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The Naomi Shihab Nye Prize is newly established with the aim of encouraging writers in our Arab community to create book length stories by and about Arab people and culture for young readers
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Maine Media Workshops + College is partnering with The Poets Corner in organizing a prize for poetry. The winning submission will receive a $1,000 prize and 20 copies of a limited edition letterpress printed chapbook. The winning chapbook will be...
Poetry Near You Are you looking to connect with poets or find opportunities to hear or study poetry? To find poetry events and resources near you, simply enter your zip code in the search field below. search From Tribe and Fire: A Poetry Benefit in Celebration of the Students of the S.H.E. Fund Join us for an inspirational event to uplift women's voices and support the students of the Safe House Education (S.H.E.) Fund. This virtual event will feature poets Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield, Marie Howe, Danusha Laméris; musicians Jami Sieber, Agu, and Muthoni Drummer Queen; and t...
Transcript Krista Tippett, host: It’s pretty intriguing to follow Naomi Shihab Nye’s idea that most of us actually “think in poems,” whether we know it or not. What she commends as a simple practice of writing explains the surprising power of what I know best from a long life of journaling. The act of writing things down just helps. As she says, it can be a tool to survive in hard times, or to anchor our days, but also to get into a more gracious community with ourselves — or rather, with all of the selves that live on in each of us at any given moment: the “child self, your older...