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Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas. The in-person show is the second Wednesday of every month in the Wild Detectives backyard. We love our podcast fans, so we release recordings of the live performances every month for y'all! On Friday 2/21/25, we featured poet Rachel Richardson to launch her newest collection, Smother (W. W. Norton, 2025), joined by Dallas poets Nomi Stone and Tarfia Faizullah.Rachel Richardson is the author of Smother, just out from W. W. Norton, and two previous books of poems, Copperhead and Hundred-Year Wave, from the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and an NEA Fellow, and her poems have appeared in the New York Times, APR, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the Bay Area and teaches in the MFA program at St. Mary's College of California. She is also currently in training as a wildland firefighter.Poet and anthropologist Nomi Stone is the author of three books, most recently the poetry collection Kill Class (Tupelo, 2019), finalist for the Julie Suk Award, and the ethnography Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire, first prize in the Middle East Studies Award from the American Anthropological Association and three other national prizes. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Stone's poems recently appear in The Atlantic, The Nation, Best American Poetry, POETRY Magazine, and American Poetry Review. Stone was most recently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology at Princeton and she is currently an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Texas, Dallas.Tarfia Faizullah writes books and teaches poetry at UNT.⁠www.innermoonlightpoetry.com

We are stoked to present this bonus episode of the Inner Moonlight podcast featuring our event for the Wild Detectives Tenth Anniversary celebration on 4/21/24. We collaborated with storytelling event Talking Dirty After Dark for a super fun show we called Dirty Moonlight. You'll hear superb poets previously featured on Inner Moonlight alongside storytellers selected by Talking Dirty curator Raymond Butler. This show also includes a poem by Inner Moonlight curator Logen Cure. Listeners be aware this episode includes colorful language and sensitive content. Happy anniversary to the Wild Detectives! Cheers to many more! Performers in this episode: 1. Tarfia Faizullah (poet) 2. Klia Brown (storyteller) 3. Emma Ramsey (poet) 4. Cameron Barnes (storyteller) 5. Afeefah Khazi-Syed (poet) 6. Raymond Butler (storyteller, Talking Dirty curator) 7. Lisa Huffaker (poet) 8. Deante Toombs (storyteller) 9. Logen Cure (poet, Inner Moonlight curator) www.thewilddetectives.com www.talkingdirtyevents.com www.innermoonlightpoetry.com

Recorded by Tarfia Faizullah for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 1, 2023. www.poets.org

We are enswirled in this episode, Slushies, enswirled! We discuss three poems by John Sibley Willliams, two of which are ghazals. Williams' poems are the gravitational force around which our conversation about craft, form, fluidity, identity, and the flux and spaciousness found inside poetry spirals. Williams' poems draw the swirl of our attention not only to the choices he makes on the page but to Agha Shahad Ali's rules for real ghazals, Williams' poetic conversation with Tarfia Faizullah, and his nod to Kavek Akbar's “Gloves”. There is a pun these show notes want to make about guzzling ghazals, Slushies, but we are trying hard to resist it…    At the table: Marion Wrenn, Jason Schneiderman, Kathleen Volk Miller, Dagne Forrest, Samantha Neugebauer    This episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, Wilbur Records, who kindly introduced us to the artist  A.M.Mills, whose song “Spaghetti with Loretta” now opens our show.       John Sibley Williams is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Poetry Award) and The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award). He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review, Poetry Editor at Kelson Books, and founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner, twin biracial six-year-olds (one of whom is beautifully transgender), a boisterous Boston Terrier, and a basement full of horror movie memorabilia.    Author website, Facebook @ john.sibleywilliams    Ghazal for Transparency / for Reflection     My ghosts breathe accusingly—a winter mass, a mirror's impermanent  erasure—again shaving I'm sorry from the face over my face in the glass.     It's not just the birds—their abridged flight, the stains the sky wears today  through this washable window—but my children's tiny hands absolving the glass.     Of guilt? Of shame? Is it his blood raging generations through my veins or this white-  washed silence compelling me to pull our history, face-by-face, from its frames of glass?     All this uneaten grain filling silo after silo—always at dusk, in my mind—swarmed now  with mealworms & mites & someone else's hunger. How it cuts the tongue like shards of glass.     & those goddamned honeycombs, failing again. How our neighbor's unable to keep his bees close enough to cultivate. Our house too is a small box of dust & wing & against the glass     separating us from the world curtains blur our reflections like rain. Like stars cutting through cloud, a sustainable song. May my girls never be dead enough to fear themselves in our glass.       Ghazal Beginning & Ending with Lines from Tarfia Faizullah     Let me break free from these lace-frail microscopic bodies.  My breath (always shared); trace it back to unmasked foreign bodies.     Taking that last winter deep into her lungs. Breathe, I remind her.  & remember me a child, Mom, not this unrecognizable foreign body.     The sky's aperture widens. Sight ≠ witness. The organ's rusty song catches  in the rafters (unascended). & all this rain leaking down on us like foreign bodies.     Grey fox. White cells. Families fleeing one home for (hopes of) another.  Some borders, perhaps, are meant to be trespassed by unforeign bodies.    Row after perfect row = harvest. Harvest ≠ everyone is fed. Sated. Breaking  up from the earth beneath, star thistle & bindweed. To us, foreign bodies.     The day an autumn orphan, & we're yanking roots. My daughter's tiny  misgendered fingers in mine, (pulling. Together), no body is foreign.        Field of Anchors                      —   for Kaveh Akbar     Darkness on both sides.  & wild grasses. Sun-hurt.  Browning. So as not to drift.  Too far from shore. A man.  Palms the tiny church inside.  The warm casing. Inside a god.  Prays to another god. For more.  Of himself. More devotion.  One more detonation. Of roses.  Less blood next time. Less field.  Without end. Or is it more.  That's required to make a mirror.  Of each window. All that untilled light.  All that goddamn reflection.  The old maple out back. No longer.  A noose swinging from it. Lifts its arms.  In praise of its leaves. Fallen & otherwise.  Only a god. My grandmother promised.  Can beat the trees. Of its birds. Can lullaby.  The field into paradise. Only fear can.  Halleluiah the anchors from their green.  Deerless. Wolf-filled. Moorings. Or is it.  Love. When I open the front gate. Rusting.  Still. Despite drought. Despite me. I hear.  My children playing with. The blood inside.  The roses. Inside the bullet. An impossible anchor.  A darkness. That gives a people. Its name. 

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas. We make poetry magic on the second Wednesday of every month. We have returned to the Wild Detectives in person, but fret not, podcast fans! We will be releasing recordings of the live show every month for y'all. On 12/14/22, we featured poet Tarfia Fauzullah. Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Seam (SIU 2014) and Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf 2018). Her poems have appeared widely both here and abroad, and have been translated into several languages. In 2016, Tarfia was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change. Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/ www.logencure.com/innermoonlight

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Tarfia Faizullah. She is the author of two poetry collections, REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf, 2018) and SEAM (SIU, 2014). Tarfia's writing appears widely in the U.S. and abroad in the Daily Star, Hindu Business Line, BuzzFeed, PBS News Hour, Huffington Post, Poetry Magazine, Ms. Magazine, the Academy of American Poets, Oxford American, the New Republic, the Nation, Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket, 2019), and has been displayed at the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art, and elsewhere. Tarfia's writing is translated into Bengali, Persian, Chinese, and Tamil, and is part of the theater production Birangona: Women of War. Tarfia's collaborations include photographers, producers, composers, filmmakers, musicians, and visual artists, resulting in several interdisciplinary projects, including an EP, Eat More Mango. SourceThis episode includes a reading of her poem, “Self-Portrait as Slinky”, featured in our 2022 Get Lit Anthology.“Self-Portrait as Slinky”It's true I wanted             to be beautiful before                         authentic. Say the word                                      exotic. Say minority— a coiled, dark curl            a finger might wrap                         itself in—the long                                    staircase, and I was the momentum           of metal springs                       descending down                                    and down,a tension —the long staircase,            and I was a stacked series                       of spheres finger-tipped                                   again into motion—say taut, like a child            who must please                        the elders and doesn't                                     know how, a curl pulled thin. I wanted to be            a reckoning, to tornado                       into each day's hard                                   hands, that wanton lurching forward            in the dark, another                        soaked black ringlet,                                    that sudden haltingSupport the show

Join Maya Marshall and special guests for a celebration of her new book All the Blood Involved in Love. All the Blood Involved in Love is an urgent and evocative collection—featuring complex and compelling poems about the choices we make surrounding home, freedom, healing, partnership, and family. In a moment of critical struggle for reproductive justice, Maya Marshall's haunting debut meditates on womanhood—with and without motherhood. Traversing familial mythography with an unflinching seriousness, Marshall moves deftly between contemporary politics, the stakes of race and interracial partnership, and the monetary, mental, and physical costs of adopting or birthing a Black child. Get All the Blood Involved in Love from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1884-all-the-blood-involved-in-love --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Maya Marshall, a writer and editor, is cofounder of underbellymag.com, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. As an educator, Marshall has taught at Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago. She holds fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, The Watering Hole, Community of Writers, and Cave Canem. She is the author of Secondhand (Dancing Girl Press, 2016). Her writing appears in Best New Poets 2019, Muzzle, RHINO, Potomac Review, Blackbird, and elsewhere. All the Blood Involved in Love is Marshall's debut poetry collection with Haymarket Books. Destiny O. Birdsong is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, African American Review, and Catapult, among other publications. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published in 2020 by Tin House and was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award. Her debut novel, Nobody's Magic, was published in February 2022 from Grand Central Publishing. Tarfia Faizullah was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Texas. She is the author of Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf Press, 2018) and Seam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014). She lives in Dallas, Texas. Aricka Foreman is an American poet and interdisciplinary writer from Detroit, MI. She is the author of the chapbook Dream with a Glass Chamber, and Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books) winner of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. She has earned fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Millay Colony. Aricka lives in Chicago and works as a publicist at Haymarket Books. Nicole Homer is an Associate Professor of English at a community college in Central New Jersey. They are a poet, writer, and performer whose work can be found in the American Academy of Poets Poem-a-Day, Muzzle, The Offing, Rattle, The Collagist and elsewhere. A fellow of The Watering Hole, Callaloo and VONA, Nicole serves as a Contributing Editor at BlackNerdProblems writing pop culture critique through a POC lens. Their award-winning collection, Pecking Order (Write Bloody) is an unflinching look at how race and gender politics play out in the domestic sphere. Natasha Oladokun (she/her) is a poet and essayist. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Jackson Center for Creative Writing, Twelve Literary Arts, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the inaugural First Wave Poetry fellow. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review Online, and Kenyon Review Online. You can read her column The PettyCoat Chronicles—on pop culture and period dramas—at Catapult. She is Associate Poetry Editor at storySouth, and currently lives in Madison, WI. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/qFVhGJYqI98 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Recorded by Tarfia Faizullah for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 16, 2022. www.poets.org

Hosted by Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin, The BreakBeat Poets Live is a virtual, multi-generational showcase of some of the illest writers on the planet rock. Each chapter features writers and performers who are part of the Haymarket Books family. --- Kevin Coval is a poet and author of A People's History of Chicago and over ten other collections, anthologies, and chapbooks. ​He is the founder and editor of the BreakBeat Poets series for Haymarket Books, artistic director for Young Chicago Authors, and the founder of Louder than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival. --- Idris Goodwin is the playwright, producer, educator, who coined the term “breakbeat poet.” He is the author of Can I Kick It? and the Pushcart–nominated collection These Are the Breaks. His publications also include Inauguration, cowritten with Nico Wilkinson, and Human Highlight: An Ode to Dominique Wilkins and This Is Modern Art, both cowritten with Kevin Coval. --- Comprised of two gifted musicians, The O'My's channel their experiences and perspective into gritty, polished music that grabs listeners with its sound, and holds them with its content. Nick Hennessey and Maceo Vidal-Haymes, two Chicago natives, man the keys and guitar respectively, with Maceo handling vocal duties. --- Penelope Alegria is the Chicago Youth Poet Laureate for 2019-2020 and a two-time member of Young Chicago Authors' artistic apprenticeship. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in La Nueva Semana, Muse/A Journal, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT, and elsewhere. She is a Brain Mill Press Editor's Pick and was awarded the 2018 Literary Award by Julian Randall. --- Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf 2018) and Seam (SIU 2014). The recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, three Pushcart prizes, and other honors, Tarfia has been featured in periodicals, magazines, and anthologies both here and abroad. --- Krista Franklin is a writer and visual artist, the author Too Much Midnight (Haymarket Books, 2020), the artist book Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018), and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body (Willow Books, 2012). She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, and a frequent contributor to the projects of fellow artists. Her visual art has exhibited at Poetry Foundation, Konsthall C, Rootwork Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Studio Museum in Harlem, Chicago Cultural Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, and the set of20th Century Fox's Empire. --- chicago born and raised, roy kinsey is a bit of an anomaly when it comes to tradition in his respective industries. where being a black, queer-identified, rapper, and librarian may be an intimidating choice for some, roy kinsey's non-conformist ideology has informed his 4th album, and self proclaimed, “best work yet,” blackie: a story by roy kinsey. --- Willie Perdomo is the author of The Crazy Bunch, which recently won the New York City Book Award for poetry, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Smoking Lovely, winner of the PEN Open Book Award, and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. He is also a co-editor of the BreakBeat Poetry Series anthology, LatiNext. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/BbAovRbt6Zw Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Recorded by Tarfia Faizullah for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 27, 2021. www.poets.org

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Registers of Illuminated Villages (2018) and Seam (2014). Faizullah has won a VIDA Award, a GLCA New Writers’ Award, a Milton Kessler First Book Award, Drake University Emerging Writer Award and other honors. Her poems have been published widely in periodicals and anthologies both in the United States and abroad, including Poetry Magazine, Guernica, Tin House and The Nation. They are translated into Persian, Chinese, Bengali, Tamil and Spanish, and have been featured at the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art and elsewhere. In 2016, she was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change. In Fall 2018, she joined the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Visiting Writer in Residence.Faizullah read her poetry on March 7, 2019, at Lunch Poems, an ongoing poetry reading series at UC Berkeley that began in 2014. All readings happen from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month in Morrison Library in Doe Library. Admission is free.This talk was recorded by UC Berkeley’s Educational Technology Services. Watch the video.Read the transcript on Berkeley News. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Need a break from the hectic holiday season? Look no further than this poetry-packed episode of SHELF TALKING! Recorded live at Literati: –Phillip Crymble reads from his debut volume Not Even Laughter. –Susanna Lang shares work from her latest book Travel Notes from the River Styx. –Will Walton reads selections from his YA novel I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain. –Tarfia Faizullah reads poems from her sophomore collection Registers of Illuminated Villages. Shelf Talking is produced by Mike and Hilary Gustafson with John Ganiard, Matthew Flores, and Sam Krowchenko Our theme songs are “Orange and Red” and "Bonhomie" by Pity Sex (2016, Run for Cover Records)

The editors discuss Tarfia Faizullah’s poem “Yr Not Exotic, But Once Ya Wanted to Be” from the December 2018 issue of Poetry.

Poet and novelist Carrie Fountain talks with poet Tarfia Faizullah about, growing up in Texas, her first memories of writing poetry, and how the loss of her sister in a car accident influenced her poem “West Texas Nocturne.”

Poet and novelist Carrie Fountain talks with poet Tarfia Faizullah about, growing up in Texas, her first memories of writing poetry, and how the loss of her sister in a car accident influenced her poem “West Texas Nocturne.”

Poet and novelist Carrie Fountain talks with poet Tarfia Faizullah about, growing up in Texas, her first memories of writing poetry, and how the loss of her sister in a car accident influenced her poem “West Texas Nocturne.”

David sits down with poet Tarfia Faizullah to talk about her latest book, REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES. Originally aired on July 19th 2018.

We’re back, baby! We kick off season 2 of VS with brilliant poet Tarfia Faizullah for a helluva convo about balancing the beautiful and the grotesque, finding silliness, and much more! Listen and subscribe now for a whole upcoming season of goodness!

Two archival poems by Langston Hughes; a craft essay on fiction and technology by Tayari Jones; and poetry readings by Tarfia Faizullah, David Tomas Martinez, and 2017 New Jersey Poetry Out Loud champion Amos Koffa.

Poet Tarfia Faizullah joins us to discuss the ethics of poetry and her new book, Seam. Friend of the podcast and poet Joe Heithaus interviews Tarfia. The post What Good Is Poetry? with Tarfia Faizullah appeared first on Prindle Institute.

Poet Tarfia Faizullah joins us to discuss the ethics of poetry and her new book, Seam. Friend of the podcast and poet Joe Heithaus interviews Tarfia. The post What Good Is Poetry? with Tarfia Faizullah appeared first on Prindle Institute.

May 21, 2014. Bangladeshi-American poet Tarfia Faizullah read from and discussed her first collection of poetry, "Seam," which explores the history of the Birangona, Bangladeshi women raped by Pakistani soldiers during the Liberation War of 1971, and the ethics of interviewing. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6522