"Tear gas canisters scattered in the fields by Israeli soldiers say, "Made in Pennsylvania."...I keep thinking of thos…"

"Think of it: two peoples, so closely related it's hard to tell them apart in the streets sometimes, claiming the same…"

"I can't stop believing human beings everywhere hunger for deeper-than-headline news about one another. Poetry and art…"

"This is what I want a book of poems and paintings to be-a surprising spring waking us from our daily sleep. A feast o…"

"Discovering Something New Every Day was an Al-Amri family motto. Aref's father said people started playing this game …"

"As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headli…"

""Look at something ahead of you in the distance, then look at it when you get right up next to it, then turn around a…"

"The things that cause you friction are the things from which you might make art. Surely losing is one of the most end…"

"Right then he knew that moment was clearly written in his brain forever. (p170)"

"the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger cir…"