Dujie Tahat
Dujie Tahat is a Filipino-Jordanian immigrant living in Washington state. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Nashville Review, the Southeast Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, the American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Dujie has earned fellowships from the Richard Hugo House and Jack Straw Writing Program. He serves as a poetry editor for Moss and Homology Lit and cohosts the Poet Salon podcast. He got his start as a Seattle Poetry Slam Finalist, a collegiate grand slam champion, and Seattle Youth Speaks Grand Slam Champion, representing Seattle at HBO’s Brave New Voices.
Reading List
Six Ways to Use a Spoon
First, to dig a ditch the shape of a body or, shallower and closer to home, scrape off flaky lead paint or dead skin blistered dry by sun. Second, to play a trick or spoons or pull with your teeth—bend with your mind to make a spectacle. You’re a spectacular jubilee. Look, it’s a mirror […]
Ode to the Golden Hour on the Day of Finalizing My Divorce
O thank god you’re finally here to ferry us into the dark filtered through the firs to remind me of my greenness. Everything is green & blue & yellow— even my daughter’s open wound. A cut on a scar on a knee. I snapped at the kids all through dinner— irritated at the slight of […]