Naomi Shihab Nye

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Naomi Shihab Nye was the laureate of the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (see WLT, Jan. 2014) as well as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022. Her most recent book is The Turtle of Michigan (Greenwillow, 2022).

  • A photograph of light streaming through the branches of an ancient olive tree.

    Jerusalem: A Trilingual Poem

    October 13, 2023 Naomi Shihab Nye
    Photo by Yousef Khanfar / www.yousefkhanfar.com. This olive tree in the Al Aqsa compound is believed to be 2,000 years old.I’m not interested in who suffered the most. I’m interested in people getting…
  • 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…