Indexes and Specialty Pages: Naomi Shihab Nye Page

Naomi Shihab Nye was born on March 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. She has lived for periods of time in Ramallah, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas. She has received a B.A. in English and World Religions from Trinity University. and has since become a poet, essayist, author of children's books, and a songwriter. She has been a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Witter Bynner Foundation.

Readings:

Meet the Poet: Naomi Shihab Nye (Real Audio)(Real Video)(WGBH Boston);
Women Poets from the Middle East (MP3) (PEN American Center);

Interviews:

Author-Editor Dialogues: Naomi Shihab Nye and Virginia Duncan (CBC Magazine);
"Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye" by Rachel Barenblat (Pif);
Naomi Shihab Nye: A Bill Moyers Interview (Now, PBS);
W. S. Merwin Talks with Naomi Shihab Nye (Real Audio) (Lannan Foundation);

Essays:

Poems:

Arabic Coffee (Now, PBS);
Blood (Now, PBS);
Blood (PoetryFoundation.org);
Boy and Egg (Biscayne Bay Review);
Fundamentalism (PoetryFoundation.org);
Half-And-Half (Famous Poets and Poems);
Hidden (Famous Poets and Poems);
Keep Driving (Clackamas Literary Review, Spring / Summer 1997);
"Last August Hours Before the Year 2000", "Some Days", and "Two Countries" (Organica News);
My Father and the Fig Tree (Now, PBS);
My Friend's Divorce (Clackamas Literary Review, Spring / Summer 1997);
The Small Vases from Hebron (PoetryFoundation.org);
The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong (PoetryFoundation.org);
Why the Silence Still Hangs Over Eastern Oregon (Clackamas Literary Review, Spring / Summer 1997);