Showing posts with label Elana Bell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elana Bell. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Poetry for Isaac and Ishmael

What does poetry have to say to Isaac and Ishmael, Jew and Palestinian? More than one might expect. Certainly more than I expected.

Poet Elana Bell has taught poetry to educators, prisoners, and high school students. Some of those students are in New York City, where Bell is writer-in-residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters.

Others live in Israel.

And Palestine.

And it all comes together in Eyes, Stones: Poems.

To continue reading, please visit my post today at TweetSpeak Poetry.