"I had a chance to be with so many people who are now not available to us in the flesh, only through their words. I felt them as a wellspring of the spirit of Palestine, and the love and the care for #Palestine."
Our former #Poetry Editor Naomi Shihab Nye on how her heritage shaped her art: https://www.texasobserver.org/palestinian-american-poet-naomi-shihab-nye-gaza-palestine?utm_campaign=mastodon via Francesca npub1px57sk4y4txmhzq3m7ecks75ww8w3rfedygt3h4uhvy8a328hhcsv8g8mn (npub1px5…g8mn)
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