Taha Muhammad Ali, the Palestinian poet, got the year's Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival off to a great start for me. The poet was fresh and expressive, his poems vibrant and beautiful -- Middle Eastern poets, both Arab and Israeli, have found a way to connect the world to the I with passion and are a growing influence on my own work.
In addition to Ali, others who electrified me -- and the crowd -- and drew me into their work for the first time included the African-Americans Kurtis Lampin and Sekou Sundiata, the Iraq war vet Brian Turner (his eulogy to a soldier who blew his head off was riveting) and Linda Hogan.
South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
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