Hissa Hilal, woman poet and master of bedouin dialect poetry, rocked the Arab world (and my world) by winning the Million’s Poet competition aired on Abu Dhabi state television. She has since received death threats for the words of this poem. I think the real power is in her voice. And in the incredibly brave [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Poem of the Day: The Chaos of Fatwas
Posted in chaos of fatwa, hissa hilal, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing, tagged middle east on 03/28/2010 | 4 Comments »
Poem of the Day: from Leaves of Grass
Posted in poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, Whitman, words, Write, Writer, writing on 03/19/2010 | 2 Comments »
I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and self contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty [...]
Poem of the Day: from Tamburlaine the Great
Posted in marlowe, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 03/12/2010 | 2 Comments »
from “Tamburlaine the Great” (Part 1, Act V, 160-173) What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then? If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feelings of their masters’ thoughts And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their [...]
The Dream of the Desert in the Book
Posted in joris, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 03/08/2010 | 1 Comment »
I The book lies open in all the hallways in all the oases in all the dreams around every corner behind every sand dune in this dream too you have to add a line your place is between the already written & the unwritten, in the white empty space. In this dream Stalin smiled, & [...]
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