Naomi Shihab Nye

Eight-year-old Aref is excited to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will start a new school, and while Aref misses his grandfather, his Sidi, he knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting for him.

A collection of poems about family and the love we share with one another throughout life's peaks and valleys.

A young girl describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian village on the West Bank. When Mona, a young Arab-American girl, journeys with her father to the Middle East to meet her grandmother, she discovers that they share the universal bonds of family love

When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.

Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved and widely read poets in America. Her speaking engagements are booked by the Steven Barclay Agency, and she appears at schools, festivals, and conferences in excess of 100 times per year. In January 2010 Naomi Shihab Nye was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Along with this honor, Nye has received a Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Witter Bynner Fellowship...

Nye's last BOA collections, Red Suitcase, and, Fuel, have each sold over 12,000 copies. They are best-selling back titles. Red Suitcase is in its 5th printing. Fuel is in its 4th printing. This is her first collection since Fuel in 1998, so her many fans will be eager to read her new poems.

A collection of poetry and full-color artwork from Middle Eastern and North African countries.

Yes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.
The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney,

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