The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora, edited by Lisa Marchi, contains the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary women poets who live in the Arab diaspora. Poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Iman Mersal, Mina Boulhanna, Nadine Ltaif, Maram al-Massri, and Suheir Hammad walk on a rope that is stretched taut above the globe to connect languages, culture, and faiths in a time marked by physical distancing, divisions, and tensions of all sorts. A.M. Qattan Foundation.