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Overview“Naomi Shihab Nye breathes poetry like the rest of us breathe air. When she exhales, the world becomes different. Better.” —The Grand Rapids Press Naomi Shihab Nye’swork provides a spotlight on the everyday and reawakens the beauty in the ordinary. She is the author and/or editor of more than 25 volumes. Her books of poetry include A Maze Me: Poems for Girls; Red Suitcase; Words Under the Words; You & Yours, a best-selling poetry book of 2006; and 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, a finalist for the National Book Award. Other works include seven prize-winning poetry anthologies for young readers, including This Same Sky, The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings from the Middle East, and What Have You Lost? Honeybee, her collection of poems for young adults, won the 2008 Arab American Book Award in the Children’s/Young Adult category. Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. In January 2010 she was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. This reading is inspired in part by the Folger’s exhibition Beyond Home Remedy: Women, Medicine, and Science, on view January 21 – May 14, 2011. Conversation moderated by Sarah Browning. Listen to audio of Shihab Nye reading her poem, “Streets.” from…Lunch in Nablus City Park When you lunch in a town From 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye © 1994,1995,1998, 2002 by Naomi Shihab Nye, published by Greenwillow Press. Used with permission of the author. |
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Poet Laureate of Carrboro, NC 2019 -2022 / 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow
