It's been a month since news broke that three young Muslims were shot to death in Chapel Hill. For poet Will McInerney, it hit especially hard. He’s from Chapel Hill, knew the victims through friends, and like many, has been trying to sort it out.
This month Will McInerney and translator Mike Mallah are traveling across the Middle East and working with the Syrian American Medical Society and the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Their project, Stories with a Heartbeat, documents the work of medical NGO's through creative storytelling and photography.
He sent us this Poetic reflection on what it's like to be in the region and say: "I'm from Chapel Hill."
Will McInerney was a part of a team of poets and photographers who traveled to Egypt and Tunisia in 2011 for the Poetic Portraits of a Revolution project. They produced a series of "poetic reflections" in cooperation with WUNC.
