News at Eleven: "One can get a different idea of Palestinians

as people through the history of their poets," [Adina] Hoffman told GlobalPost. "Poetry and poets occupy such an essential role in Palestinian society: Throughout much of the last century, poetry has served as one of the most important means of political and social expression for the Palestinian people--and the poets who've given voice to that impulse are central to the culture."

Their poetry forms a gap in our knowledge of the Palestinians because of the way reporters cover their story--focusing on the violence and pyrotechnics and screaming, rather than on what people actually feel beneath it all.

from GlobalPost: When poets do the talking

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