…and post-modern traditions—one that is historically grounded, politically active, and aesthetically fluent. Tarfia Faizullah’s “Self-Portrait as Mango,” which appeared in Ploughshares in 2016, is a ghazal whose political and aesthetic urgencies push…
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Front Cover by Whitfield Lovell Kin VI (Nobody), 2008 CONTÉ CRAYON ON PAPER WITH ATTACHED WOODEN CHAIN 30 X 22 1/2 X 7/8 “HEAVE THE LOG!” Though the origins of…
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…Tarfia Faizullah, Ocean Vuong, Chloe Honum, and honestly so many more. Not to mention all of the writer friends with whom I grew up and matured. All of them have…
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…K. Smith, Fatimah Asghar, Tarfia Faizullah, Jenny Xie, Craig Santos Perez, Safia Elhillo, Joan Kane, and Abigail Chabitnoy. Also, although not a poetry collection, the book most influential to my…
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…leave disgusted. It’s that serious for me. Who typically gets the first read of your work? My friend, and poets, Tarfia Faizullah and Scheherazade Washington Parrish get an earful when…
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…Rider’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Tarfia Faizullah’s Seam, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, Layli Long Soldier, Cathy Park Hong, Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals, Toni Morrison, Ali Wong’s first special Baby Cobra, Nam Le’s short story…
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…“Trust Exercise,” because like the novel’s main characters, I also went to a public magnet high school. For poetry, I recently finished Tarfia Faizullah’s “Registers of Illuminated Villages,” and I…
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…writer(s) or works have influenced the way you write now? Recently: Jennifer Chang, Ada Limon, Jericho Brown, Tarfia Faizullah, Alina Pleskova, Bianca Stone. Historically: Anne Sexton, Lynda Hull, Robert Lowell,…
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