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		<title>In my own words</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2010/12/04/in-my-own-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“And it was at that age &#8230; Poetry arrived in search of me. I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don&#8217;t know how or when, no they were not voices, they were not words, nor silence, but from a street I was summoned, from the branches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Painting and a Poem for Haïti</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2010/10/18/a-painting-and-a-poem-for-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” (Goethe) Well, on Wednesday, October 13th, the crowd at the MoCADA did all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our grief will not silence us</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2010/10/15/our-grief-will-not-silence-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Granmè Mélina once told a story about a daughter whose father had died.  The daughter loved her father so much that her heart was shattered into a hundred pieces.  When it came time to plan for the jubilant country wake. which was once held the night before all funerals, the daughter wanted no part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Senhor Saramago</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2010/06/19/goodbye-senhor-saramago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I insist that everything is biography. Everything is life: lived, painted and written.&#8221; José Saramago Saramago is a wild herbaceous plant whose leaves, in difficult times, served as nourishment for the poor.  Saramago is also a literary genius. These definitions are not mutually exclusive since José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who died this morning, also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Haïti</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2010/05/22/welcome-to-haiti-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 01:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m home. This landscape is mine: the fruit merchants, the colored vans, the dust. The heat is mine; the late sun. I’m home.]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation with the &quot;Phenomenal Woman&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2010/05/14/conversation-with-the-phenomenal-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["I rise"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou &#38; Michèle Voltaire Marcelin Life Gift: Sharing a blessed moment with Maya Angelou, reciting her poem &#8220;I Rise&#8221; with her: &#8220;You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I&#8217;ll rise. Out of the huts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>love declaration</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2009/02/12/love-declaration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the gardens of my youth, trees were green and love was easy. Easy for me to feel, that is. That was before I realized others believed it was a war where all blows were allowed.]]></description>
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		<title>of wine and roses</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2009/01/27/of-wine-and-roses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love reading wine reviews. While some wine critics write well &#8211; and I enjoy reading inspiring and lyrical prose- the affectations of others and their utter nonsense make me hoot with laughter. So I&#8217;m happy either way. Witness the story (told by wine critic Jonathan Meades) of an American nouveau-wine connaisseur who was visiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bottled poetry</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2009/01/26/bottled-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;Wine is bottled poetry.&#8221; Robert Louis Stevenson Wine and poetry have always made great companions. In regards to poetry, I have willingly followed Baudelaire&#8217;s invocation: &#8220;Enivrez-vous, enivrez-vous sans cesse&#8230;Get drunk, get drunk all the time! On wine, on poetry or on virtue &#8211; just as you please&#8230;&#8221; and I&#8217;m very fond of the Omar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>perfume</title>
		<link>http://www.lidous.net/2009/01/22/perfume/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Voltaire Marcelin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[patrick Suskind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smells can invoke memories, sexually arouse you, or even drive you mad&#8230; There are perfumes as fresh as children&#8217;s flesh, as sweet as oboes, as green as prairies, and others corrupted, rich and triumphant that sing the ecstasies of the mind and senses&#8230; writes French poet Baudelaire in Corrrespondances, while the great French perfumer Jacques [...]]]></description>
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