Street mural for Grenfell Tower, with poem by Ben Okri, North Kensington, London, image courtesy of IranWire and #PaintTheChange.
London-based writer Malu Halasa canvasses the Middle Eastern a…
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August 10, 2012Photo by HollyColleen/FlickrSouthbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus partnered with Chilean arts collective Casagrande in the “Rain of Poems,” dropping 100,000 bookmarks featuring the work of three hu…
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