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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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Compulsory Heterosexuality at Work

from God’s Phallus, by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz

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

Some Thoughts About Harvey Weinstein and What He Represents

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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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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

from “The Lines That Antisemitism and Racism Draw”

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

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Concerto for Two Men, by Ella Ben-Aharon

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

The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma

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

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

Lines That Didn’t Make the Cut: Remembering Claudia

Trying to Write After Charlottesville

Commonplace Question #2: Are The Poems Part of a Conversation? Rachelle Escamilla’s Interview with Me On “Out of Our Minds” on KKUP Cupertino | San Jose

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

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

Anatomy of a Book Cover

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from “The Necessity to Speak,” by Sam Hamill

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

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

The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma

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

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

Lines That Didn’t Make the Cut: Remembering Claudia

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

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

Craft Talk 1: Quincy Troupe’s Rhythm

My Year Long Writing Project

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

Prepping For Fall 2018: The Poetry Workshop

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

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

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

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from “The Necessity to Speak,” by Sam Hamill

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 God’s Phallus, by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz

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

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A Great Video on Racism by Maz Jobrani

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

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

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

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

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

Some Thoughts About Harvey Weinstein and What He Represents

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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

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

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