21. Interviews : One On One With Naomi Shihab Nye Poetry by naomi shihab nye One on One interviewed by Rachel Barenblat The author of FUEL talks about the nuts and bolts of publishing, the art of storytelling, and the importance of reading. Pif Magazine - bringing you the best writing on the http://www.pifmagazine.com/vol27/i_bare.shtml

Current Issue Editor's Desk Write for Pif Ad Info ... Writers Only Classifieds Search our Site Curious about the world of hypertext? The current issue of "Riding the Meridian" is an excellent site for discovering this genre's unique and emerging voices. Get our Newsletter Stay up-to-date with all of the latest Pif happenings. Mailed once a month. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Need More Info? Write for Pif Writing Contest Pif Newsletter Zine Promotion Zine Ad Co-Op [an error occurred while processing this directive] Last Word Our readers spout off. Now's your chance to find out what some people really think of us. Pif Magazine ISSN: 1094-2726 Published by: Pif, LLC PMB 248 4820 Yelm Hwy SE Suite B Lacey, WA 98503-4903 PAST INTERVIEWS MORE INTERVIEWS Naomi Shihab Nye has been one of my favorite poets for as long as I can remember. My first acquaintance with her came when I was a child, enrolled in a poetry class that she was teaching; she was exciting, invigorating, encouraging. My second acquaintance with her came through her poems, once I reached adulthood and started reading and writing poetry myself. If you read my review of FUEL Pif - January, 1999)

22. Letter From Naomi Shihab Nye To Any Would-Be Terrorists Religion professor's personal page presents a letter from ArabAmerican poet naomi shihab nye about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/shihabnye.html

Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion website of Dr. Alan Godlas of the University of Georgia. Letter from Naomi Shihab Nye, Arab-American Poet: To Any Would-Be Terrorists I am sorry I have to call you that, but I don't know how else to get your attention. I hate that word. Do you know how hard some of us have worked to get rid of that word, to deny its instant connection to the Middle East? And now look. Look what extra work we have. Not only did your colleagues kill thousands of innocent, international people in those buildings and scar their families forever, they wounded a huge community of people in the Middle East, in the United States and all over the world. If that's what they wanted to do, please know the mission was a terrible success, and you can stop now. Because I feel a little closer to you than many Americans could possibly feel, or ever want to feel, I insist that you listen to me. Sit down and listen. I know what kinds of foods you like. I would feed them to you if you were right here, because it is very very important that you listen. I am humble in my country's pain and I am furious. My Palestinian father became a refugee in 1948. He came to the United States as a college student. He is 74 years old now and still homesick. He has planted fig trees. He has invited all the Ethiopians in his neighborhood to fill their little paper sacks with his figs. He has written columns and stories saying the Arabs are not terrorists, he has worked all his life to defy that word. Arabs are businessmen and students and kind neighbors. There is no one like him and there are thousands like him - gentle Arab daddies who make everyone laugh around the dinner table, who have a hard time with headlines, who stand outside in the evenings with their hands in their pockets staring toward the far horizon.

23. NOW: Transcript - Naomi Shihab Nye -- A Bill Moyers Interview | PBS found deep comfort in poetry, especially the poems of naomi shihab nye. Her poems speak of ordinary things things we http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_nye.html

Naomi Shihab Nye Read poems by Naomi Shihab Nye BILL MOYERS: Eight years ago, recovering from heart surgery I found deep comfort in poetry, especially the poems of Naomi Shihab Nye. Her poems speak of ordinary things things we take for granted until it's almost too late. In her new book, 19 VARIETIES OF GAZELLE those are again her subject. Even when war, politics and terrorism put them in jeopardy. Naomi Shihab Nye, is an American, an Arab, a Poet, a parent, a woman of Texas, a woman of ideas. The daughter of a Palestinian father and an American mother, she's lived in old Jerusalem, in St. Louis, and now with her own family in San Antonio, Texas. We first met at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in New Jersey eight years ago where we talked about the power of the word. BILL MOYERS: Poetry is a form of conversation is it not? NAOMI SHIHAB NYE: Absolutely, conversation with the world, conversation with those words on the page allowing them to speak back to you conversation with yourself. BILL MOYERS: We caught up with Naomi Nye at the Poetry Festival again in New Jersey last month.

24. Voices From The Gaps: Naomi Shihab Nye Works about the Author nye, naomi shihab. Contemporary Women Poets. DetroitSt. nye, naomi shihab. Dictionary of Literary Biography 120. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/NYEnaomishihab.html

PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... By significant dates NAOMI SHIHAB NYE b.1952 PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) Anyone who feels poetry is an alien or ominous force should consider the style in which human beings think. 'How do you think?' I ask my students. 'Do you think in complete, elaborate sentences? In fully developed paragraphs with careful footnotes? Or in flashes and bursts of images, snatches of lines leaping one to the next, descriptive fragments, sensory details?' We think in poetry. But some people pretend poetry is far away. ALAN Review Web site Naomi Shihab Nye Photo credits Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Naomi Shihab Nye was born on March 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri to an American mother and a Palestinian father. At the age of seven, she published her first poem, and at age 14, her family moved to Jerusalem, where she attended a year of high school. Her family then moved to San Antonio, Texas, where she lives today with her husband and son. In her writing, she draws on the voices of the Mexican-Americans that live near her, as well as the perspectives of Arab-Americans like herself and the ideas and practices of the different local subcultures of America.

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Speaker Pull Down Menu Russell Banks Michael Chabon Billy Collins Bernard Cooper Michael Cunningham Anne Fadiman Ira Glass Terry Gross Robert Hass Seamus Heaney Jane Hirshfield Tony Kushner Anne Lamott Barry Lopez Armistead Maupin Frances Mayes W.S. Merwin Anchee Min Kathleen Norris Naomi Shihab Nye Michael Ondaatje Robert Pinsky Annie Proulx David Rakoff Adrienne Rich Luis Rodriguez Mark Salzman Robert Sapolsky Orville Schell Alice Sebold David Sedaris Maurice Sendak Art Spiegelman Amy Tan Sarah Vowell Photo by James Evans Links of Interest Two Poems from Fuel Short Bio of NSN NSN Interview Poems by NSN ... NSN with Moyers Naomi Shihab Nye Poet, Essayist, Author, Songwriter " In the current literary scene, one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life. "

29. Naomi Shihab Nye naomi shihab nye photo by James Evans. http://www.barclayagency.com/large/lnye.html

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30. Organica News -- By The Way BY THE WAY—Two Ruminations (Winter 2003) by naomi shihab nye Our awardwinningcolumnist ponders the troubles that bind us as a people, and ways to reclaim http://www.organicanews.com/news/article_archive.cfm?section=5

31. Organica News -- Poetry: Naomi Shihab Nye naomi shihab nye (From Summer 2000) Born of a Palestinian father and an Americanmother, naomi shihab nye is the author of six poetry collections, including http://www.organicanews.com/news/article.cfm?story_id=149

32. Naomi Shihab Nye Aubrey Organics Never In A Hurry naomi shihab nye Sewing, Knitting,Crocheting A small striped sleeve in her lap, navy and white http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/nye.html

Never In A Hurry Naomi Shihab Nye Sewing, Knitting, Crocheting... A small striped sleeve in her lap, navy and white, needles carefully whipping in yarn from two sides. She reminds me of the wide-angled women filled with calm I pretended I was related to in crowds. In the next seat a yellow burst of wool grows into a hat with a tassel. She looks young to crochet. I'm glad history isn't totally lost. Her silver hook dips gracefuly. And when's the last time you saw anyone sew a pocket onto a gray linen shirt in public? Her stitches must be invisible. A bevelled thimble glitters in the light. On Mother's Day three women who aren't together conduct delicate operations in adjoining seats between La Guardia and Dallas. Miraculously, they never speak. Three different kinds of needles, three snippy scissors, everybody else on the plane snoozing with The Times. When the flight attendant offers free wine to celebrate, you'd think they'd sit back, chat a minute, tell who they're making it for, trade patterns

33. Rough Peace, A Profile Of Naomi Shihab Nye, By Trisha Ready (10/04/01) BOOKS-. ROUGH PEACE A Profile of naomi shihab nye by Trisha Ready. Thereare small fires burning in New York beneath the ruined buildings. http://www.thestranger.com/2001-10-04/books.html

Vol 11 No. 3, Oct 4 - Oct 10 2001 Enter search words: -BOOKS- ROUGH PEACE A Profile of Naomi Shihab Nye by Trisha Ready There are small fires burning in New York beneath the ruined buildings. There is a map of known absences. A map of absences-to-come. A blank, unblinking sky. Each night is disturbed by planes, and we count our days by mornings. Someone's a hero. Someone else is Hitler. The newscasters talk, and our chart of desert friends and foes is made, erased, and remade. As we try to make sense of what happened on September 11, we butt up against an uncomfortable edge and end up circling a militant narcissism. Our American English serves us best when it's hard at regular business, but ruptures when we're faced with ambiguous feelings or immense grief, sadness, and anger. National compassion stops abruptly at some foreign borders. On September 12, the organizers of Hugo House's symposium on maps handed me excerpts from a book called The Space Between Our Footsteps The Space Between Our Footsteps offered olive trees, and cardamom, and rainimages to contradict the flat portraits being repeated on TV.

34. Crossing Borders With Naomi Shihab Nye naomi shihab nye is the First Citizen of the World of Poetry! Crossing Borderswith naomi shihab nye. Poems need no passports. More of this Feature. http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa100201a.htm

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35. National Poetry Month, HarperChildrens 19 Varieties of Gazelle Poems of the Middle East by naomi shihab nye StepsA man letters the sign for his grocery in Arabic and English. http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/fiction/features/poetry/nye.asp

Title Author ISBN Imprint Series Format Ralph Fletcher Douglas Florian Nikki Grimes Lee Bennett Hopkins ... Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye Steps A man letters the sign for his grocery in Arabic and English. Paint dries more quickly in English. The thick swoops and curls of Arabic letters stay moist and glistening till tomorrow when the children show up jingling their dimes. They have learned the currency of the New World, carrying wishes for gum and candies shaped like fish. They float through the streets, diving deep to the bottom, nosing rich layers of crusted shell. One of these children will tell a story that keeps her people alive. We don't know yet which one she is. Girl in the red sweater dangling a book bag, sister with eyes pinned to the barrel of pumpkin seeds. They are lettering the sidewalk with their steps. They are separate and together and a little bit late. Carrying a creased note, "Don't forget." Who wrote it? They've already forgotten. A purple fish sticks to the back of the throat. Their long laughs are boats they will ride and ride

36. Naomi Shihab Nye Read More For the last twentyfive years, naomi shihab nye has workedas a writer with all different kinds of students. Her latest http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/author/features/nye.asp

Title Author ISBN Imprint Series Format Read More: For the last twenty-five years, Naomi Shihab Nye has worked as a writer with all different kinds of students. Her latest anthology, Salting the Ocean , is made up of one hundred poems by one hundred of the young people that she taught. They write with fire. Could You...? In another anthology, What Have You Lost?

37. The Wreath That Eats Two Ice Cubes Naomi Shihab Nye The Wreath that Eats Two Ice Cubes naomi shihab nye A live green wreathfeaturing tiny red berries sits in a damp pie plate on our table. http://www.canwehaveourballback.com/nye.htm

The Wreath that Eats Two Ice Cubes Naomi Shihab Nye A live green wreath featuring tiny red berries sits in a damp pie plate on our table. Each day I lift the white candle from the center and feed it 2 ice cubes following instructions from the box. I mist the delicate leaves. An hour later when the cubes have melted, I place the candle back. The wreath will stay alive all winter with this diet. The wreath waits to make people feel festive, to have us gather round it with plates and glasses and shining spoons. The wreath doesn’t want us to watch the news.

38. Skagit River Poetry Festival Biennial poetry festival in La Conner Washington. The May 2000 festival featured Coleman Barks, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jane Hirshfield, Kurtis Lamkin, David Lee, Thomas Lux, Heather Mc Hugh, and naomi shihab nye. http://www.skagitriverpoetry.org

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39. Anhinga Press: Mint Snowball, By Naomi Shihab Nye Mint Snowball by naomi shihab nye. Some of to grow. naomi shihab nye(from the back cover) Cover Lawn, by Paula Owen, 1998. Mint. http://www.anhinga.org/mintsnowball.html

HOME POETS BOOKS ANHINGA PRIZE ... Readings! Mint Snowball by Naomi Shihab Nye Some of you may have encountered a wee chapbook of paragraphs from State Street Press called MINT that was first printed in 1991. If you were one of the people who liked that collection, or especially one of the generous teachers who used it in your classes, I thank you. This gathering contains some (not all) of those same pieces as well as more recent ones. That collection contained the following Author's Note: "I think of these pieces as being simple paragraphs rather than prose poems, though a few might sneak into the prose poem category, were they traveling on their own. The paragraph, standing by itself, has a lovely pocket-sized quality. It garnishes the page, as mint garnishes a plate. Many people say (foolishly, of course), they don't like poetry, but I've never heard anyone say that they don't like paragraphs. It would be like disliking five-minute increments on the clock." Well, I stand by that. I still think of these little things we write as being paragraphs, in all their honorable, minor dignity, and I still believe the paragraph form has something larger to give us, if we let it. And, I am still having trouble, in my drought-stricken Texas earth, growing the lavish, meandering mint bed I would like to grow.

40. NAOMI SHIHAB NYE THE ORANGE, THE FIG, THE WHISPER OF GRAPES. naomi shihab nye. Dear Daddy,. naomishihab nye was born in St. Louis in 1952 and lives in San Antonio. http://www.webdelsol.com/Post_Road/HTMLPages/PostRoad/Issue_2/Etcetera2/Letters_

THE ORANGE, THE FIG, THE WHISPER OF GRAPES NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Dear Daddy, so what, who cares, are you kidding? Talking to your fig tree, handing bags of ripe fruit to any Ethiopian lady who hikes down your street. Take two, take more . Saying I love you 20 times during the same phone call. I have grown-up friends whose fathers never said that yet. Whose fathers are dead with no more chance of saying it. Your love was a solid mountain, not a hope or a guess. You said, The house is happy when you're in it. First one to say I love you in September! Hi darling. Did you know I'm proud of you? because you were trying to figure out what to do yourself. Let's have an orange party. Humid St. Louis evenings, savory fragrance of overturned earth in our lungs, sunstruck weeds and mown grass, you'd peel the orange skin around and around so it came off in a single springy coil, placing cool sections into our mouths. We closed our eyes for the sweetness. Somehow you and Mommy brought us up to taste a sweetness everywhere. Not to be scared. You'd say

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