Arts
Extra ResourcesBooks and Selected Other Work by Charif ShanahanPOETRYTrace Evidence (Tin House, 2023)Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017)Books and Selected Other Work by Safia ElhilloPOETRYGirls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022)The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017)“Indeterminacy” (Poets.org, 2023)FICTIONHome Is Not a Country (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021)EDITORIAL PROJECTSed. with Fatimah Asghar, The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019)Also ReferencedCave CanemMiznaThe Ineffable Residence: Safia Elhillo Interviews Charif ShanahanMoore Lecture Series at Northwestern UniversityAbdel Halim HafezSudan Cipher Orpheus & EuridiceTercetGhazalSonnet“Indeterminacy” by Charif Shanahan (chosen by Patricia Smith)Wallace Stegner FellowshipFulbright FellowshipEavan BolandMichele Elam, The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium (Stanford University Press, 2011)Omar ibn SaidBios:Charif Shanahan is the author of Trace Evidence: poems, which was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, and Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. He is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Northwestern University.Safia Elhillo is Sudanese by way of Washington, DC. She is the author of The January Children, Girls That Never Die, and the novel in verse Home Is Not a Country. With Fatimah Asghar, she is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me.Isaac Ginsberg Miller is a PhD candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University, where he is also a member of the Poetry and Poetics Graduate Cluster. His chapbook Stopgap, won The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Contest and was published in 2019.Please support Commonplace by becoming a patron here!Sign up for “Reading with Rachel,” the newest course in The Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics.