Watching the news and paying some fleeting attention to the situation in Gaza (I've become apathetic to the struggle between 2 groups fighting over land given to them by an invisible Real Estate broker), I was reminded of Suheir Hammad. I had a class with her at Hunter College and the few times that she spoke she seemed like an incredibly ditzy girl. It wasn't until after college that I found out from a mutual friend that she was a published poet. I still had my doubts about that until I saw her a few years ago on Def Poetry (which is the video above).
Watch it. It's powerful.
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