode to Gossips"BY SAFIA ELHILLOi was mothered by lonely women       someof them wives     some of them             withplumes of smoke for husbands    all    lonelysmelling of onions & milk         all motherssome of them to children some to old namesphantom girls acting out a life        only halfa life away      instead        copper kitchenwarebangles pushed up the arm    fingernails rustedwith henna          kneading raw meat with saltwith coriander                     sweating upper lipin the steam       weak tea          hair unwoundagainst the nape         my deities      each onesandal slapping against stone heel      sandal-wood & oud                    bright chiffon spunabout each head     coffee in the dowry chinabutter biscuits on a painted plate      crumbssuspended in eggshell demitasse       & theybegin                  i heard       people are sayingi saw it with my own eyes       [      ]’s daughtera scandal                  she was wearing [      ]& not wearing [   ]            can you imaginea shame                                             a shameSupport the show (https://getlit.org/donate/)

S6 E23: In this special episode of This Is the Author, we’re celebrating National Library Week by asking authors to share some of their favorite library memories. Listen to Jen Sincero, Ethan Kross, Safia Elhillo, Misty Copeland, Ethan Hawke, Jasmine Mans, Mari Andrew, and Seth Godin express the remarkable opportunities that both libraries and librarians provide to individual development and the community as a whole.

I hope you have been enjoying our string of new guests, four out of the last five. Lola talks about her life as a "serial book clubber" and shares books she's read and loved lately.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 215: Lovely Pile. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John BoyneHome is Not a Country by Safia ElhilloHomegoing by Yaa GyasiDays in the Caucasus by Banine, translated by Anne Thompson-AhmadovaDeacon King Kong by James McBrideOther mentions:Elizabeth AcevedoMake Me a World imprintPet by Akwaeke EmeziLife Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson (memoir mentioned)Normal People by Sally RooneyA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaLisa DillmanThe Good Lord Bird by James McBrideWe the Animals by Justin TorresSantino FontanaArmie HammerThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene; read by Colin FirthLadder to the Sky by John BoyneThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann SchafferThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahWinter Garden by Kristin HannahFirefly Lane by Kristin HannahThe Great Alone by Kristin HannahThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahThe January Children by Safia ElhilloTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiBahni TurpinRosamund PikeThandi NewtonFever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowellRich & Pretty by Rumaan AlamThe Need by Helen PhilipsExit West by Mohsin HamidLeave the World Behind by Rumaan AlamThe Wife Upstairs by Rachel HawkinsThe Push by Ashley AudrainKlara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroLong Bright River by Liz MooreBeneath the Keep by Erika JohansenRelated episodes:Episode 051 - Dreaming in Books with KarenEpisode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 147 - Bonus Poetry Recommendations with LaurenEpisode 202 - Jacket Flap with Chris and EmilyStalk us online: Lola at GoodreadsLola is @ferociousreader on Instagram and @Lola on LitsyJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Poet Safia Elhillo joins us to discuss her first young adult novel, "Home is Not a Country."

S6 E15: In this episode, meet poet Safia Elhillo, New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott, and poet and artist Jasmine Mans. Listen in as these remarkable wordsmiths talk about the creative process of both writing their books and reading their audiobooks. Plus, hear their insights into the unique intimacy of voice recording. Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625716/home-is-not-a-country/ Dusk, Night, Dawn by Anne Lamott: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/634388/dusk-night-dawn/ Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/624673/black-girl-call-home/

Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his latest novel ‘Klara and the Sun’ (Knopf, March 2), “a haunting fable of a lonely, moribund world that is entirely too plausible” (starred review). Then our editors offer reading recommendations for the week, with books by Juliet Menéndez, Safia Elhillo, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, and Jack Livings.

Recorded by Safia Elhillo for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 7, 2021. www.poets.org

Healing is a journey. It doesn't happen overnight -- it's a continuous evolution. This is only a starting point // If we can build resilience around trauma in ways that help us stop being overwhelmed by past experiences, we can find joy in healing. // We need to recognize the patterns in our behaviors to create awareness and space, which will support our whole healing journey. // Be kind to yourself as you work towards wholeness and towards gathering the pieces of yourself. // Want to learn more about healing your trauma? Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal (from in-depth courses to 40-day meditation classes), and invitations to practice. And follow me on Instagram for some real talk about healing AND play: @suryagianyogi Today's poems: “The prettiest mule” by Hafez "The Last Time Marvin Gaye Was Heard in the Sudan" by Safia Elhillo from the book The January Children

The KPL Podcast is celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month with another wonderful episode! Award winning author and poet Elizabeth Acevedo joins us to talk about her latest book "Clap When You Land" and treats us to a reading! Fellow librarian Maggie Miller also drops by with some of her favorite recommendations from amazing Hispanic authors. All this and much more can be enjoyed wherever you get your podcasts. Happy listening!  RecommendationsOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongGrown by Tiffany JacksonHome Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo (out in March 2021)Shadow Shaper by Daniel Jose OlderPoet X by Elizabeth AcevedoZorro by Isabel AllendeChildren of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez CastilloCronos

In an effort to do a better job of amplifying voices that for so long have been muted or left out of conversations, Marguerite and Emily would like to use the platform they created with Millennial Poets Society to share the work of Black artists starting with segments from some of their previously recorded episodes. This segment is from Episode 12, published May 24, 2019. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mps-podcast/support

Mary & Wyatt grab some heating pads and settle in for a special “synced cycles” edition of the pod. They talk about how to maintain healthy boundaries in relationships and how your humble hosts have both traditionally done a terrible job of that. Also on the agenda: Game Show!, a bathtub big enough for a bear, and poems by Alice Notley and Safia Elhillo. 

Poets Danez Smith, Safia Elhillo and Sam Sax share work about the saving grace of friendship and the search for joy and intimacy in a world where both can seem scarce.

Jenny divulges her top reads of 2019 and shares the top reads of sixteen other readers. All of us focus on books we read in 2019; they may or may not have been published in 2019. That's how regular readers work! If you listen past that section, there will also be some discussion of the Best of the Decade in reads and reading experiences.Thanks to all of you who participate, interact, and listen to the podcast! You have made this a marvelous year and decade.  Best wishes in the new year. The next episode will be all about reading goals, so feel free to share your 2020 reading goals with me and I might mention them.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 176: Best of 2019 with Jenny and Menagerie.Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify  Books Mentioned: Life and Fate by Vasily GrossmanCastle of Water by Dane KuckelbridgeLent by Jo WaltonFrankissstein by Jeanette WintersonAgainst Memoir by Michelle TeaBrute: Poems by Emily SkajaThe Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. RollinsHalal if You Hear Me edited by Safia Elhillo and Fatimah AsgharCan You Forgive Her? by Anthony TrolloppeThe Old Wives' Tale by Arnold BennettThe Way to the Sea by Caroline CramptonThe Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells Foundation by Isaac AsimovTu by Patricia GraceThe Last Act of Love by Cathy RentzenbrinkAll Among the Barley by Melissa HarrisonEast West Street by Philippe SandsThe Great Believers by Rebekah MakkaiLost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliThe Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel VasquezBirdie by Tracey LindbergThey Will Drown in Their Mother's Tears by Johannes AnyuruThe Museum of Modern Love by Heather RoseCantoras by Caroline de RobertisThe Deeper the Water, the Uglier the Fish by Katya ApekinaGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Very Marrow of Our Bones by Christine HigdonThe Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro ArikawaMetro 2035 by Dmitry GlukhovskyIn the Distance by Hernan DiazMortality by Christopher HitchensTrain Dreams by Denis JohnsonConversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Normal People by Sally RooneyGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukNobber by Oisin FaganWomen Talking by Miriam ToewsWhen Chickenheads Come Home To Roost by Joan MorganOur Women on the Ground edited by Zahra HankirThe Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan StradalSefira and Other Betrayals by John LanganStrange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi KawakamiThe Book of Night Women by Marlon JamesInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFired Up by Andrew JohnstonThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanWhite Fragility by Robin DiAngeloThe Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona EltahawyThis Tilting World by Colette Bellous Other Mentions:Jenny's Full Best of 2019 ListJenny's Best of the Decade List Safia Elhillo and Fatimah Asghar reading at The StrandShedunnit Podcast Related Episodes:Episode 142 - Borders and Bails with Shawn MooneyEpisode 150 - Rife with Storytelling with Sara Episode 154 - Is If If with PaulaEpisode 157 - Joint Readalong of Gone with the Wind with Book Cougars Episode 159 - Reading Doorways with LindyEpisode 160 - Reading Plays with Elizabeth Episode 163 - Fainting Goats with Lauren Episode 166 - On Brand with Karen Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie Episode 173 - Expecting a Lot from a Book with Sarah Tittle  Episode 174 - Cozy Holiday Reads and TBR Explode 4 Episode 175 - Reading on Impulse with Marion Hill Stalk me online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Safia Elhillo is an award-winning poet who performs regularly and whose writing has been published in various journals and anthologies, the New Daugthers of Africa anthology just being one of the latest one. In 2016, her chapbook Asmarani was included in the New Generation African Poets Box Set. Her debut collection The January Children, was published in 2017 and won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. In 2018, she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Her latest book is the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3 which she co-edited with Fatimah Asghar. In this episode, we will talk about Safia’s books, the power of silences in poetry, using different languages in one text, facilitating poetry workshops, the importance of communities and the possibilities of fashion.

Dion O'Reilly interviews Julia Levine. Julia B. Levine has won numerous awards for her work, including the Northern California Book Award in Poetry for Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight. She has three other books: Ditch Tender, Ask, and Practicing for Heaven. She received a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. She lives and works in Davis,California. Also, Farnaz Fatemi reads from Flèche by Mary Jean Chan and Halal If You Hear Me: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3, edited by Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

"Quand je me suis rendu compte de mon identité de genre et de ma sexualité, j'ai commencé à me renfermer. J'ai créé un autre moi qui n'était ni celui de l'intérieur ni celui du dehors." (1:45) Son enfance au Pakistan jusqu'à 5-8 ans, puis en France (5:30) Ses premières questions sur le racisme, auprès de son père réfugié politique pakistanais (7:00) Le déclic qu'a été la mort de Zyed et Bouna, ainsi que les révoltes des banlieues de 2005 : "S'était créée une forme de solidarité entre personnes qui subissent le racisme. On se rendait compte qu'on vivait les mêmes choses, et qu'on devait créer des stratégies de survie." (10:30) Son métissage : "Ça n'avait pas de sens pour moi de rejeter une culture ou l'autre. J'étais pakistanais-marocain, puis français. […] Le métissage, ce n'est pas que noir et blanc. Ça peut aussi être quelqu'un comme moi qui ai des origines nord-africaines et asiatiques." (16:30) Le privilège d'être "light skin" = clair de peau (19:00) Ses vacances au Maroc, et surtout au Pakistan d'où il a pu se faire une vision du Conflit du Cachemire (26:00) Le manque de représentation pour les personnes sud-asiatiques, "brown people" ou "desi" (32:45) Son identité de genre et sa sexualité queer (38:30) Son rapport aux préjugés sur les masculinités desi : "En France, on me surnomme pak-pak, vendeur de rose ou de maïs, ou me perçoit comme arabo-musulman. Alors qu'en Angleterre, les personnes desi sont justement perçus comme Asiatiques." (45:30) Comment la danse l'aide à se réconcilier avec son corps (51:40) Ce qu'il ressent quand il danse : "Quand je danse, apparemment je fixe beaucoup les gens comme dans une forme de séduction ou comme si je renvoyais le regard qu'on m'assigne depuis la naissance. Je deviens maître du regard, du corps, de l'espace." (1:03:00) Sa transidentité : "C'est un principe du patriarcat : que personne ne se sente bien par rapport à son genre." Ce podcast est une création originale de Douce Dibondo et Anthony Vincent. Pistes sonores diffusées : Fela Kuti - Lady Kelela feat Kaytranada - Waitin Bolewa Sabourin, la résilience par la danse, le Monde Afrique, septembre 2018 Sevdaliza - Shahmaran Rumi vous recommande : - Le blog photo Just me and allah : A queer Muslim Photo Project de Samra Habib(https://queermuslimproject.tumblr.com/) - Le livre Halal if you hear me de Safia Elhillo et Fatimah Asghar(https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1273-the-breakbeat-poets-vol-3) - Le poème "Trans/Generation" de Alok Vaid-Menon (https://youtu.be/iLPwZZjMqyI) - Le zine Lotus a south asian lgbt charity (https://lotuszine.bigcartel.com/) - Le film "Angry Indian Goddesses" de Pan Nalin (https://youtu.be/a-jyKun4yFA) Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Patrice Vecchione is a teacher of poetry. In this interview she shares stories and poems of immigrant children and of the healing properties of poetry. One cannot help but share the sadness of a young person losing touch with their home culture. You’ll be inspired to make a difference in your community to include this large and mostly unheard population. She is the author of several books including Writing and the Spiritual Life: Finding Your Voice by Looking Within (McGraw Hill 2001), Step Into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life (Beyond Words Publishing 2015), The Knot Untied: a Book of Poetry (Palaquin Press 2013) and Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (coauthor Alyssa Raymond) (Seven Stories Press 2019)Tags: Patrice Vecchione, poetry, migrant children, empathy, compassion, Craig Santos Perez, Chamorro, Mohja Kahf, Javier Zamora, Safia Elhillo, Emi Mahmoud, Darfur, Writing, Social Change, Politics

Patrice Vecchione is a teacher of poetry. In this interview she shares stories and poems of immigrant children and of the healing properties of poetry. One cannot help but share the sadness of a young person losing touch with their home culture. You’ll be inspired to make a difference in your community to include this large and mostly unheard population. She is the author of several books including Writing and the Spiritual Life: Finding Your Voice by Looking Within (McGraw Hill 2001), Step Into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life (Beyond Words Publishing 2015), The Knot Untied: a Book of Poetry (Palaquin Press 2013) and Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (coauthor Alyssa Raymond) (Seven Stories Press 2019)Tags: Patrice Vecchione, poetry, migrant children, empathy, compassion, Craig Santos Perez, Chamorro, Mohja Kahf, Javier Zamora, Safia Elhillo, Emi Mahmoud, Darfur, Writing, Social Change, Politics 

In this episode, Marguerite and Emily press record to talk about a few badass ladies before catching up on the GoT finale (valar morghulis). From Sudan to Paris, these women's experiences and art span across cultures and continents. Don't worry, this episode comes with drinking games included, so grab your favorite seltzer (or perhaps a stronger drink of choice) and relax as your two favorite roommates drop some knowledge- and a new word...?- on you. Featured Poets: Naomi Shihab Nye, Safia Elhillo, Gertrude Stein Special thanks to Zach Adkins for the intro and outro music. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mps-podcast/support

Welcome to the Season 2 finale! We can't be more excited to bring you our interview with Safia Elhillo, a writer whose beautiful realness brilliantly bridges the imagination and reality. You will instantly feel Safia's power, and her voice expands our perspectives when we listen. Her words can simultaneously slap you, embrace you, destroy you, elate you. Enjoy, everyone! Follow Safia on Instagram: [at]safiamafia Support our show with any dollar amount monthly to keep us going by becoming a Weapon of Choice Member at this link: www.patreon.com/weaponofchoicepodcast One-time contributions can be made here: www.paypal.me/weaponofchoicepod Please rate and review Weapon of Choice Podcast on Apple Podcasts/iTunes! Follow us on social media here: Facebook: Weapon of Choice Podcast Instagram: [at]weaponofchoicepodcast Twitter: [at]weaponchoicepod Email us: weaponofchoicefans@gmail.com Weapon of Choice theme song by Renée Copeland Brought to you by Special Menu Productions THANK YOU!

The Cornerstore spoke with Safia Elhillo about her book ‘The January Children,' her career as a traveling poet, and what's next for her. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In May, Pat Frazier became the National Youth Poet Laureate—the first ever from Chicago—after being named the city’s Youth Poet Laureate last September. Inspired by poets like Gwendolyn Brooks and Safia Elhillo and her activism work with Assata’s Daughters—an intergenerational collective based in Washington Park that organizes actions around the city—Frazier’s first book of poetry, GRAPHITE, will be out this September via Haymarket Books. In a conversation with Dave Stieber, Frazier talks about the intersection of her literary and organizing work. This interview was produced by Erisa Apantaku and has been edited for length and clarity. To read excerpts from the interview, visit https://southsideweekly.com/national-youth-poet-laureate-pat-frazier-intersection-poetry-activism/ The bumper at the beginning featured Chicago scholar, artist, and activist Eve Ewing and was produced by Jed Lickerman. For more news, visit www.southsideweekly.com.

Zack speaks with us about coming out and his understanding of masculinity early on in life, while also developing his understanding of the Bible as a student of theology. After finding a spiritual home in the Church of Christ, Zack aims to help others who struggle to reconcile faith with sexuality. A musician at heart, he also shares with us about how he expresses himself on this journey of self-discovery. A Note for Children and Parents of Children: We discuss some adult situations in this episode, which you can skip by jumping ahead to minute 8:15. In our conversation, Zack mentioned these authors and poets: God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines (@VinesMatthew) "Against Dying"and "What Seems Like Joy"by Iranian-American poet, Kaveh Akbar (@kavehakbar) "How to Say"by Safia Elhillo (@mafiasafia) who gave us this quote during the show: "How dare I love a word without knowing it in Arabic." And be sure to follow Zack @zackleston on Instagram. Out Loud is a podcast by and for queer people of faith in the South. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram, and join our mailing list for updates. Support the show financially by becoming a Patreon member and receive exclusive content and merchandise. Music: Acoustic Meditation 2 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

On the fifth episode of "From the Catbird Seat," Rob Casper goes behind the scenes with Ghanaian poet and editor Kwame Dawes about the February 2017 "Conversations with African Poets and Writers: African Poetry Book Fund Spotlight" event at the Library of Congress. Dawes discussess the formation of the African Poetry Book Fund, an organization that promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts of Africa, and then we'll listen to event clips featuring African Book Fund editorial board members Chris Abani, Matthew Shenoda, and Aracelis Girmay; and poets Chekube O. Danladi, Safia Elhillo, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, and Hope Wabuke.

Safia Elhillo is a goshdarn timespace-suspending poet. She’s also this week’s guest. Danez, Franny, and Safia talk unraveling shame, opening the door to a queer Muslim literary community, caesuras and contrapunctals, and much much more!

Connor and Jack explore the fantastic poem "First Quarantine With Abdelhalim Hafez" by Safia Elhillo. Connor fixates on the tensions between the figurative and literal and Jack goes deep on his and the poem's obsessions, and also pulls off a Werner Herzog impression. Check out the poem below, or at this link: https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/own_words/African_poets_tatu/ Read more about Safia Elhillo here: http://safia-mafia.com/bio Listen to the full Abdelhalim Hafez song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro_peC026lE Read the referenced interview with Elhillo here: http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/unapologetic-black-muslim-sudanese-american-an-interview-with-safia-elhillo/ Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at closetalkingpoetry@gmail.com. First Quarantine With Abdelhalim Hafez by Safia Elhillo & maybe it is too easy to blame mortality on our capacity for love the slow death that is putting your breath in another's body trusting your name in another mouth but maybe it is smaller say water sweat yes tears yes but also the nile as a vein between our two home countries washing the red dust from my feet yes cooling the sear of a blood-orange sun yes but also killing you the way only foul water can kill & i do know how it is to be young & always sick at the mercy of something meant to immortalize us the slow finish is in my heart its syrup trickle & i don't mean love i mean my wet crooked actual heart

We continue discussing listener recommended poetry. This time, all three poems are performed live, links below. That’s right, we’re talking spoken word! (Don’t worry, Tod refrains from poet voice.) Get ready to snap your fingers and bang your bongos. Or not. Because, you know, it’s not the 1960s…   Kate Tempest, Tunnel Vision, recommended by listener Jenny Colvin. Safia Elhillo, Alien Suite, also from Jenny Colvin. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Dig Those Sunsets, Pony, recommended by Deej Siminoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In celebration of our 100th episode we gave over our microphones to the wonderful Octavia Collective, a collective for women writers of colour based at the Southbank Centre in London. Collective director Rachel Long invited members Sunayana Bhargava and Tania Nwachukwu to respond to the works of both June Jordan and Safia Elhillo. As well as reading their response poems the trio discuss the impact and influence of June and Safia along with whether there needs to be established a separate canon for writers of colour or if the established poetry canon needs to do more to acknowledge the work of writers of colour. A transcript of this conversation can be downloaded here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-100-octavia-collective-lpp-transcript.pdf For more info: https://writesrachell.com/ https://twitter.com/gwehgweh?lang=en https://twitter.com/sunayanab?lang=en

Safia Elhillo is a badass and poet of Sudanese origin who manages the space between her words with fearless grace. She's in town for Halal if You Hear Me, a special event for Louder Than A Bomb that shares its name with the anthology of which she is co-editor with AirGo alum Fati Asghar. If you have any questions about Ja Rule and Ashanti, she is your go-to person. Her first book, The January Children, is available now. Recorded live 3/9/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: If (Instrumental) - @Oddiseemusic

Welcome to Episode 15 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we answer your questions! We had a raucous time answering your questions about what to do when event organizers misidentify you as a slam poet, we talk about our influences as poets and writers, how we try to cultivate joy and love in our communities, talk about gatekeeping and answer a v important question from Safia Elhillo. We had so many questions that we could not answer all of them. Fret not! We will do a part two of this episode where we finish answering your questions in the near future! As always you can reach us at emailthepoetrygods@gmail.com. Special Reminder: We are looking to book shows for Fall 2016 & Winter 2017. Bring The Poetry Gods to your campus! We would love to do a live show at your university! Follow The Poetry Gods on all social media: @jayohessee, @azizabarnes, @iamjonsands, @thepoetrygods & CHECK OUR WEBSITE: thepoetrygods.com/ (much thanks to José Ortiz for designing the website! shouts to Jess X Chen for making our logo)

Welcome to Episode 12 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Safia Elhillo about her writing journey & much more. As always, you can reach us at emailthepoetrygods@gmail.com. We are looking to book shows for Fall 2016. Bring The Poetry gods to your campus! SAFIA ELHILLO BIO: Safia Elhillo's first full-length collection, The January Children, is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in 2017. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, a Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor at Kinfolks Quarterly: a journal of black expression, she received an MFA in poetry at the New School. Safia is a Pushcart Prize nominee, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel University African Poetry Prize, and winner of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. In addition to appearing in several journals and anthologies including “The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop,” her work has been translated into Arabic and Greek. Safia has performed at venues such as TEDxNewYork, the South African State Theatre, the New Amsterdam Theater on Broadway, and TV1's Verses & Flow. She was a founding member of Slam NYU, the 2012 and 2013 national collegiate championship team, and was a three-time member and former coach of the DC Youth Slam Poetry team. She is currently a teaching artist with Split This Rock. Follow Safia Elhillo on twitter: @mafiasafia on instagram: @safiamafia Follow The Poetry Gods on all social media: @jayohessee, @azizabarnes, @iamjonsands, @thepoetrygods & CHECK OUR WEBSITE: thepoetrygods.com/ (much thanks to José Ortiz for designing the website! shouts to Jess X Chen for making our logo)

Yes, it's a been a tough, tough year. I'm feeling it. We're all feeling it. But… all that bad news is not the totality of life. With this being the holiday season, this rabble radio show is the “Light the Fire, Pour the Eggnog and Think Philosophically For a While” edition. We thought it would be a good time to play some of the hidden gems that have shown up on the rpn this year. So go get that eggnog, light the fire and just enjoy being here with us for the next half hour. Season's Greetings. We've had some really great new podcasts this summer and fall on the RPN. One of them is MsRepresent: Behind the Face, a Fierce Woman by Charlene Sayo of Vancouver. Charlene spent some time in the Big Apple where she had the amazing opportunity to hang out with super fierce women in the arts and activism. One of the women she met up with was Safia Elhillo. Safia is Sudanese by way of Washington, D.C., currently living in New York City. Among her many literary credits, she is a founding member of Slam NYU, the 2012 and 2013 national collegiate championship team, and was a three-time member and former coach of the DC Youth Slam Poetry team. We don't get enough documentaries on the rabble podcast network. And sound documentaries are such a wonderful art form. That's one of our goals for the new year. Our next piece is a treasure. The Swan Song is an eclectic podcast that covers a wide range of topics about the human condition. David Swanson, the show's producer, recently did a documentary called The Latvian Art Diaries, based on an exploration of heritage through sound. Here is an excerpt of this excellent sound work. And finally, to wrap up. We like sound that is collected in adventurous places. This next excerpt was first played on Lynn Thompson's Living on Purpose, one of the longest running podcasts we have on the rabble podcast network. In this next piece, Lynn goes travelling deep underground with Jamie Thompson and his flute. Jamie is a Toronto musician who takes his flute to some unusual places: abandoned buildings, under bridges with traffic roaring above, ravines and haunted houses. In this excerpt, we go deep into the Diefenbunker, the cold war bomb shelter near Ottawa that was intended to be the residence of John Diefenbaker's Conservative government if the bomb fell… But the bomb didn't fall. And we're here to see another New Year. Happy 2015! Photo: sbluerock/flickr