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Google Honors Female Arab Poet
Tweet On Tuesday, Google celebrated the birthday of Nazik al-Malaika, a wonderful female poet, by honoring her with a “Google Doodle.” Al-Malaika was widely known in the Arab world. She passed away in June 2007. Her obituary in the NY Times described her as “one of the Arab world’s most famous poets” and “one of [...]
Poet, visionary Gil Scott Heron dies
TweetWe lost a powerful voice for social justice when Gil Scott Heron died Friday at 62. I really have no words, so let’s let some of his most famous speak for themselves: (Video is closed captioned.) Tweet
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And the Hey, Boo tickets go to…
TweetCaterina Gironda, who sent in this lovely poem: I want to tell you that I am woman, Because I feel my womb swell once a month, And bleed with the promise to produce a new life. I want to tell you that I am woman, Because I recall when my hymen bled like a head [...]
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What I Will by Suheir Hammad
TweetThis poem spread among my friends on Facebook yesterday. These are the words I needed following the celebration of Osama bin Laden’s assassination in the midst of endless war. Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian-American poet and acivist. She was born to refugees in Jordan and immigrated to Brooklyn. “What I Will” was written in response [...]
Not Oprah’s Book Club: Love Cake