Buxton Books is excited to host a reception in the bookstore after the Poetry Society of South Carolina welcomes poet Tariff Faizullah to Charleston. Please join us for a glass of wine and to grab a copy of the featured book!

Tarfia Faizullah was born in Brooklyn, New York to Bangladeshi immigrants, and raised in Texas. She is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018) and Seam (SIU, 2014). Please see "About the Event" for more information.

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About the Event

Tarfia's writing has appeared widely in the US and abroad. The recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and other honors, Faizullah presents work at institutions and organizations worldwide, and has been featured at Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art, the Fulbright Conference, the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, the Radcliffe Seminars, New York University, Barnard College, University of California Berkeley, the Poetry Foundation, the Clinton School of Public Service, Brac University, and elsewhere. In 2016, Harvard Law School included Faizullah in their list of 50 Women Inspiring Change.