Jabez L. Van Cleef

The Palimpsest of Human Rights

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Jabez L. Van Cleef

The Palimpsest of Human Rights is an experimental spoken word production which combines verse interpretations of the prose writings of Marti…

The Birth of Propaganda

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Jabez L. Van Cleef

"The Birth of Propaganda" is poetic adaptation of the essay "Propaganda in a Democratic Society," by Aldous Huxley, whic…

All Is Beautiful: The Navajo Creation Story

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Jabez L. Van Cleef

Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens…

God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems

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Jabez L. Van Cleef

The Sami, who call themselves "the real people," are nomadic indigenous people of Northern Scandinavia and adjacent areas of Russi…