Words against fear: A journalist and poet
Reading or writing a poem requires that we step out of ourselves—which can be dangerous. It's the same thing I do as a foreign correspondent.
Waiting for the volcano
Our high-speed hydrofoil is late. We wait in the island’s worst places,Aeolian churches. Bartholomew,the aging patron saint, drapes his flayed skin over one arm,...
Foot washing
The congregation of pilled sweaters gathers.
The least of them my brethren, their terrible feet unpeel
from comfortable shoes. They come to be healed by my father...
On the fault line: Christian-Muslim encounters in Nigeria
Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation, and nearly half of its people are
Christians. They are often in conflict,
sometimes violent conflict, with Muslims.