Special Interview series Urdu writers. Rebuilding Mosul, book by book. Before the war, it was strange to see smoke in the sky. The smoke he saw earlier that day was from the library at Mosul University. The men who had taken over his city, and made reading books into a crime, had burned down. It was February 3, 2015 the 219th day of the caliphate. When Fahad finally proposed to her, it was.

Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle. Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle. July Westhale Reads in Tucson, April 16. Westhale Makes A Splash with Trailer Trash.

I will not pace myself With fiction. Rehan, It did take an inordinate time to reach me. Read the first Part here.

Art Festival - Kilkenny, Ireland. Around the Table in the SF Chronicle. Around the Table in the San Jose Mercury News. Check out December 2013s Bitch magazine. Read more in the AALRs special edition issue on Mixed Race. Check out this 5 minute talk. From the Asian Art Museums Baat Cheet event. Check out this artist feature by Dorothy Santos in print and online.

Thanks for stopping by! We invite you to look around, check out an Interview or Book Review or learn something new about the spoken word poetry world we all love! Interview with Mercedez Holtry. In March of 2015, Mercedez took her stories to the Women of the World Poetry Slam, promoting awareness of the hardships she and the Chicano community around her have faced regarding issues of identity, poverty, and racism. Neil Hilborn speaks about Northbound.

For love that you want to burn down. Crimson Reds And Pitch Blacks. In your eyes will rage a thousand fires,. You have loved and will love a lot more,. But these fires can burn down every little thing you worked for. I know you feel so helpless that raging tides of tears well up. You contain oceans within that tiny body of yours. A leaf under frozen waters.