{"id":3326,"date":"2015-01-14T18:15:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2015-03-27T00:52:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:52:11","slug":"rushing-to-the-metro-already-a-little-late-on-my-way-to-ballet-i-nearly-skid-on-acorns-catch-myself-a-poem-by-lyn-lifshin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/rushing-to-the-metro-already-a-little-late-on-my-way-to-ballet-i-nearly-skid-on-acorns-catch-myself-a-poem-by-lyn-lifshin\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSHING TO THE METRO ALREADY A LITTLE LATE ON MY WAY TO BALLET I NEARLY SKID ON ACORNS, CATCH MYSELF. A Poem by Lyn Lifshin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMalala Yousafzai is a teenager from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where the Taliban banned girls from attending school. Known for her education and women\u2019s rights activism, Malala, then fifteen, was shot in the head and neck by a Taliban gunman while returning home on a school bus on October 9, 2012. She survived. She has written an autobiography, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. In 2013, at sixteen, she became the youngest person ever nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. and this year she won it.<\/strong>
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\nMalala<\/a>
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\nRUSHING TO THE METRO ALREADY A LITTLE LATE ON MY WAY TO BALLET I NEARLY SKID ON ACORNS, CATCH MYSELF
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\nI think of Malala, maybe rushing, never
\nwanting to think her name means “grief
\nstricken,” as I’ve written a poem about
\nbecoming what you\u2019re called. Maybe
\nshe was humming a song she heard once
\non TV before the Taliban made it a crime.
\nOr she was watching leaves drift from the bus
\nor giggling with girl friends. Maybe
\nshe was thinking of being a doctor and
\ncoming back to treat young children
\nin her region, her swat. Or maybe she
\nwas hoping to see a certain boy with
\nlicorice eyes and a smile who always
\nmade her giggle. No longer able to wear
\nschool uniforms, told to wear plain
\nclothes, Malala wrote in her blog,
\n“Instead, I decided to wear my favorite
\npink dress.” Maybe the last beautiful
\nthing she saw as the bullet entered her
\nmahogany curls until later she woke
\nup in the hospital’s cone of light. <\/strong>
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\n\"GROLIER<\/a>
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\nLyn Lifshin has published over 140 books and chapbooks and edited three anthologies of women’s writing including Tangled Vines<\/em> that stayed in print 20 years. She has several books from Black Sparrow books. Her web site, www.lynlifshin.com shows the variety of her work from the equine books, The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian and Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness <\/em>to recent books about dance: Ballroom, Knife Edge and Absinthe: The Tango Poems.<\/em> Other new books include For the Roses, poems for Joni Mitchell, All The Poets Who Touched Me; A Girl goes Into The Woods; Malala, Tangled as the Alphabet: The Istanbul Poems<\/em>. Also just out: Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle; Malala and Luminous Women: Enheducanna, Scheherazade and Nefertiti.<\/em> web site: www.lynlifshin.com<\/a><\/strong>
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