About Jennifer @jenhijaz
Jennifer Hijazi is a news assistant at PBS NewsHour.
Jennifer’s Recent Stories
Poetry May 22
This Ramadan poem celebrates the ‘unknowability of the divine’Poet Kazim Ali thinks the fluidity of traditions is an important part of understanding Ramadan.
Poetry May 14
A poet’s advice to new grads: Be curious, embrace failure and ‘jump’Poet Jason Reynolds offers sage advice to graduates ... and the rest of us.
Poetry May 07
How Zora Neale Hurston captured the poetry of African-American folklifeA long-lost manuscript by the famed author is finally being published.
Poetry Apr 30
The poet laureate wants you to read this poem"There is so much noise in our culture. So many frantic, angry, unreliable voices.... Poetry is an antidote to that."…
Poetry Apr 24
A poet’s love letters to the outdoorsPoet Aimee Nezhukumatathil writes a love letter to the planet in her latest poetry collection "Oceanic."…
Arts Apr 11
A poet’s field notes, ‘ending in a deportation’In his new collection, poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s imagery and dream-like phrases allow him to speak of his immigration status in a way he hadn’t been able to before.
Poetry Apr 02
A poem for Flint, four years after the water crisis beganTarfia Faizullah's poem “I Told the Water” brings water to life and unpacks its role in our lives -- as mirror, life-giver and sometimes a villain.
Poetry Mar 28
Poetry and music empowers this Tucson art collective to embrace their identityAfter Mexican-American studies was banned at their school, these young people formed a collective to educate themselves and others.
Arts Mar 20
The epic, 40-year-old feminist art piece that we’re still learning from todayWith the popularity of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, this massive altar to feminism, which artist and feminist educator Judy Chicago completed in 1979, is gaining renewed attention for its triumphs -- but also its problems.
Poetry Mar 19
Parkland students pour their feelings into poetryA 14-year-old student who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wrote about life's "ups and downs" soon before his death. After the shooting, a classmate writes that "nothing about this feels normal."…
