Let’s Hear It for Ball-Busting Poetry About a World Men Have Ruined!
Let’s have dangerous, trouble-making, side-sinister, cantankerous, mean poetry. Let`s have pure-damn evil poetry. Looking out my kitchen window, having watched a red-tailed hawk stoop and carry off a baby rabbit, … Continue reading
Video: The Elephant’s Garden
From Australian animator Felix Colgrave, a beautiful film about the balance of nature.
Naomi Shihab Nye: Questions in July
Where does terror come from? Possibly from people who are terrified. Why does it hurt more when the killed were boys on a beach? They had the breath of the sea in their … Continue reading
Video: Charlie Chaplin’s Message to Humanity
One of the most inspirational speeches in recorded history was made by Charlie Chaplin in the movie “The Great Dictator”.
Running Orders
In July 2014, before the Israeli military would fire at a structure in Gaza, they would send a warning “bomb” to let the Palestinian residents know they had less than … Continue reading
Naomi Shihab Nye: Two Poems
To Israel Are you sleeping well? What do you tell your children, studying history? It was so evil, that people could herd us and hurt us, steal our homes … Continue reading
Rafeef Ziadah: “We Teach Life, Sir.”
Rafeef Ziadah is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who … Continue reading
Man
Here’s a short animated film by Steve Cutts that explains what’s gone wrong in the world.
Video: Naomi Shihab Nye and Chana Bloch Celebrate the Possibility of Peace
Naomi Shihab Nye and Chana Bloch commemorate Israeli Independence Day and Palestinian Nakba Day by reading from their poetry and selected translations at the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
