By Jan Willis — 2019
To change the world, says Jan Willis, we need hope. And hope grows from nonviolent actions, no matter how small.
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Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action.
An in-depth conversation on how Camille fell in love with Rumi, the Sufi path and what it brought to her heart.
Poems for accepting all that you are―including those parts of yourself that you wish you could disown “Give yourself permission to rest, and be silent, and do nothing. Love this aloneness, friend. Fall into it. (Don’t worry. You won’t disappear. I am here to catch you.
This poem about discovery, change, and transformation contains Whitman's arguably most famous lines: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” In respect of copyright, we cannot display the poem here. Click the link to read it.
In respect of copyright, we cannot display the poem here. Click the link to read it.
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Clifton & Sanchez - Mirrors & Windows 10/24/2001 at The New School, New York, NY. Moderated by Eisa Davis.