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Naomi Shihab Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Jordan, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she later received her B.A. in English and world religions from Trinity University. She is a novelist, poet and songwriter. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2010.
Poems of the Middle East
1994
Poems for Girls
2005
2003
1995
Poems for Our Time
2020
2020
2000
2022
Poems
1980
Collected and New Poems
2020
2015
1998
2005
Poems about Families
2024
1997
Poems & Short Prose
2008
1982
A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs
1996
Tales of Driving and Being Driven
2007
Poems & Paintings from Texas
2004
1997
2001
2023
Essays on People and Places
1996
Mujeres poetas
2015
2023
1994
100 Poems by Young Poets
2000
1994
Selected Poems
2015
Poems and Paintings from the Middle East
1998
2019
A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico With Paintings by Mexican Artists
1995
2022
2014
2011
A Collection of Poems from Around the World
1992
25 Poets under 25
2010
Work from 1970 to the Present
2007
2011
1992
2010
Poems for Listeners
2018
A Book for Darfur
2011
Selected Poems
1994
2005
2015
