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In My Dream Patience covers the earth like a down blanket that warms fingers in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, the West Bank, Gaza, India, Africa, Bosnia, the United States. In My Dream Humility is a mansion whose roof oversees soldiers shedding guns and whose rooms house world leaders shaking hands. In My Dream Gentleness is no coward. Love is borderless. Beams of light have not replaced the two towers. Danny Pearl is alive. In My Dream Poetry raises children who know peace.                -Esther Altshul Helfgott [Anna Helfgott's "Unity"]

Seattle Participants John Akins Betsy Bell Crysta Casey Danika Dinsmore Irene Drennan Larry Ebersole Christina Eisen Jack Evans Esther Altshul Helfgott Victor Hellberg David Horowitz Rosie Hower Kelly Riggle Hower Donald Kentop Priscilla Long Diana Ma Jill McGrath Alisa Minkina Denise Calvetti Michaels Kathleen Notley Nancy Peacock Garylee Johnson Sherry Reniker Darby Ringer Abe Schweid Ellen Setteducati Ken Shiovitz Ron Starr Diane Westergaard .

DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH POETRY

Seattle Participants John Akins Betsy Bell Crysta Casey Danika Dinsmore Irene Drennan Larry Ebersole Christina Eisen Jack Evans Esther Altshul Helfgott Victor Hellberg David Horowitz Rosie Hower Kelly Riggle Hower Donald Kentop Priscilla Long Diana Ma Jill McGrath Alisa Minkina Denise Calvetti Michaels Kathleen Notley Nancy Peacock Garylee Johnson Sherry Reniker Darby Ringer Abe Schweid Ellen Setteducati Ken Shiovitz Ron Starr Diane Westergaard .

In My Dream Patience covers the earth like a down blanket that warms fingers in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, the West Bank, Gaza, India, Africa, Bosnia, the United States. In My Dream Humility is a mansion whose roof oversees soldiers shedding guns and whose rooms house world leaders shaking hands. In My Dream Gentleness is no coward. Love is borderless. Beams of light have not replaced the two towers. Danny Pearl is alive. In My Dream Poetry raises children who know peace.                -Esther Altshul Helfgott [Anna Helfgott's "Unity"]

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DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH POETRY WEEK in Seattle, WA.       Monday 18 March 2002 Seattle Public Library, University Branch hosted by It's About Time Writers Reading Series In conjuction with: DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH POETRY WEEK .

Over Hair Brushings                for Agostina Gonella Bianco, 1887-1981                           1. I learned Nonna Agonstina's stories summers on the farm in Salinas Valley where fog rolls in even in July. Sparrows and crows in rows on clotheslines anchored mornings as I spooned Spreckle's brown sugar over steaming cream of wheat When sun broke through, she'd tease out stories brushing and combing and brushing my hair. Weaving ribbons to dance to accordion polkas in my braids, she told me - Blame is an ugly animal.  No one wants him. 2. My grandmother's hands cannot carry logic. If she lived her life in Montaldo Scarumpi, Italian village of her birth, she'd take after her mother, not a saint, but a mediator, weighing for the people their baskets of sorrow, holding their questions, taking from her pockets, balm, a peacemaker. 3. Twirling unruly cowlicks I feel where a lesson, an opening, a kind of insight was planted.                            -Denise Calvetti Michaels