What is Words and Shit? It is poems, conversations, insight, wisdom, stories, recollection, advice, basically a lot of words and shit with stage and page poets from all across the country! Get to know your favorite poets and discover some new ones as we talk about their craft, their careers, and whatever else they care about. Brought to you by Write Art Out. Stay updated and follow @wordsandsh on IG.
Tariq Luthun is a Detroit-born, Dearborn-raised community organizer, data consultant, and Emmy Award-winning poet. The son of Palestinian Muslim immigrants from Gaza, he is a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellow that earned his MFA in Poetry from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Luthun’s work has earned him such honors as being named Best of the Net, in addition to fellowships through Kundiman, The Watering Hole, and the Kresge Foundation. His work has appeared in Vinyl Poetry, Lit Hub, Mizna, and Button Poetry, among others. He also serves as a board member The Offing Literary Magazine. Luthun’s first collection of poetry, How The Water Holds Me, was awarded Editors' Selection by Bull City Press and is available now.
30 Aug 2024
Ayokunle Falomo
AYOKUNLE FALOMO is Nigerian, American, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books, 2024), AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press, 2022), two self-published col-lections and African, American (New Delta Review, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry, his work has been anthologized and widely published.
23 Aug 2024
Geramee Hensley
A writer from Ohio, they are Social Media Manager for The Kenyon Review and Poetry Editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Their work has been featured in Button Poetry, Indiana Review, The Journal, The Margins, The Recluse, and elsewhere. They’ve received numerous awards, most recently, second place winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2023 Hurt and Healing Prize, a 2022 Academy of American Poets Prize and Booth Journal’s 2022 Beyond the Margins contest prize, and their work has been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop.
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