Elmaz Abinader's Blog

• Record! I am Arab!-------------I too Sing America-- -----How can poetry be so, so....? direct?

  August 26, 2008

  • Nothing will carry us: not the road, nor home.

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• For Mahmoud Darwish--poem

  August 11, 2008

  • He says, on the verge of death, he says,

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• My chest quakes, an emptiness. Celebrating and Mourning Mahmoud Darwish, The World's Most Important and Resonant Poet

  August 10, 2008

  •  He says, on the verge of death, he says,
    “I have no more earth to lose”

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• What's a writer doing in a library?

  August 1, 2008

  • The first time I got punished at my Catholic elementary school i had turned around in church to see if my older sister had arrived.

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• Thinking About Titles

  July 20, 2008

  • Today when writing a bio for an anthology that picked up one of my poems, I changed the title of my new memoir, again.

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• Todays writing cost $9.36 including tip

  July 12, 2008

  • I am a cafe writer. I love my house, really I do, with the large sunny rooms, the refreshing garden and yes, a studio in the back.

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• Our Corner of the World (www.voicesatvona.org)

  July 2, 2008

  • The Publishing seminar takes place in the VONA Writers Room. A glass encased lounge in Phelan Hall at the University of San Francisco.

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• How not to colonize, minimize, occupy, settle,...and other acts of tyranny

  June 28, 2008

  • If you meet an Indian women, don't say, saris are so beautiful, I'm thinking of getting one

    If you meet an Indian man, don't say, I thought all the jobs were over there now

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• When writers of color come together the sky opens (Hey Bay Area!)

  June 24, 2008

  • Thursday June 26,  Thomas Glave, Faith Adiele, Ruth Forman, Gregory Allen Howard, Diem Jones, Elmaz Abinader with Tony Khalife--hosted by Aimee Alllison

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• The Size of a Mother's Palm

  June 10, 2008

  • In the back of the July 2008 Good Housekeeping Magazine, is a little excerpt from my forthcoming memoir, Country of Origin.

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• Mudding the Hut

  June 6, 2008

  • In fifteen days, the participants for the Voices workshop (http://www.voicesatvona.org/) will arrive in San Francisco.  Our two weeks of workshops at USF

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• On the Anthology Diet

  May 30, 2008

  • I'm a slow writer. Poems enter at will; the chapters of the memoir and the novel flow slow blood through my arms.

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• In Memory of Reginald Lockett--Oakland Poet

  May 19, 2008

  • It's the calm before the storm.

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• VONA

  April 24, 2008

  • The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) www.voicesatvona.org is wrapping up the application process for 08.

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