Joann Farias

Joann Farias was a 2004 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights at the Miracle Theatre, where she wrote The Road to XibalbAï¿½, which was produced in 2006 thanks to a grant from the NEA.

Being World

Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 3

I am invidious of mothers’ rubber air
Connecting them to baby. How they walk
With young on hip, the way the baby turns and

Trouble in Eternity

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 1

The trouble is in eternity, the Angels say,
Where my Mormon husband twenty years
Divorced believes in his sleep that we
Are married still. Always he is sleeping

You Owe Me

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

There’s a foul wind blowing in from ten o’clock
Saying, You owe me. I check my balance books,
And they don’t look off, but the wind insists,
You owe me. What? I ask. You abandoned me.

Antler People v. Womb People

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

The antler people have ways of finding
The womb people’s poles and knocking
Them to the ground, if only in the mind.
The womb people bare their breasts

The Mothers’ Antlers

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

The mothers have antlers of their own, the eldest
Mother shall lead the rest, show them
How to do with food first of all, house is next,
And training young the last. The Mothers train