Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

Naomi Shihab Nye was born on March 12 ... received her BA in English and world religions from Trinity University. Nye gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and ...

In “Naomi Shihab Nye’s Aesthetic of Smallness and the Military Sublime,” Samina Najmi argues that the few critics who write about Nye do not focus on her “overtly political” 9/11 poetry. Nye deals ...

The Texas Book Festival is honoring San Antonio poet Naomi Shihab Nye with its Texas Writer Award as part of this year's festivities. The honor, previously known as the Bookend Award, is presented ...