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Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment (Part 3): Gwendolyn Brooks

Welcome to the third segment of Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment: June 7, 2017, marked the centennial of the birth of Gwendolyn Brooks, (she died December 2000), who in 1950 became the first African American–and at the time the youngest American–to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her…

October 9, 2021
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Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment Part 2: Jalal al-Din Rumi

“Simple, sincere, and selfless, Rumi was respected because he respected others. He was considerate even towards his enemies…” — Afzal Iqbal

October 2, 2021
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Part 1: Introduction to Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment

Consider that members of various “demographic groups” in different nations have begun to assert claims to political power at the same time that unavoidable historical population shifts are already in progress. Nearly everyone recognizes the need for greater social harmony as these shifts progress, yet many insist on touting reactionary…

October 2, 2021
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Reading Rumi after 9/11 and again at the end of the War in Afghanistan (part 1)

Can Poetry and the Taliban Coexist? Aside from being a country plagued by a succession of wars and economic woes, Afghanistan is also the birthplace of one of the great figures of world literature: Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Rumi. ..

September 24, 2021