At the memorial service, Jessica Clank(ph) and Leah Coin(ph) recited a poem about their friend.

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Mr Ajami, also known as Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb, had previously recited a poem that criticised Qatar's emir and was posted online in August 2010.

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Keldysh recited a poem in Russian, Mstislav made a joke about Gogol, then we sealed up this weird stew with cheesecloth mesh, as we do the rest of the topsoil, to keep it from absconding in the zero-G.

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The title comes from a poem by the feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad, recited during a mysterious scene in which a girl milks a cow in a dark cellar, her face hidden.

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In the company of seven other people, Mr Ajami recited his latest poem, a paean to the Tunisian Revolution.

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The nature and consequence of our resistance is captured in a poem written before the Great War by Sam Walker Foss and recited in the Nebraska statewide oratory contest by the late Ted Sorensen's father.

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