Author of 🇵🇸 If You Cannot Say Genocide & 15 other books
Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience
Liberties | Salmagundi | The New Statesman
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Yahia Lababidi
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Life imitating art #Egypt
How can a kitchen, a shoreline, or a childhood home reveal the landscapes we carry within us?
Join me for an interactive poetry tutorial exploring memory, place, sensory detail, and the art of showing rather than telling. Writers of all levels welcome. richard-blanco.com/workshops/
Yahia Lababidi
A prayer for guidance
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Only Love
Writing a book is hard, because you are “giving yourself away.” But if you love, you want to give yourself…
You write about yourself because in the long run all man’s problems are the same, his human needs of sustenance and love.
—Dorothy Day
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Not thinking exactly, but touching the thought of thought, as one would touch the tender, buzzing edges of a wound.
—John Banville
4-Word Bio:
Part warrior,
part worrier.
Yahia Lababidi
Yahia Lababidi
As though reading an invisible book, or being read by one...
There are hours when everything creaks youtu.be/O88-j6S8wF4 #poetry
Yahia Lababidi
The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.
— John Banville
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#writingcommunity #quotes
“When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it’s finished. A certain point comes at which you can’t do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.”
