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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.
Selected Poems
1994
Poems and Paintings from the Middle East
1998
Poems of the Middle East
1994
2000
Poems & Paintings from Texas
2004
2020
Work from 1970 to the Present
2007
Selected Poems
2015
2015
1995
2001
Collected and New Poems
2020
2015
2014
25 Poets under 25
2010
Poems for Girls
2005
2005
Poems & Short Prose
2008
Tales of Driving and Being Driven
2007
A Book for Darfur
2011
2022
Poems for Listeners
2018
2010
1994
1998
2005
2011
100 Poems by Young Poets
2000
Poems about Families
2024
1982
2023
2019
A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico With Paintings by Mexican Artists
1995
Poems for Our Time
2020
1997
A Collection of Poems from Around the World
1992
A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs
1996
2003
Poems
1980
1992
1997
1994
2011
Essays on People and Places
1996
2022
