Radical Poetry Reading with Tarik Dobbs

Arab American queer writer & text artist Tarik Dobbs was born in Dearborn, Michigan, on stolen land of the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi people. Dobbs’s poems appear in American Poetry Review, Best of the Net, Poetry Magazine, and his debut chapbook Dancing on the Tarmac (Yemassee, 2021) was selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi as the winner of the 2020 Yemassee Journal Poetry Chapbook Contest. Dobbs is an Editor for Poetry Online and an Assistant Editor for Great River Review.

Writer Steven Duong is an incoming MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems and stories can be found in Guernica, Catapult, AGNI, and other venues. He is from San Diego. Find more of his work here →

Poet and journalist Sara Elkamel is the author of the chapbook “Field of No Justice” (African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books, 2021). Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Yale Review, Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Poet Lore, Poetry London, Best New Poets 2020, Best of the Net 2020, among others. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from New York University. She lives between her hometown Cairo and NYC.

Transgender cripple-punk torrin a. greathouse is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. Her work is published in POETRY, Ploughshares, New England Review, and The Kenyon Review. They are a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and have also received fellowships from the Effing Foundation for Sex Positivity, Zoeglossia, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is the author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions 2020).