David Naimon

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4,074 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 24 Aug

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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · Hajjar Baban : Low Flying Planes · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

I wanted to begin to touch the surface of silence as it built my life. podcast-host

Demystifying this poem would go against the thing that allows it to work. podcast-host

It would unravel the lie in what I tried to declare. podcast-host

Anyway, a lot of it is in that word beyond. podcast-host

It feels like this is a refusal, perhaps in the way Salon is refusing. podcast-host

But either way, a pushback against a curiosity to know, perhaps, or to explain. podcast-host

So thinking back to Tracy's question about how you both are exploring absence and speaking into absence, but also you're employing absence. podcast-host

And I wonder if you agree and if you could talk about as part of your answer the refusal podcast-host

to be transparent or forthcoming as part of your poetics. podcast-host

Uh I love that aspiration. podcast-host

That's really beautiful. podcast-host

Well, in the aura of of Tracy's question, let's hear two more poems. podcast-host

I was I was thinking two truths and a lie because that poem I think's interesting because it just the title sort of invites a curiosity, but also includes a refusal in not telling us which is which. podcast-host

So we know there's potentially gonna be a limitation to what we're gonna discover. podcast-host

war and yet there's sort of a a a seduction to read and then also unconventional warfare. podcast-host

And listening to Hajar Baban read from Low Flying Planes. podcast-host

So thinking of opaqueness in relation to Kurdishness. podcast-host

I wondered if you could speak a little to your experience growing up in Dearborn. podcast-host

You talk about this on the Halal Metropolis podcast, how you presumed that being visibly Muslim, going to high school in a hijab, that you would be legible to your peers in some way, that you ultimately weren't entirely, that in a way you were mistranslated in a sense. podcast-host

It makes me think a little when Sharif Shanahan podcast-host

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