Louise Glück is an American poet and essayist, born on April 22, 1943 in New York City. She is a winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is known for her elegant and precise style, and her work often focuses on themes of personal loss and nature. Glück has published numerous collections of poetry, including “First Born” (1968), “The Wild Iris” (1992), and “Averno” (2006). Her work has been widely acclaimed and she is considered one of the most important poets of her generation.

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Yahia Lababidi, Lebanese-Egyptian-American, is the author of 11 critically-acclaimed books of aphorisms, essays, poetry and conversations. Lababidi's latest is Quarantine Notes (Fomite Press, 2023) short meditations composed during our global pandemic. Previous publications include: Desert Songs (Rowayat, 2022) a bilingual, photographic account of his desert retreats in Egypt; Learning to Pray (Kelsay Books, 2021) a collection of spiritual aphorisms and poems; as well as Revolutions of the Heart (Wipf & Stock, 2020) a mixed-genre compendium of his essays and conversations on crises and transformation. To view short literary videos, regularly, posted by Yahia Lababidi on his active YouTube channel, please, subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi Lababidi is also the author of 2 celebrated books of aphorisms: Signposts to Elsewhere (Hay House, 2019) and Where Epics Fail (Unbound, 2018) — the latter which he was invited by Oxford University to launch in the UK. Featured on PBS NewsHour, Lababidi's aphorisms are generously endorsed by President Obama's inaugural poet, Richard Blanco. Lababidi's Balancing Acts: New & Selected Poems (1993-2015) debuted at #1 on Amazon's Hot New Releases. His work has appeared on NPR, ABC Radio National, HBO, Best American Poetry, AGNI, World Literature Today, On Being with Krista Tippett and Lababidi has participated in international poetry festivals throughout the USA, Eastern Europe as well as the Middle East. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, three times, Lababidi's writing has been translated into several languages, including: Arabic, Hebrew, Slovak, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, and Swedish.

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer born on January 6, 1883 in Bsharri, Lebanon. He is best known for his book “The Prophet,” a collection of 26 prose poems that explores themes of love, death, work, reason, and more. This book has been translated into over 40 languages and is considered a classic of spiritual literature. He immigrated to the United States in 1895 and began writing poetry in both English and Arabic. He was an influential figure in the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 60s and his works continue to inspire and impact people around the world today.

I don't call myself a poet but my interest in writing began with poetry when I was in high school and then university. Poetry is one form of communication by which we express our thoughts, observations, feelings, emotions and views about the world around us, our interactions and the issues affecting the society or us as human beings. When we become silent, passive, conniving or collaborative in all forms of vileness such as vice, dishonesty, fraudulence, venality and so forth, it is just as good as us swimming in a pool of contaminated water. We must restrain ourselves from getting involved in any form of vileness and make sure that our countrymen and women, including our children, are not getting infected by it. This is the direction of most of the pieces in this collection and they are aimed at educating both old and young Papua New Guineans to become patriotic about their motherland by being conscious of the evils affecting our country so they can play their part in building a prosperous and progressive nation. | Author: Francis Nii | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform | Publication Date: Nov 04, 2017 | Number of Pages: 106 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1979425310 | ISBN-13: 9781979425315