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7 — Poet Talk about Trees featuring Farah Ghafoor
In episode seven of Poet Talk, Jody and Sanna are joined by award-winning Toronto poet, Farah Ghafoor, to talk about trees.
Together, the trio explores photos of snails after the rain; the ethos of commas; power and prestige as barriers to poetry; and the practice one creates the feeling of time in a poem. Against the backdrop of the magic and factuality of long poems—and the sharp political and economical analysis of Farah's debut collection, Shadow Price—we ask questions like: why do people love trees? What will we leave behind, rooted in them?
This episode features a litany of poets and writers we admire such as Solmaz Sharif, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Richard Siken, George Jackson, and more.
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🔥 2025 Tkaronto Traditional & Prescribed Burn
🌀 Who's Afraid: Reading Series, curated by Furqan Mohamed
🌱 "Here, Grass" by Farah Ghafoor
🐌 "The Snail" by Farah Ghafoor
📝 "The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure" by Solmaz Sharif
🖊️ Cason Sharpe (RIP Twitter)
📗 War of the Foxes by Richard Siken
🌲 Old Growth Forests
📝“On the Concept of History” by Walter Benjamin
🎙️ Yanyi vs. the Personal (VS Podcast)
📝 "Patronage" by Solmaz Sharif
📝 "Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide" by Fargo Tbakhi
🩸Blood in my Eye by George Jackson
🌳 Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
📝 "Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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We’d like to spotlight Climate Justice TO and the Scarborough Environmental Association. CJTO is a grassroots group across the Greater Toronto Area who seek to build a powerful movement to stop the climate crisis by confronting its root causes. SEA is an organization of local residents; together, their goal is make Toronto's largest borough a kinder, greener place.
Support the show
🔔 Follow, rate and subscribe to Poet Talk wherever you're listening.
✨ Poet Talk is independently run, created and produced by Sanna Wani.
♫ Check out the show music in the album Hélice's Awesome Dance Adventure and the creator Komiku on their website.
📲 Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, @talkpoet.
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By Jody Chan & Sanna WaniIn episode seven of Poet Talk, Jody and Sanna are joined by award-winning Toronto poet, Farah Ghafoor, to talk about trees.
Together, the trio explores photos of snails after the rain; the ethos of commas; power and prestige as barriers to poetry; and the practice one creates the feeling of time in a poem. Against the backdrop of the magic and factuality of long poems—and the sharp political and economical analysis of Farah's debut collection, Shadow Price—we ask questions like: why do people love trees? What will we leave behind, rooted in them?
This episode features a litany of poets and writers we admire such as Solmaz Sharif, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Richard Siken, George Jackson, and more.
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🔥 2025 Tkaronto Traditional & Prescribed Burn
🌀 Who's Afraid: Reading Series, curated by Furqan Mohamed
🌱 "Here, Grass" by Farah Ghafoor
🐌 "The Snail" by Farah Ghafoor
📝 "The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure" by Solmaz Sharif
🖊️ Cason Sharpe (RIP Twitter)
📗 War of the Foxes by Richard Siken
🌲 Old Growth Forests
📝“On the Concept of History” by Walter Benjamin
🎙️ Yanyi vs. the Personal (VS Podcast)
📝 "Patronage" by Solmaz Sharif
📝 "Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide" by Fargo Tbakhi
🩸Blood in my Eye by George Jackson
🌳 Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
📝 "Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
*
We’d like to spotlight Climate Justice TO and the Scarborough Environmental Association. CJTO is a grassroots group across the Greater Toronto Area who seek to build a powerful movement to stop the climate crisis by confronting its root causes. SEA is an organization of local residents; together, their goal is make Toronto's largest borough a kinder, greener place.
Support the show
🔔 Follow, rate and subscribe to Poet Talk wherever you're listening.
✨ Poet Talk is independently run, created and produced by Sanna Wani.
♫ Check out the show music in the album Hélice's Awesome Dance Adventure and the creator Komiku on their website.
📲 Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, @talkpoet.