This week we visit with Naomi Shihab Nye in San Antonio, Texas.

Naomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a “wandering poet.” She has spent more than 40 years traveling the country and the world to lead writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages. Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother and grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio. Drawing on her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her experiences traveling in Asia, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East, Nye uses her writing to attest to our shared humanity.

Naomi is the author and/or editor of more than 30 volumes of poetry, four novels, and an essay and short story collection.

Learn more about Naomi at the American Academy of Poets.

Naomi's Books on the Bed:

Garden Time by M.S. Merwin

Every War Has Two Losers by William Stafford

An Ordinary Woman by Lucille Clifton

Does the Land Remember Me? A Memoir of Palestine by Aziz Shihab

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

The Year I Stopped to Notice by Miranda Keeling

Matt's Gifts for Naomi:

The Listening Skin by Glenis Redmond

George Masa: A Life Reimagined by Janet McCue and Paul Bonesteel

Ways of Being Home by Cecilia Sotelo Cornejo (film)