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Rachelle Escamilla’s Interview with Me On “Out of Our Minds” on KKUP Cupertino | San Jose

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My Students First Taught Me to Claim the Politics of My Survival

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Commonplace Question #1: How Did You Become a Poet?

Commonplace Question #2: Are The Poems Part of a Conversation?

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The Way Academia Is Supposed To Work

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Medical Culture and Its Effects on Doctors and Patients

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A Video of the Book Launch for “Veils, Halos & Shackles”

Compulsory Heterosexuality at Work

Some Thoughts About Harvey Weinstein and What He Represents

from God’s Phallus, by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz

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I Miss The Muppets!

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“Stand By Me” in Persian and English

If You Read Rumi in English, Read This New Yorker Article

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Reading “The Veil and The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam,” by Fatima Mernissi

If You Read Rumi in English, Read This New Yorker Article

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Antisemitism Has Always Been a Part of My Life - 1

My Response to The Erasure of Antisemitism in Namrata Poddar’s Article in the Recent Issue of Poets & Writers

“My Companion’s Scent Seeped Into Me” - National Sa’di Day

Trying to Write After Charlottesville

from “Pluralism and Its Discontents: The Case of Blacks and Jews,” by Cheryl Greenberg

I Just Learned About the Equal Justice Initiative - If You Don’t Know About It, You Should

from “The Lines That Antisemitism and Racism Draw”

All in men → Latest in men

Concerto for Two Men, by Ella Ben-Aharon

All in my work → Latest in my work

The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma

Commonplace Question #2: Are The Poems Part of a Conversation?

Anatomy of a Book Cover

Commonplace Question #1: How Did You Become a Poet?

The Way Academia Is Supposed To Work

Lines That Didn’t Make the Cut: Remembering Claudia

A Lovely Review of “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer”

Lines That Didn’t Make The Cut: Ruth’s Story

Publication News: Three New Poems in Two Lovely Publications

Lines That Didn’t Make The Cut: Sometimes It’s Just a Big Mess Rachelle Escamilla’s Interview with Me On “Out of Our Minds” on KKUP Cupertino | San Jose

Trying to Write After Charlottesville

A Video of the Book Launch for “Veils, Halos & Shackles”

The Music I’d Like to Put Back Into My Life

All in poetry → Latest in poetry

The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma

Commonplace Question #2: Are The Poems Part of a Conversation?

Reading Mark Nowak’s “Social Poetics:” Thinking About The First Tuesdays Cento and A ‘Flipped Script’ Poetry Reading

Craft Talk 2: Packing Lines with Sound & Meaning - Rosa Alice Branco, translated by Alexis Levitin

Commonplace Question #1: How Did You Become a Poet?

Lines That Didn’t Make the Cut: Remembering Claudia

A Lovely Review of “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer”

Lines That Didn’t Make The Cut: Ruth’s Story

Lines That Didn’t Make The Cut: Sometimes It’s Just a Big Mess

Prepping For Fall 2018: The Poetry Workshop

My Response to The Erasure of Antisemitism in Namrata Poddar’s Article in the Recent Issue of Poets & Writers

from “The Necessity to Speak,” by Sam Hamill

My Year Long Writing Project

A Video of the Book Launch for “Veils, Halos & Shackles”

Craft Talk 1: Quincy Troupe’s Rhythm

If You Read Rumi in English, Read This New Yorker Article

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from Male Lust

from Male Lust

Reading “The Veil and The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam,” by Fatima Mernissi

from “The Necessity to Speak,” by Sam Hamill

from God’s Phallus, by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz

from “Pluralism and Its Discontents: The Case of Blacks and Jews,” by Cheryl Greenberg

All in race → Latest in race

My Response to The Erasure of Antisemitism in Namrata Poddar’s Article in the Recent Issue of Poets & Writers

Trying to Write After Charlottesville A Great Video on Racism by Maz Jobrani

from “Pluralism and Its Discontents: The Case of Blacks and Jews,” by Cheryl Greenberg

I Just Learned About the Equal Justice Initiative - If You Don’t Know About It, You Should

All in religion → Latest in religion

Reading “The Veil and The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam,” by Fatima Mernissi

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I Know I’ve Had Orgasms That Changed Me

All in sexual violence → Latest in sexual violence

A Video of the Book Launch for “Veils, Halos & Shackles”

Some Thoughts About Harvey Weinstein and What He Represents

My Students First Taught Me to Claim the Politics of My Survival

All in sufism → Latest in sufism

If You Read Rumi in English, Read This New Yorker Article

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My Students First Taught Me to Claim the Politics of My Survival

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“My Companion’s Scent Seeped Into Me” - National Sa’di Day

“Between the 1930s and the year 2000…only 32 novels were translated from Arabic into Hebrew.”

If You Read Rumi in English, Read This New Yorker Article

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The Way Academia Is Supposed To Work