Naomi Shihab Nye — Your Life Is a Poem
Naomi Shihab Nye — Your Life Is a Poem
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Growing up, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye lived in Ferguson, Missouri and on the road between Ramallah and Jerusalem. Her father was a refugee Palestinian journalist, and through her poetry, she carries forward his hopeful passion, his insistence, that language must be a way out of cycles of animosity.