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Naomi Shihab Nye: Different Ways to Pray

There were the men who had been shepherds so long

they walked like sheep.

Under the olive trees, they raised their arms—

Hear us! We have pain on earth!

July 21, 2024 · 11 Comments

Angele Ellis: “I lived in the dark” | In Grace Notes, Naomi Shihab Nye finds the music in poems about families and the incidents and accidents of personal history

All poetry begins in song, as Naomi Shihab Nye reminds the reader, starting with the title of her latest collection, 117 mostly brief free verse poems that like songs, are both accessible and mysterious.

July 5, 2024 · 7 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye: Before I Was A Gazan

I was a boy

and my homework was missing,

paper with numbers on it,

stacked and lined

June 26, 2024 · 16 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye: Everything in Our World Did Not Seem to Fit

Once they started invading us.

Taking our houses and trees, drawing lines,

pushing us into tiny places.

June 5, 2024 · 20 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye: Bees Were Better

I studied bees, who were able

to convey messages through dancing

and could find their ways

home to their hives

April 20, 2024 · 5 Comments

James Crews: The Poetry of Connection and Joy | A Conversation with Michael Simms

My husband is a farmer, so we often wake up before first light, and I go off on my own with a big cup of coffee to scribble in my notebook for a few hours.

April 19, 2024 · 10 Comments

James Crews: We Are Constellations

So much coexists in the heart’s container,

as in a carved teak bowl on the table.

April 10, 2024 · 4 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye: Jerusalem

He’s painting a bird with wings

wide enough to cover two roofs at once.

November 26, 2023 · 21 Comments

Mosab Abu Toha, et al: Ceasefire Cento

Each morning

I wake

in the shape

of an ancient

song

November 13, 2023 · 11 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye: Little Farmer

how right he was about slowness,

the path of sunlight through leaves,

how dirt has always befriended me,

September 5, 2023 · 16 Comments

Robert Service: Compassion

For God knows it is good to give;

We may not have so long to live,

So if we can,

Let’s do each day a kindly deed,

And stretch a hand to those in need,

Bird, beast or man.

March 10, 2023 · Leave a comment

Naomi Shihab Nye: Blood

Homeless fig, this tragedy with a terrible root

is too big for us. What flag can we wave?

I wave the flag of stone and seed,

table mat stitched in blue.

February 19, 2023 · 17 Comments

Video: “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye

In this short animated video, Naomi Shihab Nye reads her famous poem “Kindness.”

February 6, 2022 · 2 Comments