Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on February 5th, 2011
Good morning!
I just discovered this poet: Suheir Hammad. She performs two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: “What I Will” and “break (clustered)” — meditations on war and peace, on women and power.
In her poems and plays, Suheir Hammad blends the stories and sounds of her Palestinian-American heritage with the vibrant language of Brooklyn to create a passionately modern voice.
Suheir Hammad is the author of breaking poems, recipient of a 2009 American Book Award and the Arab American Book award for Poetry 2009. Her other books are ZaatarDiva; Born Palestinian, Born Black; and Drops of This Story. Her work has been widely anthologized and also adapted for theater.
Her produced plays include Blood Trinity and breaking letter(s), and she wrote the libretto for the multimedia performance Re-Orientalism. An original writer and performer in the Tony-winning Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Suheir appears in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Official SelectionSalt of This Sea. She is the Artist in Residency at the NYU’s APA Institute for 2010.
“In these poems, it’s no longer necessary to speak in argument convincing sentences; the fact of her being, speaking, the fact of her family’s, her communities’, the fact of women surviving in Palestine, in Iraq, in New Orleans, is argument enough.”
Barbara Jane Reyes, Poetry Foundation
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Readers: I am speechless. As one commentator wrote, “If this does not move you, check your pulse.”
Well…are you moved? Blog me. Tell me your thoughts. How did her poetry make you feel?
Peace & Love, “Live it, Give it”
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February 6th, 2011 at 8:00 am
Shame on you ALL.
Michelle takes the time to post every day and nobody writes in for two days except Zen Lill.
Try this URL and read About UFO’s throughout history, from biblical times to the 1800′s when humans had no flying craft to blame them on.
This is an AOL article and is cool. If you believe in UFO’s you should read this and see that the Nations of the Earth are waking up and giving creedence to UFO sightings. Many are from the middle ages — sightings by Kings and Monks and crowds of people.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/04/a-ufo-is-still-a-ufo-from-antiquity-to-today/
HOWIE
February 6th, 2011 at 9:35 am
Howie, maybe they could not get in, I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt at least : )
…you know, there’s a cathedral in Lareto Italy that has a small chapel inside made of – well – nothing native of Italian soil and there are pictures of a ‘flying chariot’ to explain how it got there, : ) I thought that was some serious suspension of belief i.e. fiction ; )
Mischa, have a pulse and woe, love her blend of cultures and dig the slight street Brooklynese style, I have much more to say but have to go meet a friend now…
Luv, Zen Lill