New York, March 30—The Academy of American Poets announced today that Carl Adamshick has been selected by the poet Marvin Bell as the recipient of the 2010 Walt Whitman Award.
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a part of a body of people
separated breath by breath,
a soft curve of a comma?
How different from the exclamation
Who do you think you are!


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I feel so ripe
As if, I was just born from that tall tree in the garden.
I even feel leafy
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To everyone celebrating Nowruz around the world, may you have a peaceful and prosperous new year.......
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Suppression, I accept not
by Bhuwan Thapaliya

I came
into this world
not like the river
but like a drop of water
and will soon evaporate
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The recycled woman
Has a heart filled with fumigated love
All her dreams will be reborn again
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This poem has political and racial messages. Although the poem “Dream” is a delicate poem it contains the harsh reality of racial issues that existed and to some degree still exists in America.
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Eduardo Galeano (1940) is a Uruguayan journalist and writer. His most famous work, The Open Veins of America (1971), has been translated into over twenty languages. The following very short story is from his work entitled El libro de los abrazos (The Book of Embraces) (1989), a book of around 200 stories and prose ideas, nearly all of them less than one page.
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See MahMag editor-in-chief Mahnaz Badihian discuss MahMag's first publication Protest of the Pen: An Anthology Iran Summer 2009 (In Persian) on Voice of America

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They sleep who know a regulated place
or pulse or tide or changing sky
according to some universal
stage direction obvious
like shorewashed shells
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King understood people, he understood that it is the seemingly powerless who are in fact most powerful, and that is something many of us celebrate every single day.
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There is only cartilage, only bones.
I must stitch together gashes that I did not produce.
I must put together the pieces of a cranium.
I am too human to live in peace.

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Listening to father’s rhythmic movement around the house
I could hear the softness of his black leather shoes
As he put them on, and holding
A white china bowl painted with red roses
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Mr Jara was arrested, tortured and killed just days after the coup that brought Pinochet to power in 1973.

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