Tag Archives: Naomi Shihab Nye

Eating Intentionally and Ethically

A new book, “Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically,” is introduced by Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Truth Serum.”

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Peace Poems for Israel and Gaza

Two peace poems, by an Israeli and a Palestinian-American, invite us to step beyond the hostilities.

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Different Ways to Pray

In “Different Ways to Pray,” Naomi Shihab Nye expands the ways we can get in touch with the divine.

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March Madness Is Divinest Sense (Sort of)

Having a March Madness bracket for poems provided excitement for kids and enlightenment for this teacher.

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A Trans Activist and a Poetic Judge

When forced to rule against transgender student Gavin Grimm because of a Trump administration directive, the sympathetic judge quoted a Naomi Shihab Nye poem. I examine the poem here and show why it is applicable to Gavin’s case.

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How the Dead Talk to Us

Naomi Shihab Nye finds that the dead talk to us through the new closeness that we experience with those who remain.

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What Does a True Arab Do Now?

In “Blood,” Naomi Shihab Nye grieves the massacres of Lebanese Palestinians in a poem that calls out for us to see each other as individuals and not as racial Others.

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Finding a Place Where Hate Won’t Grow

In charged Israeli-Palestinian and Christian-Muslim relations, Naomi Shihab Nye is looking at how to move past the suffering and hate.

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Hear the Words under the Words

  Spiritual Sunday I’m trying not to overreact to the anti-Muslim sentiment blowing through the United States at the moment. I keep telling myself that there is a core decency to Americans and that most are not stampeded into hysterical hatred by demagogic political and religious leaders. Although the United States has not always welcomed […]

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