Naomi Shihab Nye

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Naomi Shihab Nye is the Young People’s Poet Laureate through the Poetry Foundation (Chicago). Her most recent book is Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (Greenwillow, 2020). Aziz Shihab’s last book was Does the Land Remember Me? A Memoir of Palestine (Syracuse University Press, 2007).

  • An illustration of a man carrying a heavy burden on his back with the city of Al Aqsa superimposed on the bag he's carrying

    There Will Be Peace in the Holy Land

    Summer 2021
    Naomi Shihab Nye
    Sliman Mansour / Courtesy of the artist In memory, Aziz Shihab 1927–2007 In the late 1950s, in the middle of the United States (we lived in Ferguson, a quiet, leafy community barely known e…
  • The cover to The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye

    The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye

    Naomi Shihab Nye
    Rochester, New York. BOA Editions. 2019. 128 pages. Whether a product of the twenty-four-hour news cycle or an ancient survival mechanism, it is exceedingly easy for us to cordon ourselves off from th…
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    Right Now

    August 4, 2014 Naomi Shihab Nye
    Photo by M./Flickr   Today on the phone,first time in thirty years,my friend didn’t know me.Who? Where do you live?Where did we meet?She’s been slipping for a while.I wonder if that’s how God feelsab…

  • Business

    January 2014
    Naomi Shihab Nye
    Photo by Pieter Stockmans “Syrian refugees go about their business in a refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan . . .”  Ropes on poles, jeans & shirts fla…

  • Arabs in Finland

    January 2014
    Naomi Shihab Nye
    Photo by Kables/Flickr Their language rolls out, soft carpet in front of them.Strolling slowly beneath trees, men in white shirts, belts, baggy trousers,women in scarves,glinting cigarettes in the d…