Poet: Tarfia Faizullah

Two poems by Tarfia Faizullah

29 June, 2016 by Dave Bonta - 2 Comments - Posted in Author-made videopoems
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This video produced for Voluble incorporates two stylistically distinct, musically compelling video remixes for poems by Tarfia Faizullah, “Feast or Famine” and “Love Poem Ending with the Eye of a Needle.” Faizullah notes in a YouTube comment that

this was a result of a collaboration between me, emcee and producer Brooklyn Shanti, and tabla player and activist Robin Sukhadia. The film for the second poem is sampled from Sita Sings the Blues, an animated film that the director made available through Creative Commons. The footage for the first is tourist footage of Bangladesh.

Elegy with Her Red-Tipped Fingers by Tarfia Faizullah

20 May, 2013 by Dave Bonta - 1 Comment - Posted in Performance Poetry
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A high-quality, music video-style poetry film by poet and filmmaker Jamaal May for Organic Weapon Arts, whose chapbook series “was started with the hip-hop tradition of the mixtape in mind.” Tarfia Faizullah‘s poem may be read online in Blackbird.