SIDEWAYS EIGHT PROJECTS

PERSONAL WEBSITE:

Source:

https://www.fariharoisin.com/

Excerpts:

Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, degrowth and queer identities and has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, Village Voice, and others. 

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Róisín has published a book of poetry entitled How To Cure A Ghost (Abrams), a journal called Being In Your Body (Abrams), and a novel named Like A Bird (Unnamed Press) which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR, Globe and Mail, Harper’s Bazaar, a must-read by Buzzfeed News and received a starred review by the Library Journal. Upon the book’s release, she was also profiled in The New York Times. Her first work of non-fiction Who Is Wellness For? An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind (HarperWave) was released in 2022, and her second book of poetry Survival Takes A Wild Imagination came out Fall of 2023.

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INFORMATIVE LINKS:

Fariha Róisín on the Healing Power of Poetry

https://www.vogue.com/article/fariha-roisin-interview-how-to-cure-a-ghost

Substack: Fariha Róisín

https://substack.com/@fariharoisin

Reading and conversation with Fariha Róisín

https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=Fariha%20R%C3%B3is%C3%ADn&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e710b7fd,vid:PlNtFykYsyE,st:0

Fariha Róisín Article

https://gossamer.co/blogs/conversations/fariha-roisin

(Duration 36min.31min.)

The Sound Bath Podcast: Who Is Wellness For? with Fariha Róisín

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SHORTER VIDEOS

(Duration 2min. 10sec.)

Fariha Róisín turns personal trauma into narratives of cultural resistance

(Duration 9min.)

Artist Shirin Neshat in Conversation with Fariha Róisin at NeueHouse

(Duration 22min.28sec.)

The Necessity of Healing Through Poetry with Fariha Róisín

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Fariha Róisín Poetry in Acacia Magazine

1st Issue

https://www.acaciamag.com/articles/deep-ecology

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This study is not meant to serve as an exhaustive account of this amazing writer’s work. It is meant to serve as a sample platter which will encourage others to seek out more for themselves in their own time. Please visit the personal website above to further support Fariha Róisín’s body of work. You will be happy you did.

Poetic Novelist and Author of “Heaven’s Clouded Mind” and “Love’s Ideology”

Book Overview

Heaven’s Clouded Mind is a poetry book meant to be read from cover to cover as you explore the journey through the growth of my mind.

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https://linktr.ee/ThatsGoddessToYou

jerrellweatherbee@gmail.com

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Excerpts from:

Love’s Ideology

By Jerrell Weatherbee

Unicycle

“he knew best how to mold the clay that housed my dreams”

“because life is a run on sentence

wild animals caged in the margins of norm”

Disaster

after all; how long does it take an ocean to turn a mountain into a beach;

I finally became strong enough to move that mountain but now the sand is what I drown in

Childish Dreams

We all create dreams big enough to block the sun from our own shine

but a hero that’s able to save the world

must first be able to save himself

Man’s Man ***

LOVE THIS POEM

Fictitious

innocent minds are forced to adapt

to whatever exposure of existence

that it inherits;

life molests all of its offspring

Love Struck

but men build homes

To hide their insecurities in security;

sheltering a mind full of mysteries

haunted by the judgment;

banging gavels on the front door

to unhinge me;

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so blinded by bright auras

of the love she embodied

that when she left;

I was forced to rediscover

my fears of the dark;

or of myself

Acceptance

but if we are in her image

then we are all artificial

Momo

because low hanging fruit was always dangerous since everyone

could easily touch it;

NJ TWERK PART 2

people were more than willing to

toss pretty pennies as a token to well wishes

granting them access to lay a hand on her canvas

then having to come home

and raise her son to be the man

she thought his father was

Cloth

then I’ve earned these scars;

they prophesize stories of my weakness

and it wasn’t until I stopped trying to hide them

that I found my strength

SELF ESTEEM ***

LOVE THIS POEM

Definition

creating the texture of the space silence will haunt;

that’s why the traumatized become so infatuated with the noise of motion;

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Belchee Part 2

I always took abandonment lightly

nobody could ever leave me

the way I left myself

Life Lines ***

LOVE THIS POEM

Entitlement

and still I chose to reach for her

as if it was the handle on myself;

which kind of makes me wonder

who really casted the first stone

REAL ASSERTIVE THOROUGH

you ever meet someone

so authentic it makes you question

if anything in your past was real?

Fate Struggle Helpless

she got convicted

but I had to serve the time

Please follow on IG:

@bearinglovesap

@sap_nation_llc

Oh Bubba,

We love you.

Wake Up Nevada

“There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.” — Rumi

“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

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“No one is immune from substances or mental health issues. And we need to talk about it. We need to talk about losing our children and our family members to it so that others know it’s okay and that it happens and to end the stigma because, the only way we end it is by talking about it and talking about prevention and really supporting others who are in our spot. So,  if you need to reach out to me, do that, I’m here.” 

From:

http://www.ourtownreno.com/our-stories-1/2023/7/26/darcy-patterson-making-her-late-daughter-proud-with-wake-up-nevada

Our Town Reno reporting, Summer 2023

Monday 08.07.23

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Fox11 News Segment

3/13/2020

https://mynews4.com/amp/news/addicted-nv/addicted-nevada-03-13-2020

BIO (from http://www.harpercollins.com ):

Jessica Care Moore is the founder and CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven, Jess Care Moore Foundation. An internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist, and producer, she is the 2019 and 2017 Knight Arts Award Winner, 2016 Kresge Arts Fellow, NAACP Great Expectations Awardee, and an Alain Locke Award recipient from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Moore is the author of The Words Don’t Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto, Sunlight Through Bullet Holes, and the critically acclaimed Techno Choreopoem, Salt City. Her work has been published in numerous literary collections and she has performed on stages all over the world, including The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the London Institute for Contemporary Arts. jessica lives and writes in an historic Detroit neighborhood with her son King Thomas.

BIO ( from http://www.encyclopedia.com ):

Moore was born in Detroit on October 28, 1971. Detroit is more known for automobiles and for popular music than for its writing scene, but she was exposed to poetry as a student at the city’s Cody High School. She attended Michigan State University in Lansing and Wayne State University in Detroit, writing for campus newspapers at both schools, but her first experience placing her poetry before a group came later. “I didn’t start reading out loud to strangers until ’94,” she told the Cincinnati City Beat. ” My dad passed and I read a poem and people were very impressed by that.”

PIECES:

You Want Poems

TedX Detroit – A Poem Saved my Life

Def Poetry Jam – I’m a Hip Hop Cheerleader

Keep Falling For Michigan – Pure Michigan

Black Statue of Liberty

SUPPORT / INFORMATIONAL LINKS:

Kresge Arts in Detroit

jessica Care moore

https://kresgeartsindetroit.org/artist/jessica-care-moore/

An Interview with Jessica Care Moore

https://www.theauburnavenue.com/jessica-care-moore-interview

Quotes by Jessica Care Moore

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/448897.Jessica_Care_Moore

Anis Mojgani BIO:

Anis Mojgani is the current Poet Laureate of Oregon. A two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam, he has been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera, AIR Serenbe, The Bloedel Nature Reserve, The Sou’wester, and the Oregon Literary Arts Writers-In-The-Schools program. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Anis has done commissions for the Getty Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum; and his work has appeared on HBO, National Public Radio, and as part of the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series. His work has appeared in the pages of the NYTimes, Rattle, Platypus, Winter Tangerine, Forklift Ohio, and Bat City Review.

Known for his performances and well regarded for them the world over, Anis has performed at hundreds of universities across the U.S.; festivals around the globe such as the Sydney Writers Festival, Jamaica’s Calabash festival, and Seoul’s Young Writers Festival; and for audiences as varied as the United Nations and the House of Blues. The author of six books of poetry and the libretto for Sanctuaries, his first children’s book is forthcoming from Holiday House/Neal Porter Books; his latest poetry collection, The Tigers They Let Me, comes out in July 2023. Originally from New Orleans, Anis currently lives in Portland Oregon.

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Source:

https://www.thepianofarm.com/about

Performance Videos:

Come Closer (“Closer”) by Anis Mojgani

Leda by Anis Mojgani

This is How She Makes Me Feel by Anis Mojgani

Shake the Dust by Anis Mojgani