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Review of Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems
Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye; illus. by Rafael López Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 256 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-301345-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-301347-6 $9.99 A substantial volume of poems by Nye, the Palestinian American poet and current Young People’s Poet Laureate, is a pleasure on...
Rule Breakers: Walk Away
I started ninth grade as one of five girls admitted to the Friends Boys School in Ramallah. We all needed a school that taught in English, but from the first week, the girls were often in trouble for minor infractions. A school mistress kept her sharp eye on us. We...
What Is Naomi Shihab Nye Wearing?
Probably twenty years ago, Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye, pictured here "wearing pants I normally only wear in Hawai'i because when will I ever be there again?" gave me an object lesson in storytelling. We were having lunch at an outdoor cafe in San Antonio, and because I...
Review of Cast Away: Poems for Our Time
Cast Away: Poems for Our Time by Naomi Shihab Nye Middle School, High School Greenwillow 159 pp. 2/20 978-0-06-290769-1 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-290771-4 $10.99 Current Young People’s Poet Laureate Nye finds inspiration in those things we throw away — as well as in the act of throwing things away and...
The Book That Changed My Life: At Home in the Pages
My mother, now ninety — the first person who ever read poems to me — must have given me this book, but she does not remember the occasion. By the time I was seven (1959), my copy was hand-worn and familiar. I toted it proudly. At 608 pages, containing more...
Review of Voices in the Air
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listenersby Naomi Shihab NyeMiddle School Greenwillow 208 pp. g2/18 978-0-06-269184-2 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-269186-6 $9.99Many of Nye’s ninety-four original poems speak to historical and contemporary figures, from storied poets such as Yehuda Amichai, Lucille Clifton, José Emilio Pacheco, and Walt Whitman to a trusted Honolulu...
On Naomi Shihab Nye's "Delicious rhythms" (from March 1997)
Happy New Year! The first morning back to school after winter break was a hard one in our house. No one, including the grownups, wanted to get out of bed, accustomed as we've all been to staying up late and sleeping in. Day two (today) was worse. I don't like...
Naomi Shihab Nye Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byBorn of Naomi Shihab Nye's childhood fascination with Oman and a visit there five years ago, The Turtle of Oman is that rare thing in current children's...
Spiral Staircase
No one will ever approach you and say, “This looks like a good day to curl up and read poetry.” You have to do that for yourself. One great thing is — you can sneak it in, between all the other things you are doing. The poet William Stafford carried...
Snapshots: "Delicious rhythms"
Recently when our ten-year-old son was asked to name his favorite book, he said promptly, "I have thousands of favorites," and proceeded to describe his room as if he were living in a small crack between bookshelves — the pleasant problem of the voracious reader. Madison's bookshelves span a decade...