Poet Tarfia Faizullah joins us to discuss her new book, Seam. Tarfia wrote Seam after winning a Fulbright grant to travel to Bangladesh to interview women who were sexually assaulted during the 1971 war with Pakistan. Friend of the podcast and poet Joe Heithaus interviews Tarfia.

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Episode transcript

Show Notes:

• Tarfia’s Personal Website
• Tarfia’s Professor Page
• Seam
• Bangladesh’s War for Independence
• Komola Collective
• Landays Couplet
• Joe Heithaus

Thanks to Evelyn Brosius for our logo. Music used in this episode (in order of appearance):

1. “Badlands” by Cory Gray
   From the Free Music Archive
   CC BY-NC 3.0
2. “Interlude–In Anxious Shadows” by Kai Engel
   From the Free Music Archive
   CC BY-NC 4.0
3. “August (Summer Nights)” by Kai Engel
   From the Free Music Archive
   CC BY-NC 4.0
4. “Cloudburst” by Kai Engel
   From the Free Music Archive
   CC BY-NC 4.0
5. “Puddles and Bars” by Kai Engel
   From the Free Music Archive
   CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. “Something (Bonus Track)” by Kai Engel
   From the Free Music Archive
   CC BY 4.0
7. “Thaw (Outro)” by Kai Engel
   From the Free Music Archive
   CC BY-NC 4.0

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