Poet & financial analyst Farah Ghafoor, my FINAL Season 9 guest!

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I’ve long been a fan of Toronto-based Pakistani poet Farah Ghafoor and was grateful to have the opportunity to speak to her about her utterly devastating debut collection SHADOW PRICE– out on April 1, 2025 from House of Anansi Press!

Topics include the challenges of writing and marketing such a book, the impact of economic theory, the critical role of poetry in addressing societal issues under capitalism, & Farah’s future projects!

SHADOW PRICE is available for preorder/purchase here!

Interested in being a future featured guest? Let me know!

Poet & photographer Nadia Alexis, my next Season 9 guest!

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I recently enjoyed a lovely conversation with Haitian American (and now, fellow Mississippian!) poet Nadia Alexis!

Topics include the MFA and PhD at Ole Miss, the poetry faculty at Ole Miss, water & flight imagery, intersections of poetry and photography, a charmed submission experience, the effort of marketing and promoting poetry, & the promising future of young Mississippi writers!

BEYOND THE WATERSHED is available for preorder/purchase here!

Interested in being a future featured guest? Let me know!

Poet, Editor, & Literary Translator CD Eskilson, my next Season 9 guest!

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I had such a great time catching up with CD Eskilson, dear old friend and fellow Arkansas MFA, ahead of the release of their debut collection SCREAM/QUEEN!

Join us as CD shares some truly fascinating things about horror films and poetry, and I probably go on for too long about Edgar Allan Poe.

SCREAM/QUEEN is available for preorder/purchase here!

Interested in being a future featured guest? Let me know!

Poet & scholar Rawand Mustafa, my first guest of 2025!

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I had such a lovely, restorative conversation with Rawand Mustafa, the 2024 winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press– and our first featured guest of 2025!

This episode was co-hosted by Kathleen Sullivan, Arkansas MFA candidate in literary translation, translation editor of The Arkansas International, director of Arkansas’ Writers in the Schools program, and dear friend!

UMBILICAL DISCORD is available for purchase here from the University of Arkansas Press!

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I recently received an Artists 360 community activator grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance!

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Photo Credit: Stephen Ironside, Iron Lotus Creative.


I look forward to using the funding and opportunity to further expand and develop Tightwires, which has long been a labor of love!

Artists 360 is a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance that elevates talented artists of all disciplines in Northwest Arkansas by providing practice-based grant funding and professional development opportunities.

You can learn more about all of the grantees and the program here.

You can read more about my work here.

Thank you to #MidAmericaArtsAlliance, #Artists360, and the Walton Family Foundation!

Artists 360, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, is made possible through philanthropic support from the Walton Family Foundation.