Poetry Friday

Poetry humanizes us in a way that news, or even religion, has a harder time doing. A great Arab scholar, Dr. Salma Jayyusi, said, "If we read one another, we won't kill one another."
~ Naomi Shihab Nye ~
To start reading one another, pick up the anthology, The Space between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye (Simon & Schuster, 1998).