Points of View

Abdikadir Moalim Abukar

The Importance of education:

Education is the way to success. Without education the world would become pitch black and no one would be able to live.

  1. Without education life would not exist.
  2. Without education there would be no peace.
  3. Love among the youth:
    • No life without love
    • No world without love
    • No peace without love
    • No relationship without love
    • No reproduction without love
    • Love brings peace and harmony
    • Without love the world will not exist
  4. World:
    • The world is rotating
    • And the people are acting
    • And the time is going
    • The rivers are flowing
    • The people are reproducing
    • The people are inventing many things
    • Some are dying, some are growing
    • I don’t really know where the world is going

Happening Now

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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