The Fire In Our Throats: A Night of Poetry, Vulnerability, & Voice

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Dr. Darius Phelps to celebrate and discuss his latest collection of poetry, My God's Been Silent.

Taiyo Na, DeeSoul Carson, Karl Michael Iglesias, & Andrew Chi Keong Yim will join Dr. Phelps on stage to read poetry. Afterwards, Dr. Phelps will sign copies of his book.

Tickets are available through eventbrite and in-person.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Dr. Darius Phelps is the author of My God’s Been Silent (Writ Large Press, 2026) and The Holy Ghost Lives In Her Laugh (Kith Books, 2026). A poet before anything else, his work bears witness to grief, faith, and the act of becoming—offering language as a form of liberation and light. Through the lens of poetic inquiry, Dr. Phelps explores how verse can function as pedagogy, healing and survival. Rooted in Black literary traditions and personal testimony, his poems navigate silence, ancestry, and resilience, creating sanctuaries for voices too often unheard. His work has been featured by Diode, Een Magazine, School Library Journal, and many more across platforms that champion the power of story to honor every body, every history, and every voice.

ABOUT THE FEATURED POETS
Taiyo Na is a writer of poems, songs, stories and curricula who lives on unceded Lenape land (Queens, NY) and whose writing has appeared in Kweli Journal, Poets House and in the anthology We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word (Haymarket Books, 2024). He is the author of the forthcoming God of Water (Pali Press), which was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award and Clay Reynolds Novella Prize.

DeeSoul Carson is a poet and educator from San Diego, CA, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. His work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, The Offing, & elsewhere. A Stanford University alum, DeeSoul has received fellowships from the NYU MFA program, The Watering Hole, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His debut full-length, The Laughing Barrel, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in Spring 2027. Find more of his work at deesoulpoetry.com

Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Karl Michael Iglesias is a Puerto Rican actor, director, and the author of Catch a Glow. His work can be read in the Madison Review, Westchester Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Pigeon Pages NYC, Up The Staircase Quarterly, Breakwater Review, The Florida Review, RHINO Poetry, Kweli Journal, Haymarket Books’ Breakbeat Poet Anthology, NO DEAR Magazine, Brooklyn Review, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. Karl lives in Brooklyn, New York. His latest collection, The Bounce, is available on Finishing Line Press.

Andrew Chi Keong Yim was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He was awarded the 2024 New Voices Award in Poetry from Washington Square Review, selected by Terrance Hayes, and is a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Adroit Journal, Bat City Review, Frozen Sea and other publications. Andrew is the author of the debut poetry collection The Ninth Island, forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press. He lives in New York City, where he is a public school teacher.

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
• Doors open at 6:30pm, with the talk starting around 7:00pm.
• Books will be available for purchase at the event.
• Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
• If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!

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