An Online Poetry Reading Series

Crucible is an online poetry reading series, presented by Glass Poetry Press, and live-streamed on YouTube Live.

April 18, 2020

7:00PM EST
Adeeba Shahid Talukder, Rajiv Mohabir, Faisal Mohyuddin, and Katie Willingham

Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018) and her debut collection, Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), is a winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Poem-A-Day, Gulf Coast, Meridian, and The Margins, and her translations in PBS Frontline and Words Without Borders. A Best of the Net finalist and a Pushcart nominee, Adeeba holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and an Emerging Poets fellowship from Poets House.
(photo credit: Christopher Lucka)

Purchase What Is Not Beautiful from Glass Poetry Press here.
Purchase Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved from Tupelo Press here.

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of The Cowherd's Son (Tupelo Press 2017) and The Taxidermist's Cut (Four Way Books 2016). He is translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (Kaya Press 2019) which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award. His memoir won Reckless Books' 2019 New Immigrant Writing Prize and is forthcoming 2021. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College and translations editor at Waxwing Journal.

Purchase The Taxidermist's Cut from Four Way Books here.
Purchase The Cowherd's Son from Tupelo Press here.
Purchase I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara from Kaya Press here.

Faisal Mohyuddin is a poet, educator, and visual artist. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear, 2018) and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone, 2017). An educator adviser to the global not-for-profit Narrative 4, he teaches English at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago and a new course on chapbooks at Northwestern University.

Learn more about Faisal Mohyuddin and his work on on his website.
Purchase The Riddle of Longing from Backbone Press here.
Purchase The Displaced Children of Displaced Children from Small Press Distribution here.

Katie Willingham is the author of Unlikely Designs (University of Chicago Press). Her poems have appeared in such venues as Kenyon Review, Poem-A-Day, Third Coast, Diagram, The Literary Review, and others. Her work also appears in the recent anthology The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling edited by Robert Pinsky. She serves as the editor of Michigan Quarterly Review and is currently working remotely for all her jobs from Chittenden, Vermont.

Learn more about Katie Willingham and her work on on her website.
Purchase Unlikely Designs from University of Chicago Press here.