The sixth poem in our Palestine Advent series is by Naomi Shihab Nye.
A Palestinian Might Say, by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was a Palestinian refugee and her mother an American of German and Swiss descent, and Nye spent her adolescence in both Jerusalem and San Antonio, Texas. Her many books include Tender Spot: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2015) and The Tiny Journalist (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019), from which this poem comes.
With thanks to Natalie Jabbar and Chris Rose for inspiring this idea.
Published by Anthony Wilson
I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, is available now from Blue Diode Publishing. My current research project, funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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