Naomi Shihab Nye

Poet

Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States on March 12th, 1952 and is the Poet. At the age of 72, Naomi Shihab Nye biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
March 12, 1952
Nationality
United States, State of Palestine
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Age
72 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Profession
Poet, Writer
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Trinity University
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Michael Nye
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Naomi Shihab Nye Life

Naomi Shihab Nye (born March 12, 1952) is a poet, songwriter, and novelist.

She was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother.

She began composing her first poem at the age of six and has published or contributed to over 30 volumes.

Her works include poetry, young-adult fiction, picture books, and novels.

Although she calls herself a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home.

She says a visit to her grandmother in the West Bank village of Sinjil was a life-changing experience.

Nye received the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in honor of her entire body of work as a writer.

Early life

Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and songwriter born in 1952 to a Palestinian father, who worked as a journalist, editor and writer, and American mother, who worked as a Montessori school teacher. Her father grew up in Palestine. He and his family became refugees in 1948, when the state of Israel was created. She has said her father "seemed a little shell-shocked when I was a child." She grew up initially in Ferguson, St. Louis County, Missouri. In 1966, when Nye was 14, the family moved to the West Bank, Palestine when her father's mother was sick. After less than a year, before the 1967 Six-Day War occurred, they moved to San Antonio, Texas.

Nye graduated from Robert E. Lee High School, where she was editor of the literary magazine. She earned a BA in English and world religions from Trinity University in 1974 and has lived in San Antonio ever since.

Personal life

Although she calls herself a "wandering poet", Shihab Nye refers to San Antonio as her home and lives there with her family. She says a visit to her grandmother in the West Bank village of Sinjil was a life-changing experience. In 1978, she married Michael Nye, who worked initially as an attorney and latterly on photography and on writing on topics including hunger, teenage pregnancy and mental illness. They have one son.

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Naomi Shihab Nye Career

Career

Nye spent time at the Texas Commission on the Arts as a writer-in-schools after graduation. She has continued to teach writing workshops, mainly to children. She currently teaches creative writing at Texas State University.

Nye's self-descriptions herself as a "wandering poet" and claims that a large part of her poetry is inspired by her childhood memories and her travels. San Antonio is considered by the woman who has lived here the longest as "San Antonio feels most like home." But there will be home the moment you unpack, and make a small space that seems agreeable." Many of her poems are influenced by San Antonio. Both roots and a sense of place are key themes in her body of work. Her poems are candid and accessible, with some of them using ordinary images in novel ways. Elizabeth Bishop's ability to enter foreign experiences and chronicle them from the inside, while her simple and concise "voice" is akin to that of her mentor William Stafford.

Different Ways to Pray, her first collection of poems, delves into the topic of similarities and differences between cultures, which would be one of her lifelong interests. Her other books include poetry collections 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Red Suitcase, and Fuel; a series of essays titled Never in a Hurry; an Arab-American teenager who moves to Jerusalem in the 1970s; and picture book Lullaby Raft; also the title of one of her two albums of music. (Both Rutabaga-Roo is the other; both were limited-edition).

Tattooed Feet (1977) and Eye-to-Eye (1978) are two of Nye's first two chapter books, with themes of questing. Diverse Ways to Pray (1980), Nye's first full-length collection, explores the differences in and shared experiences of cultures from California to Texas, and from South America to Mexico. Hugging the Jukebox (1982), a full-length collection that received the Voertman Poetry Prize, focuses on intercultural encounters and perspectives from those in other countries. Yellow Glove (1986) has poems with more tragic and sad themes. Fuel (1998), according to the Poetry Foundation, may be Nye's most acclaimed volume and ranges on a variety of topics, scenes, and settings.

In his concurring opinion on the matter G. G. vs. Gloucester County School Board, Nye's poem Famous was referenced and quoted in full by Judge Andre Davis.

In Parabola's 'Happiness' edition, she had so much joy.

Nye has edited many anthologies of poetry for both young and old audiences. This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World is one of the best-known collections of poems, and it includes translated work by 129 poets from 68 countries. Is This Forever, Or What? Poems & Paintings from Texas.

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