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| Date | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Poets Meet-Up | Temecula, CA | |
| Poetry Foundation Staff and Friends New Books Celebration | Chicago, IL | |
| The O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Finale Reading | Washington, DC | |
| Resist & Revel: An Asian & Pacific Islander Poetry Celebration | Washington, DC | |
| Poetry at AlainaRay’s! | Elk Grove , CA | |
| Poets Meet-Up | Temecula, CA | |
| IAWA Reading Series with Jennifer Militello and Donna Masini | New York, NY | |
| Ed Roberson Fuller Award Celebration | Chicago, IL | |
| Poets Meet-Up | Temecula, CA | |
| Freeport Folio’s Open Mic Poetry With Featured Poet Richard Blanco | Freeport, ME |
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue, Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls, and, yes, you can feel happy with one piece of your heart. Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends. Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves. Late, you sit weighing the evening news, fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions, the rest of your heart.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough
for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
call it a philosophy of life, if you will. Briefly,
it involved living the way philosophers live,
according to a set of principles. OK, but which ones?
Maha Hashwi is a Lebanese American poet. She received her MA in environmental public health from New York University.
Deahna Fumarol is a poet. She lives in Toledo, Oregon, on the ancestral lands of the Yaqo’n.
