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Poetry Reading by Tarfia Faizullah
For her first book of poetry, Seam, Tarfia Faizullah lived in Dhaka on a Fulbright fellowship, where she interviewed women rape survivors of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. The nine-month war had between 300,000 to 3 million dead and between 200,000 and 400,000 victims of mass rape. Faizullah’s work led Harvard Law School to name her to its 2016 list of “50 Women Inspiring Change.” Her second book, Registers of Illuminated Villages, is more personal, focusing on questions of identity and living between cultures. Her parents are Bangladeshi immigrants, and she grew up in Texas. Yet, in this book, also, violence and war creep in and cast a shadow. In the poem “Register of Eliminated Villages,” the speaker’s night is interrupted by “a register which lists 397 eliminated villages, Kurdish villages in Northern Iraq.” Faizullah was the judge of Nimrod’s 2023 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.
This event is sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing at The University of Tulsa and Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry.
