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Jul 5, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Naomi Shihab Nye
Former Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye delivers her latest collection, subtitled "Poems About Families." They're mostly focused on her relationship with her mother. Nye has a comfortable, unaffected delivery. Her voice has an unstudied tone, but, make no mistake, every syllable lands with precise intent. The poems are short and, at times, breathtakingly revealing, touching on acts of love and occasionally betrayal, on mysteries a child can never truly plumb.
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May 15, 2024 | 
poets.org | Naomi Shihab Nye
Skip to main contentFind and share the perfect poems. For Palestinian poet Reefat Alareer, with lines from his poemsWe live. We live. We do.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
rethinkingschools.org | Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She is the author of numerous books of poetry. This poem is included in Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems. Used by permission of HarperCollins. Artist Khaled Hourani’s art can be seen at instagram.com/khaledhourani6.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Francesca D'Annunzio |Naomi Shihab Nye
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and Twitter. Naomi Shihab Nye is the Texas Observer’s poetry editor emeritus. She is Palestinian-American and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and San Antonio. She frequently visited family in Palestine throughout her lifetime, including as a child.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
texasobserver.org | Francesca D’Annunzio |Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye is the Texas Observer’s poetry editor emeritus. She is Palestinian-American and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and San Antonio. She frequently visited family in Palestine throughout her lifetime, including as a child. Amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza, the Observer asked her about how growing up Palestinian influenced her writing. What attracted you to poetry? That was a lifetime, instinctive connection. I loved the ways poetry worked on the page and in our brains.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
inkl.com | Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye is the Texas Observer’s poetry editor emeritus. She is Palestinian-American and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and San Antonio. She frequently visited family in Palestine throughout her lifetime, including as a child. Amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza, the Observer asked her about how growing up Palestinian influenced her writing. What attracted you to poetry? That was a lifetime, instinctive connection. I loved the ways poetry worked on the page and in our brains.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
aroundwellington.com | Naomi Shihab Nye
BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYELetters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper,sizzle like moth wings,marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little is a stone. Where there was something and suddenly isn’t, an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space. I begin again with the smallest numbers.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
zocalopublicsquare.org | Naomi Shihab Nye
by Naomi Shihab Nye | https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/In-Morning-by-Naomi-Shihab-Nye_final.mp3The Palestinian childdoes not think about being Palestinian,but only of how his kittenslept last nightand why is it notin its basket.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Naomi Shihab Nye
From Ghassan Kanafani's "Men in the Sun" to Adania Shibli's "Minor Detail" In the last 38 days, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Another 190 have been killed by Israeli army fire and settler violence in the West Bank. Tens of thousands of people have been severely wounded and traumatized. 1.7 million have been displaced. Throughout these weeks of mass death and dehumanization—to say nothing of the 75 years preceding—an incalculable number of...
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
portside.org | Naomi Shihab Nye
Before I Was a Gazan Published October 27, 2023 Before I Was a Gazan By Naomi Shihab Nye I was a boy and my homework was missing, paper with numbers on it, stacked and lined, I was looking for my piece of paper, proud of this plus that, then multiplied, not remembering if I had left it on the table after showing to my uncle or the shelf after combing my hair but it was still somewhere and I was going to find it and turn it in, make my teacher happy, make her say my name to the whole class,...
