Filling the Well: Nizar Qabbani and Quixotic

 

Jill Wellington

 

Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook 

 

– Nizar Qabbani

   from the poem "Light is more important than the lantern"

 

"Dancing with light" 

performed by Quixotic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKIvop5hJ90

April 1: John Muir

April 2: e.e. cummings and enra

April 3: Edith Wharton and Henri Matisse

April 4: Cesare Pavese 

April 5: Anton Chekhov and Cat Stevens

April 6: Ray Bradbury and... cats 

April 7: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Hanjin Song

April 8: Albert Einstein and John Bohannon

April 9: Florence Parry Heide and Andres Amador

April 10: Zelda Fitzgerald and Arvo Pärt

April 11: Elinor Wylie

April 12: David Ault and Imogen Heap

April 13: William Shakespeare and Alice Tzue

April 14: Bruce Garrabrandt and OK Go

April 15: Anne Kent Rush and Bill T. Jones

April 16: Carl Sandburg, Raymond Crowe, and Louis Armstrong

April 17: Jean Houston and Lunch Break Quartet

April 18: John Milton 

April 19: Dante Alighieri, Don Francis, and Gregory Alan Isakov

April 20: Theodore Roethke and Charles Reznikoff

April 21: Octavio Paz and Salvador Dalí

April 22: Vincent van Gogh and Katsushika Hokusai

April 23: Nizar Qabbani and Quixotic

 

Catherine Flynn has been "Writing Wild" this month. Join her at Reading to the Core for this week's Poetry Friday roundup.