Gaza Writes Back – Book Review

Reviewed by Gary Corseri (Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine. Edited by Refaat Alareer. Just World Books, Charlottesville, VA, 2014. 205 pages.) I think I was in the first grade […]

When Kathy Kelly Went to Jail

By Gary Corseri [Kathy Kelly is the co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She has traveled to Iraq and Gaza during wartime–to bear witness and give comfort. The author of “Other Lands Have Dreams,” she […]

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Guantanamo

By Gary Corseri Scratching their poems on styrofoam cups, The orange jumpsuits pass them along, Under the scorched-out Cuban sun, through bars, Telling themselves—and reminding the world— They are men, and this Inquisition Also must […]