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farahghafoor.bsky.social
poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
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we're almost at capacity! rvsp soon via sptl.eventbrite.com #torontolitup ft @sannawani.bsky.social Furqan Mohamed at Queen Books 🌞 grateful to @festofauthors @torontoartscouncil

this thursday! @houseofanansi.bsky.social’s poetry bash with @teresempierre.bsky.social @afmoritz.bsky.social Clemence Dumas-Cote! see u there!!

the Toronto launch for Shadow Price is in less than two weeks! rvsp via sptl.eventbrite.com 🌞 @sannawani.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social

up next: Poetry Bash at Ottawa Writers Festival this Wednesday April 16 at 7pm at St. John the Evangelist 🌞 with @afmoritz.bsky.social Clemence Dumas-Cote and Karen Solie! RVSP via writersfestival.org/events/sprin...

tomorrow!

today!!

excited to read with @teresempierre.bsky.social and @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social for the @theampersandreview.bsky.social reading series at Sheridan College next Thursday!

up next!! reading at @teresempierre.bsky.social ’s launch at Society Clubhouse with @spondeee.bsky.social @faitharkorful.bsky.social and @suntorya.bsky.social 💐 rvsp via the link in Terese’s bio :)

I have some events for "Myth" coming this spring! Will I see you there? 🥰

🌞 WELCOME TO THE WORLD, SHADOW PRICE 🌞 One of my biggest dreams has come true and my debut poetry collection is out in the world! I hope you love it as much I do :)

super excited for this!!! 💐💐

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

the interview is out online and wherever you get your podcasts :) www.cbc.ca/arts/q/how-m...

tomorrow at Trinity College!

tune in to CBC Q on CBC Radio One at 10am this Thursday to hear me chat about Shadow Price with the one and only @tomjoepower.bsky.social 🌿 if you miss it, the episode be on their website and podcast shortly afterwards

I can't even begin to express how much it means to me that @andrimagnason.bsky.social blurbed Shadow Price! His book Time and Water completely changed my perspective about climate change.

HAPPY WORLD POETRY DAY 💐💐💐 Shadow Price is actually available in plenty of bookstores now! It’ll be available everywhere by April 1st.

“Anything to avoid contending with the possibility that all this killing wasn’t the result of a system abused, but a system functioning exactly as intended.”

rvsp!!!! can't wait for this

🌟 SHADOW PRICE TOUR 🌟 I’m so fortunate to be able to travel this spring and hold launches in Toronto, Windsor, and online! Please RVSP so we have enough seats for everyone!

had an amazing time chatting with Hiba!! <3

want to review Shadow Price? If so, please email [email protected]! houseofanansi.com/products/sha...

Well, now I’m just sobbing. Thank you Laura Gilpin. You are missed.

fantastic

i really love this

Mahmoud Khalil's attorney said ICE was informed that Khalil is a permanent resident with a green card but they "detained him anyway," saying they were revoking his student visa. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

how to relax jaw ??? i can't do this anymore

elephant in the zoom

Happy pub day to my book PRIMORDIAL! It's out today from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Sharing this moment with my saola plushie, courtesy of the Saola Foundation for Annamite Mountains Conservation ✨ Info/order: www.graywolfpress.org/books/primor...

Bitches, I better see a crocus soon. Give a boy a break.

thank you @sannawani for this splendid blurb! Her beautiful collection My Grief, the Sun won the 2023 Trillium Book Award for Poetry.

prefrontal cortex development as 24 year old....literally new year new me

Still much to celebrate, yes— Enjoyed talking about poetry’s boundless potentials and heartbreaking limitations with @patrycjasara.bsky.social, author of the gorgeously searing WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES, this week on Tightwires! @tinhouse.bsky.social youtu.be/A_Pu2SXvjL8

Call for Submissions: The New Material Ecopoetics! How do you write with nature? We're seeking unpublished experimental eco-poetry (lyric, visual, material & sound) for Fall 2025. Send your big swings by May 15! Check out our submission guidelines at buff.ly/3EUtM6m

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

only when ramadan comes around do i remember how essential a cup of tea is to writing haha

so thrilled to have received advance praise from Dr Craig Santos Perez! 💡 Shadow Price is forthcoming from @houseofanansi.bsky.social ✨

yeah i think i'm the cursed king LOL

first review! "Ghafoor is a natural storyteller, and her lyrics offer the temperament of the ancient seer, able to discern what is long behind and ahead, all that is hidden and all that is obvious; what others simply refuse to see, if only they’d listen....an absolutely solid debut." thank you rob!

i love being subscribed to The Walrus 💖 every issue now is so interesting

Third World Players Time and Place: Every Thursday at 6:00 pm. CKCU FM 93.1 Web: www.ckcufm.com/ readings from Third World literature

Upcoming book tour for PRIMORDIAL, with thanks to @graywolfpress.bsky.social as well as the organizations and fellow writers who will be joining me to share in the release of this new book. ❤️