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Author: India Hixon Radfar

India Hixon Radfar is a poet who lives in Los Angeles. Her books can be found at Pir Press, Tender Buttons Books, Shivastan Publications and Station Hill Press. Her father was comparative religion philosopher Lex Hixon who converted to Islam in 1979 when she was thirteen years old.

15 October, 2021 • India Hixon Radfar

Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet

India Hixon Radfar A Dove In Free Flight, Selected Poems of Faraj Bayrakdar Edited & introduced by Ammiel Alcalay and Shareah Taleghani Upset Press (October 2021)   The truth is… Continue reading Faraj Bayrakdar, Once Syria’s Prisoner, is Freedom’s Poet

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15 October, 2021 • India Hixon Radfar

Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Rifqa” Reviewed

  Rifqa, poems by Mohammed el-Kurd Haymarket Books (Sept. 2021) ISBN: 9781642595864   India Hixon Radfar Poet Mohammed El-Kurd often plays by pairing his words, thus doubling or halving their… Continue reading Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Rifqa” Reviewed

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14 September, 2020 • India Hixon Radfar

Poetic Exploration of Illness Conveys Trauma

I am waiting for the Tunisian American writer Leila Chatti to tell me, in her own words, in her debut collection of poetry, Deluge, about women in Islam, but she is telling me about blood instead.

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