From Lehrer's News Hour :: In Palestine, Identity Is Regained Through Poetry

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The last line of the story is something to the effect that poetry saves us.

Well. Yeah.

:)

The News Hour says:

Poets in the Arab world have historically been important cultural figures, and this tradition continues among Palestinians. In the second of his reports on Middle East poetry, Jeffrey Brown discusses poetry's role in Arab society with three leading Palestinian poets.

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On Being a Woman :: Re-claiming Feminism

Had a long conversation with Jen of Ebb & Flow TV, produced in consanguinity with her husband, Kent.

Ah.

This is my audio & text response to her fine poem. Download the mp3 HERE.

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Photos by Bill Foley.

Bill and I worked together years ago. He seemed remarkably human for a still guy, and we got on. When I moved to a loft in Williamsburg I suggested he take some photographs of the place, a spot I knew neared the end of its useful life as both building and working factory.

Was writing a lot back then and shared the words about the factory with him, toward inspiration. After he gave me prints, I re-wrote and ordered the bits together in what I'd wanted to be a handmade, limited edition book. I'd no money to execute the project in the way I'd imagined and its publication foundered, though this one piece found a page in "The World's Longest Open Love Letter".

"Jackie on His Head: For JKO" was one of the poems and short stories that were appropriate to our collective mission of hanging out and documenting the amazing space in which I lived.

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