Joseph Conrad talked about literature being “the inner news,” the news of the heart and the spirit. We all need to develop a relationship to hope.
It is certainly time to tune into Inner News!
Join us October 11th, at 11am (PST) where we will be graced with a joint reading by Palestinian poet Basman Derawi and Israeli poet Michal Rubin.
Basman Derawi is a physiotherapist and a graduate of Al-Azhar University in Gaza in 2010. Inspired by an interest in music, movies, and people with special needs, he contributes dozens of stories/poems to the online platform We Are Not Numbers and other platforms including Vivamost, Mondoweiss, ArabLit, and Written Revolution. He has contributed to the Arabic poetry anthology, Gaza: Land of Poetry, 2021 and to the English anthology, Light in Gaza: Writing Born in Fire, 2022.
Michal Rubin is an Israeli, living in Columbia, SC for the past 33 years. The impetus for her writing came from the years-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As a psychotherapist, a Cantor and a poet, she brings forth the challenge of distinguishing truths from myths, awareness vs. denial, conformity vs. individuation. Her work has been published in Psychotic Education, The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, Wrath Bearing Tree journal, Rise Up Journal, Topical Poetry, Fall-Lines, The Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Waxing & Waning: A Literary Journal, South Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology 2023, Palestine-Israel Journal, The New Verse News, Dissident Voice, and a chapbook, Home Visit, published by Cathexis Northwest Press.
Here’s the Zoom link (feel free to extend the invitation to anyone you know who might be interested):
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9250031300
As always, the reading will be followed by an open Q & A.