Daniel Barnum

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist and the author of TERROR COUNTER. He will speak at the University of Georgia as the 2026 Graduate Reading Series visiting poet on Thursday, March 26th. Daniel Barnum is a PhD student in English: Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia whose work has been published in the New England Review and elsewhere. They sat down with Fargo Tbakhi to discuss his work, including Tbhaki’s pioneering of the tunneling form.

Question by May Swenson Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen Where will I sleep How will I ride What will I hunt Where can I go without my mount all eager and quick How will I know in thicket ahead is danger or treasure when Body my good bright dog is dead How will it be to lie in the sky without roof or door and wind for an eye With cloud for shift how will I hide? * * * Answers Body my house We moved around a lot.

JUNE 6, 2021 ELISSA WASHUTA IS a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a Cascade descendent. She is the author of two books, My Body Is a Book of Rules (2014) and Starvation Mode: A Memoir of Food, Consumption, and Control (2015), and co-editor, with Theresa Warburton, of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction (2019).