Who We Be
Poetry A Day for Ramadan came about after instigator Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed started writing a poem a day for Ramadan after the first year her mother passed away. As she started talking about it with her friends, different people wanted to participate. The project has grown into an online closed forum with 70 members who are Muslim-ish or Muslim-adjacent. Every Ramadan since 2012, the group writes and shares in a creative practice, the only rule being that you must share one piece to the group each week.
At the end of each Ramadan, there is an Eid performance where participants (and others from the community) share the pieces they wrote that month. These events are co-hosted with the local Los Angeles literary-activism community, including: Kaya Press, Writ Large Press, Tuesday Night Project, and Vigilant Love.
Poetry-A-Day for Ramadan has presented on panels “Breaking Fast with Words: Five Years of Poetry-a-Day for Ramadan” at writing conferences: Thinking Its Presence 2017 & Association of Writers Programs 2018.
Follow some of the poets in the project here:
