Poetry Craft Talk: Darius Phelps & Karl Michael Iglesias

Join Darius Phelps (My God’s Been Silent) in conversation with Karl Michael Iglesias—poet and performer whose work moves with urgency, vulnerability, and embodied presence—for an evening centered on craft, intimacy, and shaping lived experience into language. Together, they will explore how poetry holds what lingers—grief, desire, and the questions that remain after the silence. A Q&A will follow.

Dr. Darius Phelps (he/him) 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 work has been featured or is forthcoming in Frozen Sea, Diode,Tupelo Quarterly, Matter Monthly, Cultural Daily, Een Magazine, School Library Journal, and many more.

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, Hong Kong Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Florida Review, 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.