Tarik Dobbs

Jun 11, 2024 | haymarketbooks.org | Tarik Dobbs |Mohammed El-Kurd |Noor Hindi |Justin Rovillos Monson

From one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of fierce tenderness, political acuity, and powerful lyricism. Tarik Dobbs’s work explores surveillance, queerness, disability, race, and working-class identity in post-9/11 America. As an Arab American writer, Dobbs is achingly familiar with the power dynamics, violence, and capitalistic undercurrents woven through the language of the colonizer.

Jan 15, 2024 | theseventhwave.org | Tarik Dobbs

Author's note: These visual poems draw inspiration from an earlier phase of this project, which itself emerged in response to my daily commutes across the bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. As I look out upon a landscape now heavily shaped by American colonialism, I know another world is possible.

Apr 28, 2023 | therumpus.net | Tarik Dobbs

National Poetry Month Day 28: Tarik Dobbs Not an ExitI was seventeen interning at a natural gas line, I smelledLike shit, frankly, I washed myself in sandedPaper, that textured soap — it lookedLike dotted rosacea. While I stared at my palm, I F-350’dSomeone’s sedan in the parking lot.