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A Poem for International Kissing Day
Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998) Syrian poet, diplomat, and women’s rights activist, serving in Syrian missions in Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul, Madrid, and London, and as UAR Vice-Secretary at their Chinese embassy. His sister’s suicide under pressure when she refused to marry a man … Continue reading
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ON THIS DAY: March 21, 2020
March 21st is International Day of Forests * French Bread Day Common Courtesy Day Single Parent Day * Down Syndrome Day * Education Freedom Day * World Poetry Day * International Colour Day International Day for the Eliminationof Racial Discrimination * … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Henry, Amina Claudine Myers, Ananda Lewis, Benito Juárez, Debi Thomas, Nizar Qabbani, Walter Lincoln Hawkins
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Word Cloud: EXTRAVAGANT (Redux for Poetry Month)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is just a breath of Purtianism lurking in most American poetry. We admire the winnowing of excess words, the spareness of poets like Frost and Sandburg and the prose of Hemingway and Steinbeck. American poets … Continue reading
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Tagged Extravagant, Middle East, Nizar Qabbani, Omar Khayyam, Syria, Thomas Gray, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: EXTRAVAGANT
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is just a breath of Purtianism lurking in most American poetry. We admire the winnowing of excess words, the spareness of poets like Frost and Sandburg and the prose of Hemingway and Steinbeck. American poets … Continue reading
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Tagged Extravagant, Jane Austen, Nizar Qabbani, Omar Khayyam, Six Day War, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: March 21, 2017
March 21st is International Day of Forests * Common Courtesy Day French Bread Day National Memory Day Single Parent Day * Twitter Day * World Poetry Day * World Down Syndrome Day * International Day for the Elimination of Racial … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Antonia Maury, Benito Juárez, Kate Smith, Madonna, Mary Dixon Kies, Nizar Qabbani, Phyllis McGinley
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