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FOLLOW, POET

Composer Mohammed Fairouz It’s premature to relegate poetry to mausoleums or crypts.  In some places in the world, people cry, break down and weep to poetry.  They lose it.  It happens in well-worn cafés in Middle Eastern cities like Cairo, … Continue reading

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WHAT WOULD BAUDELAIRE DO?

I know, poets are said to have beautiful words but no practical action. Still, I began to wonder what Baudelaire, French poet par excellence, bad boy and scowling melancholic, would say about France and its current crisis of post-attack polarization. … Continue reading

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