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Original Poetry
The Word Made Flesh
Poetry that bears witness. That names what cannot be silenced. That carries the weight of generations and the lightness of hope — all in the same breath.
Dr. Barbara Talley & Radiance Talley
Themes We Explore
The Territory of These Poems
Dr. Barbara Talley
The Griot's Verses
Drawing from 45+ years of lived experience across 22 countries, Dr. Barbara Talley's poetry is a griot's gift — preserving memory, naming truth, and calling communities toward healing and wholeness.
"We've been gifted to use our words to bestir people, to wake them up, to make them think, to make them feel."
Dr. Barbara Talley
Radiance Talley
The Poet's Collections
Radiance Talley's poetry is intimate and unflinching — a chronicle of isolation and emergence, oppression and resistance, spiritual seeking and sovereign selfhood. Each collection is a world unto itself.
Live Performance
Podcast Feature
Patiently Striving to Create Beauty from Pain
A feature on Radiance Talley's poetry and her journey of creating art from lived experience — published on BahaiTeachings.org.
Read the Feature →CNN Feature
An Interracial Love Story and a Poetic Tribute
In 2022, the producer of CNN's "This Is Life With Lisa Ling" reached out after reading Radiance's series on interracial Baha'i couples. In the segment, Radiance can be heard reciting the first stanza of her poem "A Love at First Sight Story."
Watch the Segment →"Poetry is my most intimate companion, my cathartic outlet, my personal form of expression as it chronicled my journey from painstaking isolation to proud independence."
Radiance Talley
Live Performance
Poetry as Performance
The page is only the beginning. When Dr. Barbara and Radiance step onto a stage, the poem becomes an event — a living, breathing encounter between word and witness.
Available for conferences, galas, worship services, university events, and community gatherings — solo or together, with or without musical accompaniment.
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