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Naomi Shihab Nye

What Doesn’t Change

February 24, 2015 by Ana Maria Caballero

Written by Arab-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye, the poem below is launched in a childish tone, but closes in a distinctly mature voice. For me, this combination of child/adult voices is what makes the poem interesting, what makes it work. Otherwise, the piece stands the risk of being another doe-eyed “barrio” poem. But it is not. It is a rather masterful poem representative of Nye’s highly respected and abundant body of work. Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change Roselva says the […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, literature, poet, poetry, reading, writers, writing

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Cineastas

February 24, 2015 by William Eaton

Between the invention of movies and the year 2013, approximately 400,000 films have been made worldwide. Were someone to try to watch all of these films, without a moment’s pause, it would take about 92 years. Our fictions last longer than our lives. . . . [H]ay cosas que son efímeras, las vidas, las relaciones, las familias, y otras que duran para siempre, como algunas ciudades o las grandes marcas del capitalismo. (Some things are ephemeral—things like lives, relationships, families—and […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: film, Hispanic, theater

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The drawbacks of ethnic product placement

February 23, 2015 by Alexia Raynal

Or On the Importance of Inclusion To some extent, ethnic art (including film and literature) has been recognized as an empowering tool for minorities. Latino and African-American advocates have consistently pushed for the inclusion of content reflecting the lives and struggles of people of color in art and at school. But while these stories have gradually made it into the market, they have nonetheless preserved their ethnic labels. For example, movies with African-American casts are usually labeled as ethnic films rather […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: African-Americans, art, books, children, education, film, literature, reading, writing

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Lu Zhang, Artist and Daughter of China

February 19, 2015 by William Eaton

  One cannot ignore or underestimate the emotional depth associated with traditional Confucian values in China, specifically in relation to the social environment and parental feelings imposed on a single daughter. Any attempt by her to break away from the conservative expectations of the traditional family unit often results in conflict. The artist Lu Zhang was born and raised in Xi’an, a major historical center in the heart of China. For her to leave this region and come to New […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz • Tags: art, love, Lu Zhang

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Carol Ann Duffy

Nothing my thumbs press will ever be heard

February 17, 2015 by Ana Maria Caballero

I keep coming back to this poem by British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy again and again. There is a myth among poetry writers that poets will only ever write a few perfect poems. Well, I think this is part of her (quite ample) list of absolutely perfect poems.  It is from her collection “Rapture,” which won the T.S. Elliot Prize and should be on every poetry fan’s bookshelf. Text I tend the mobile now like  an injured bird We […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, lit, literature, love, poetry, reading, writing

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Michael “Little B” Lewis, abandoned orphan who has spent more continuous time incarcerated than any person starting his sentence at the same age.

How to treat a boy convicted at age 13

February 16, 2015 by Alexia Raynal

Last month, The Daily Kos published an article written by Shaun King about Michael “Little B” Lewis, a 13-year-old Atlanta resident who was convicted for murder in 1997. In one of the first paragraphs, King explains: [Lewis’s] story had gripped the city and was regularly on the nightly news and on the front page of the AJC. They said he murdered a dad in cold blood in front of his kids on January 21, 1997. I didn’t know if it was true or not, but […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, civil rights, crime, education, politics

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The Death of Free Speech

February 16, 2015 by fritztucker

(Warning: The above video depicts or describes the murder of several individuals, including children.) The recent shooting in Copenhagen, like most terrorist acts, was reprehensible, unforgivable, ineffective, and immature. At the same time, holding a free speech conference in Copenhagen seems somewhat masturbatory. According to the Committee To Protect Journalists, no Danish journalists have been killed since at least 1992; whereas the most deadly country in the world for journalists in the last two decades has been Iraq, with Syria in distant […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: civil rights, Copenhagen, ethics, free speech, media, politics, war

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“I may not be able to read or write—but I have the capacity to die!”

February 11, 2015 by William Eaton

I come back to this famous photo, from 1960, of U.S. Marshals escorting Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. I come back to this photo after seeing documentary footage of Martin Luther King preaching, in April 1963, to black people in a church in Montgomery: You know when I say “Don’t be afraid,” you know what I really mean—don’t even be afraid to die! But I submit to you tonight, no man […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: Civil Rights Movement, courage, documentaries, Martin Luther King, New York Review of Books, poor doors, Ruby Bridges, Selma, speeches

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I Take It Back

February 10, 2015 by Ana Maria Caballero

This will be my third and last post on Chilean poet Nicanor Parra, a former mathematician who is famous as Latin America’s straight-talking alternative to flowery verse.  Parra recently turned 100 and is still doing well, an impressive feat for any being. After most of his recitals he would say “I take back everything I’ve said.” Below is a poem that summarizes the poet’s (anti) attitude.   I Take Back Everything I’ve Said Before I go I’m supposed to get a […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, literature, Nicanor Parra, poetry, reading, writing

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