Women on both sides, who experience the killing and injury of their loved ones, find themselves suddenly transformed into heads of households, primary care takers and providers.

I watched her realize that, by putting the things that she knows to be true into the work she's doing, she can create poems that only Charlotte can write about eyeballs and elevators and Dora the Explorer.

The violence began in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri during a protest by Muslims against the cartoons, with the Christian Association of Nigeria reporting at least 50 Christians killed.