I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

IN THE DARK WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF FACED WITH A LOW HEART CLOSE YOUR EYES AND TRAVEL BEYOND SEA AND EARTH FIND WITH YOUR SOUL THOUGH A THOUSAND MILES IN A FAR FAR AWAY PLACE THE ONE WHO GIVES YOU A SMILE WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF SOMEWHERE IN

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 Leaning on his hands over his hoe, Calin stared at Thoronton Province in the distance and remembered how much his mother loved to walk the streets, look into the shops, and talk with

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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I was kind of nervous about doing my job... Can you imagine yourself as a teenager trying out?"

A Poetry Out Loud Interview with Elizabeth Seydel Morgan


Poetry Out Loud logoWith the state finals of the 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Competition under way around the country, Poetry Daily has been following the competition in Virginia.

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“God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.”

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.  I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.  I was naïve.  I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.  It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:  that I am nobody but myself.  ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

Now that the days of glitz and glamour in the art market are over, how will creativity be affected? Some

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"I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else."Giorgio Morandi

By   Arwa Aburawa
Freelance Journalist - UK
Title: Lemon Tree
Year: 2008
Director: Eran Riklis
Leads: Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Doran Tovery and Rona Lipaz-Michael
Language: Arabic and Hebrew
Length: 106 minutes
"Trees are like people, they have souls, they have feelings. They need to be talked to, need tender loving care." (Abu Hussam in Lemon Tree)

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