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

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

"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…"

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

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

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

"just today, some students I was talking to in a Skype class in Kuwait — how much I love the modern world, that we can…"

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

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