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What is the biggest challenge facing the arts?/ Dana Gioia

If we create kids who are essentially lulled into a kind of comfortable, stress-free existence by being mildly entertained all the time, I don’t think that we’re going to have the heroes, the saints, the reformers that

Poetry

Sunset Poetry By the Bay

Mahnaz Badihian along with four other poets reading at 333 studio in Sausalito CA

Poetry, The City

Victoria Bosch Murray – Traveling Mercies

Let the train be there.
Let it be the right train.

Poetry, The City

Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Quiet
calling the hawk
over sleeping construction sites

Poetry, The City

Anis Shivani – The Berlin Wall

Did the wall fall out of the sky?
Did the wall have to come?

Poetry, The City

Angela Narciso Torres _Driving My Mother

Umbrellas, because her pinky caught in one
once, in a typhoon.

Art, The City

michele guieu

Michele Guieu presents three works for MahMag’s The City Issue.

Poetry

Celebrating Norouz /by Mahnaz Badihian

We had to throw those planted grains
In any river or running water we could see

Poetry, The City

Ghazel (9/10/11)

Won’t you stay, beloved. Coals glowing, we abide

Poetry

DNA by Mahnaz Badihian

Is my name more difficult than Deoxyribonucleic acid?

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