An evening on ZOOM of poetry and conversation with poets Clemonce Heard & M.L. Martin who along with special guest moderator Moheb Soliman, all met as Tulsa Artist Fellows.  _____________
 
Clemonce Heard was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the winner of the 2020 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize, selected by Major Jackson. His poetry collection, Tragic City, which investigates the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in October 2021. Heard’s work has appeared or is forthcoming from Obsidian, The Missouri Review, Cimarron Review, Iron Horse, World Literature Today, Poetry, Rattle, Ruminate, and elsewhere. He earned a BFA in graphic communications from Northwestern State University, and an MFA in creative writing from Oklahoma State University. Heard was a recipient of a 2018-2019 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the 2019-2020 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and served as the 2021 Sala Diaz artist-in-residence in San Antonio, Texas.  https://www.clemonceheard.com/ ___________
 
M.L. Martin is an interdisciplinary poet and translator whose current work explores the power of ekphrasis as a mode of critique. Her collection of ekphrastic prose poems, called Theater of No Mistakes (Anhinga Press), is in conversation with the work of the American Surrealist painter Philip C. Curtis and the mise en scène of the Sonoran desert and contain a feminist ecopoetics—from an oblique angle. Her language-based installation, Journey to Shoshone Falls, uses archival material and found texts to create textual interventions in the archival landscape of a masterwork, and was shown at The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma from October 2019—March 15, 2020. Her micro-chapbook of the same name is now available from Walls Divide Press. Her poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, The Fiddlehead, Interim, The Massachusetts Review, PRISM international, and many other Canadian and American literary journals. Her work in translation aims to revise the critical interpretation and reception of the enigmatic Anglo-Saxon poem known as “Wulf and Eadwacer,” and to recover this radical female text to the feminist and experimental canons to which it belongs. Her experimental translations of Old English can be found in ANMLY (f.k.a. Drunken Boat), Arkansas International, Brooklyn Rail In Translation, The Black Warrior Review, The Capilano Review, Columbia Journal, The Cortland Review, The Kenyon Review Online, The Literary Review, Lunch Ticket, Poetry in Action, and Waxwing.      She is the recipient of the Theresa A. Wilhoit Fellowship, the Inprint Verlaine Prize in Poetry, and has received grants from Bread Loaf and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She recently completed a two-and-a-half-year fellowship with Tulsa Artist Fellowship, where she made many interdisciplinary performances, and founded the Translation Now! symposium.  https://www.m-l-martin.com/poetry
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Moheb Soliman-"I am an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest. I’ve presented writing, performance, installation, and video work at diverse literary, art, and public spaces in the US and Canada with support from the Banff Centre, Pillsbury House, Joyce Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship where I’ve been a multi-year resident, among others. I have degrees from The New School for Social Research and the University of Toronto and currently live in Minnesota outside the Twin Cities as pictured here post-country form, coupled with hybrid writer Kathryn Savage, her son, and his dog inside hard at work and play. Important to highlight, my first poetry book, HOMES (Coffee House Press 2021), dwells in the natural-cultural sprawl of the Great Lakes region as it reckons like much of my work with issues of modernity, identity, place and belonging. Please reach out below to know more, keep up with me as I make good, or share your own goods or our sure overlaps." https://www.mohebsoliman.info/