tariq ∙ poetry & other things

poetry & other things

WORKSHOPS & CONSULTATION

Having been an organizer, educator, and mentor for years, Tariq is prepared to help your organization achieve its goals with tailored, hands-on training and cooperation.

Having been an organizer, educator, and mentor for years, Tariq is prepared to help your organization achieve its goals with tailored, hands-on training and cooperation.

CONSULTATION

Tariq has had a hand in the growth of a number of different communities through the years, in poetry and beyond. From North Carolina to Detroit and youth to professionals, Tariq has been instrumental in cultivating cultures rooted in structure, creative cohesion, and sustainability. In these tailored sessions, Tariq combines his experience building communities as a coach and an administrator with his background as a marketing strategist, analyst, and brand-builder to help offer budding organizations the resources necessary to grow and maintain a solid foundation.

Together, you will identify your organization’s core competencies, target audience, opportunities for growth, goals, and devise an actionable strategy to ensure that those goals are reached and that success is sustained.

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WORKSHOPS
*Literary/writing workshop descriptions coming soon. In the meantime, if there is a specific theme or topic you’d like Tariq to cover, feel free to make a request.

COACHING SESSION:

With several years of writing, performance, coaching, and facilitation experience, Tariq is able to provide you or your organization with a variety of different coaching and development experiences based on your needs.

CUSTOM WORKSHOP:

Tell Tariq what you have in mind! Let him know what you’re interested in workshopping with your organization and Tariq will either work with you, or recommend someone better-suited for your goals.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Each Talk/Lecture can be customized to fit your organization’s needs and desired length of time. Talks/Lectures typically range from 15 minutes to 60 minutes and can include an optional Q&A at the end.Connect with Tariq here.

Each Talk/Lecture can be customized to fit your organization’s needs and desired length of time. Talks/Lectures typically range from 15 minutes to 60 minutes and can include an optional Q&A at the end.

Connect with Tariq here.

Tariq is an experienced speaker who dissects issues ranging from the organizational development to digital/technological ethics to the work of changing attitudes, whether it be combating toxic masculinity or addressing prejudice in our communities.

POETRY SHOWS

Tariq is an experienced speaker, performer, and host ready and willing to help you fulfill your performance needs.

Tariq is an experienced speaker, performer, and host ready and willing to help you fulfill your performance needs.

For more than half a decade, Tariq Luthun has performed his poetry across the country, weaving vivid and poetic storytelling with a powerful narrative voice in order to cultivate work with a “bold, fresh take on what it means to grow.” He has been a featured performer at a number of collegiate and professional venues throughout the nation, having shared stages with the likes of Buddy Wakefield, Rudy Francisco, Omar Offendum, Remi Kanazi, and more. Currently, he hosts the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam, the second-longest tenured slam in the United States. Touching on everything from masculinity to his Palestinian heritage to relationships, Tariq crafts his work and performance to make concepts concrete, seeking to address the ether between labels and the juxtaposition within identities.

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