I've always felt that any little bit of other in our lives - even if its that we grew up on the edge of town and all our friends were on the inside o… - Naomi Shihab Nye

I feel very close to that part of each of us which remains young, idealistic, and curious. (2019)

I think people who work on translation projects think that they're somehow peace negotiators because the belief is that we'll never stop killing one another until we understand and see one another as human beings. I think that's true. That's why it is very important to me to receive responses to poems like that from Israeli or Jewish poets; they're even more important than responses from Arab poets. When I get responses from an Israeli Jewish poet saying "I'm listening, I'm sorry, I don't like this either," that matters to me a lot.

Some days were long sentences</br>flowing into one another.