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You’re Invited to Enjoy A Friday Evening of Poetry in Support of Girls’ Education
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Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai Has Arrived!
Buy Now! Proceeds benefit the Malala Fund. I’m so glad to have had a hand in this beautiful publication. The poems are wonderful and the cause even more so: supporting Malala Yousafzai‘s efforts to make education available to girls everywhere. Here’s the publisher’s description: On the one-year anniversary of 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai’s shooting by the Taliban for speaking out for the right of girls to an education, FutureCycle Press publishes Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai in her honor. Edited by poets Joseph Hutchison and Andrea L.Read More
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Press Release: Malala Anthology Coming October 9!
For the past year Andrea Watson and I have been working with Diane Kistner at FutureCycle Press on a Good Works anthology of poems for Malala Yousafzai. All proceeds benefit the Malala Fund, which is devoted to helping girls go to school and raise their voices for the right to education. Full details below. Note the link under the press release: the online version includes a sampling of poems from the book. The book will be released on October 9, and I urge you to put a reminder on your calendar to buy a copy or three.Read More
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Malala Yousafzai’s Inspiring U.N. Speech
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Happy New Year!
What better way to start the year than with this series of aphoristic poems by David Giannini? They appear in the first of what I hope will be many issues of Talisman Magazine online, where you’ll also find a clutch of unpublished late poems by the inimitable Samuel Menashe; a group of strange and resonant poems by Lale Müldür, translated from the Turkish by Lisa Bourbeau; and an excerpt from the never published but nevertheless legendary novel Junior Birdman (“The Holy Grail has but one drop left in it: the spirit of childhood”), by William J.Read More
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Malala Day
Pakistan marks “Malala Day”, poor children to get cash for school The families of more than 3 million poor children in Pakistan will receive cash stipends if their children go to school, the government said as officials prepared to mark “Malala Day” on Saturday in support of a schoolgirl shot by the Taliban. U.N. officials declared Malala Day one month after 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai and two of her classmates were shot by the Pakistan Taliban. She had been targeted for speaking out against the insurgency.Read More
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A Poetry Anthology for Malala Yousafzai: submissions call
Poetry Anthology for Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl was, on October 9, 2012, shot by a Taliban gunman as she was returning home from school. See article here. Malala is a blogger and education activist who has been speaking out against the unjust treatment of women in her own country.Diane Kistner, editor of FutureCycle Press, has invited Conrad DiDiodato and I to co-edit a poetry anthology honoring the life and values of Malala Yousafzai. All proceeds will go to a cause Malala would wish to support.Read More
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Malala
Malala Yousafzai Malala— the way forward’salways first into darkness,then through it— the light you carry,that old-soul courage— millions will follow ******** At the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai took on the Taliban by giving voice to her dreams. As turbaned fighters swept through her town in northwestern Pakistan in 2009, the tiny schoolgirl spoke out about her passion for education — she wanted to become a doctor, she said — and became a symbol of defiance against Taliban subjugation. On Tuesday, masked Taliban gunmen answered Ms.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
