Episode 08: Alise Alousi
In this episode, Alise Alousi discusses her poetry and her work for the Detroit-based literary arts organization InsideOut with Sally Howell.
She also reads several of her poems for us, “Capture the Flag,” “The Man Who Painted My Father's Eye,” “Imitation Spring - a Ghazal,” and “What Every Driver Must Know.”
About Alise Alousi:
Alise Alousi’s work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including most recently in The Detroit Free Press and R&R Press. She is a recipient of fellowships to the Fine Arts Work Center, Soul Mountain, and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing as well as a 2019 Kresge Literary Arts Fellowship and a 2015 Knight Arts Challenge Detroit award. Her poetry is forthcoming in a new anthology of Arab love poems, We Call to the Eye & the Night, to be published by Persea Books in Fall 2022 edited by Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck.
