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Habibi Web Page Project by: Anisah Ansari, Katie Profili, Sabra McIntosh, Ellen Campion Book Talk Liyanna Abboud's emergence into womanhood is complicated by the fact that she walks a line between two completely different cultures. Her entire life has been lived in the United States and she has grown up thinking with a Western mind. But life takes a drastic turn for Liyanna when her father announces that the entire family is moving back to his native country of Palestine. For Liyanna, the announcement and the final destination seem like the end of everything that is important to her. She is being asked to leave the stability of the United States and move to war-torn Palestine where soldiers with guns patrolling the streets is a common sight. In addition, she is being asked to leave behind the boy who has given her her first taste of passion, the boy she has vowed she will always love. Liyanna knows very little about her Palestinian heritage almost none of its language. She journeys to her father’s homeland a stranger and must learn to become a member of her own family. Life in Palestine seems very bleak until she meets Omer. In Omer she finds a friend in a land full of strangers and a second chance to experience love. When it looks like Liyanna might have another chance at happiness as well, she finds out that Omer is Jewish and in her father’s homeland, their friendship is a forbidden thing. Now Liyanna must find a way to hold on to her happiness as well as her family.

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Quick Links Home Title by Series Title by Author A. Poulin Prize Lannan Series Continuum Series Reader Series Pamphlet Series Season Sampler Submissions Resources Permissions About BOA BOA History Partners Donors Contact Links Site Credits Site Map Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye has travelled widely through the U.S., the Middle East, and Asia and has worked as writer-in-residence at elementary, secondary, and university schools. Her poems and stories have appeared in numerous textbooks and anthologies, and her first two books won the Voertman Poetry Prize. Additionally, Nye has received three Pushcart prizes, the Charity Randall Prize for Spoken Poetry from the International Poetry Forum. Books by Naomi Shihab Nye: Red Suitcase Fuel Find out where you can buy our books [ Here Home Site Map Site Credits ... Contact

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Vol 11 No. 3, Oct 4 - Oct 10 2001 Enter search words: -BOOKS- ROUGH PEACE A Profile of Naomi Shihab Nye by Trisha Ready There are small fires burning in New York beneath the ruined buildings. There is a map of known absences. A map of absences-to-come. A blank, unblinking sky. Each night is disturbed by planes, and we count our days by mornings. Someone's a hero. Someone else is Hitler. The newscasters talk, and our chart of desert friends and foes is made, erased, and remade. As we try to make sense of what happened on September 11, we butt up against an uncomfortable edge and end up circling a militant narcissism. Our American English serves us best when it's hard at regular business, but ruptures when we're faced with ambiguous feelings or immense grief, sadness, and anger. National compassion stops abruptly at some foreign borders. On September 12, the organizers of Hugo House's symposium on maps handed me excerpts from a book called The Space Between Our Footsteps The Space Between Our Footsteps offered olive trees, and cardamom, and rainimages to contradict the flat portraits being repeated on TV.

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Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Naomi Shihab Nye Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet Poetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and syntactical content. It consists largely of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its user and audience to differ from ordinary prose. It may use condensed or compressed form to convey emotion or ideas to the reader's or listener's mind or ear; it may also use devices such as assonance and repetition to achieve musical or incantatory effects. Poems frequently rely for their effect on imagery, word association, and the musical qualities of the language used. Click the link for more information. and songwriter The sounds people accept as music vary according to historical era, location, and cultural and individual taste. The actual definition of music is hotly contested; one definition of music may include only those sounds which are considered "pleasant" by the definer, while another may include any sound produced intentionally by an individual or a group. Other definitions may focus on defining music as a physical phenomenon (in terms of sound), as a psychological phenomenon, or as a social phenomenon. Some people have even disputed that there is any such thing as music at all! Thus music must contain physical, psychological, and social phenomena, including theory, performance practice, dance, and poetry.

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Written by Pat Twair reprinted from Aramco World, Jan/Feb 1998 April will be a big month for Naomi Shihab Nye. Her anthology of contemporary Middle Eastern poetry and art, The Space Between Our Footsteps, will be published by Simon and Schuster; a book of her own poems, Fuel, will be released by BOA Editions, Ltd. and The Way It Is, a book of poems by her friend and mentor, the late William Stafford, for which she wrote the introduction, is also slated for publication. The Space Between Our Footsteps, Nye explains, is the first such anthology accessible to teenage readers. "I checked in high-school libraries throughout the country, and with the exception of my own anthology of international poets, This Same Sky, there was no book containing the works of Middle Eastern poets," she says. The 40 color paintings and other art in the book were selected from thousands of submissions by Arab-American and Middle Eastern artists. "My editor called me in San Antonio and told me to come to New York and start making selections," she recalls. "It was amazing when I entered a conference room and found stacks of boxes. It was difficult to choose from such out standing original work." Alert and energetic, Nye makes it clear she prefers simple food, natural wood, hand-woven fabric and lived-in dwellings. She and her husband, Michael, live with their 10-year-old son, Madison White Cloud, in a small 1906 frame house in a Mexican- American neighborhood near the Guadalupe River in San Antonio, Texas. Nye's father, Aziz Shihab, worked for years as a writer at the

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Literary San Antonio Naomi Shihab Nye IMAGE CREDIT: Stephen Barclay Agency (Photo by James Evans) Naomi Nye's house, located on South Main, near the King William Historical District. San Antonio's most celebrated poetess, Naomi Shihab Nye, lives in a house on S. Main Street, which borders the western edge of the King William Neighborhood. She was selected by Texas Monthly Magazine as one of the "20 most impressive, intriguing and influential Texans" for 1998. Recently, her poetry has attracted the attention of Bill Moyers, whose PBS segment on living American poets featured Nye reading some of her poems. In 2002 Moyers interviewed her on his PBS program NOW and had her read his favorite poem of hers, "The Art of Disappearing." Nye was also interviewed at length by Rachel Barenblatt for PifMagazine . Helpful discussions of Naomi Nye's biography and work (including additional links) are available at The American Academy of Poets , and at Voices from the Gaps The new edition of The Bedford Anthology of World Literature (2003) has included three of Nye's poems, with the introductory comment that, "In her writing she draws on the voices of the Mexican Americans who live near her as well as on the perspectives of Arab Americans like herself and the ideas and practices of the different subcultures in America" (Book 6, 1386). The three specific poems selected by the

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Poet/Essayist Naomi Shihab Nye Many Voices by Phil West San Antonio's King William neighborhood is an idyllic, comfortable pocket at the foot of the city's downtown. The San Antonio River winds lazily through the middle of it, its multi-racial inhabitants live in old, cared-for houses with lush yards and incredible character. At first glance, it seems too cozy to sustain any kind of frenzy. Naomi Shihab Nye, perhaps the most famous resident of the neighborhood, also seems too calm to generate a whirlwind of activity. If there was a movie of her life, Central Casting would almost demand, at the very least, a few hairs out of place, a powerful gravitation toward caffeine or nicotine, maybe a tendency to talk fast, a stammer, or an inability to sit still. At least, at the very least, there'd be some clutter in her house. After all, she's worn a number of hats through the years as a poet, a visiting writer at schools, a singer-songwriter, and an essayist. Lately, she's been collecting more hats as a children's writer and novelist. Yet she radiates a cool calm and easy friendliness it's the first thing you notice about her that belies her busy schedule. It's clear that she has worked this writing pace, and bounce from genre to genre, into a grounding, centering rhythm for herself it's actually made it easier for her to generate more work. "I see linkages between my many different voices," Nye explains. "Seeing something in prose helps you to see it in poems as well. Writing prose triggers the writing of poems on the side, that are marginally related, that I might have not seen without writing about them in prose first. It's opening those extra windows into psyches and memories, and it's really helped my productivity." She adds, with a smile, "The energy of writing and gathering and editing just gives you more energy to want to write, I think. You don't feel like `Thank God that's over' so you can rest for a while; 9,000 other things come up that you want to be working on."

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Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye You can't order a poem like you order a taco. Walk up to the counter, say, "I'll take two" and expect it to be handed back to you on a shiny plate. Still, I like your spirit. Anyone who says, "Here's my address, write me a poem," deserves something in reply. So I'll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them. Once I knew a man who gave his wife two skunks for a valentine. He couldn't understand why she was crying. "I thought they had such beautiful eyes." And he was serious. He was a serious man who lived in a serious way. Nothing was ugly just because the world said so. He really liked those skunks. So, he re-invented them as valentines and they became beautiful. At least, to him. And the poems that had been hiding in the eyes of skunks for centuries crawled out and curled up at his feet.

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[1379] Rain Title : Rain Poet : Naomi Shihab Nye Date : 4 Nov 2003 A teacher asked Paul Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq nelson.santhosh@ Rain A teacher asked Paul what he would remember from third grade, and he sat a long time before writing "this year somebody tutched me on the sholder" and turned his paper in. Later she showed it to me as an example of her wasted life. The words he wrote were large as houses in a landscape. He wanted to go inside them and live, he could fill in the windows of "o" and "d" and be safe while outside birds building nests in drainpipes knew nothing of the coming rain. Naomi Shihab Nye http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/NYEnaomishihab.html Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree [this poem is archived, accessible and awaiting your comments at] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1379.html minstrels-subscribe@

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Subscriber Login ABOUT UTNE About Us Partners Advertise Where To Buy Utne ... Magazine Account Naomi Shihab Nye Traveling is in my genes, says writer Naomi Shihab Nye. The daughter of a Palestinian father and an American mother, she traveled widely as a child. Born in St. Louis, she lived for a time in Jerusalem, then settled in San Antonio, Texas, where she lives in the old inner city. An "itinerant writer" for the past 26 years and author of books such as Never in a Hurry, Habibi, and Come with Me: Poems for a Journey, Nye travels constantly to read her poetry and prose. Nye Please Enable JavaScript Please Enable JavaScript Home Subscribe Advertise Contact Us ... Utne Links

79. Kindness By Naomi Shihab Nye Kindness By naomi shihab nye, a Palestinian poet. Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve http://www.snowcrest.net/ksnow/kindness.htm

Kindness By Naomi Shihab Nye, a Palestinian poet Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness, you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore

80. BCCB-True Blue: Naomi Shihab Nye See the archive for focus pieces from previous months. naomi shihab nye. A Selected Bibliography of Works by naomi shihab nye Come With Me Poems for a Journey. http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/0902focus.html

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books: True Blue Each month we offer a focus on a particular author or artist. Sometimes we use this space to discuss a rising new talent or an established star, but we also like to celebrate those who now live on only in the rich legacy of their books. See the archive for focus pieces from previous months. Naomi Shihab Nye I had the pleasure of seeing Naomi Shihab Nye when she addressed the Champaign Children's Literature Festival as the keynote speaker in fall of 2001. Her presence was calm and clear, like a still pool of water, and her manner of speaking was soft and low, but her words were passionate as she spoke of her love of poetry and the power of the written and spoken word to uplift us all. Nye's career as a poet was solidly established with her poetry written for adults long before she came back to the remembered delights of children's literature as an author. She describes the birth of her own child as one step in this return: "One of the delights of having our son was that it was now legitimate for me to return to that part of the library I so loved when I was young." In her poetry, Nye captures everyday details of life in all their simplicity and complexity. She balances her own perspective with a keen sense of the impact of details in the life of a child, which gives her work immediate accessibility for a young audience. In her poem Spinning (from the book

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