Shared World, Shared Words

The inspiring Arab-American poet, Naomi Shihab Nye, wrapped a poem around an unexpected experience of both distress and kindness that she encountered at an airport in Albuquerque. She sent it off to exactly two friends, who passed it on to friends, who passed it on to friends. At a recent reading of the poem, Nye ended the evening remarking that this spontaneous series of people passing the poem on had probably resulted in more people reading it than it would have, had it appeared in a print magazine.

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