Crossing the Rift

<p>No matter how you were touched by the events of September 11 2001 that moment continues to resonate. <em>Crossing the Rift: North Carolina Poets on 9/11 & Its Aftermath</em> illuminates not only what happened that day but what continues to challenge us twenty years later: Islamophobia the vilification of refugees and asylum-seekers nationalism supercharged military budgets and rises in virulent racism and domestic terrorism. Edited by former North Carolina poet laureate Joseph Bathanti and 9/11 family member and former literature and theater director for the North Carolina Arts Council David Potorti <em>Crossing the Rift </em>takes head-on what Carolyn Forche calls the poetry of witness and its advocacy for a shared sense of humanity and collective resistance.</p>