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{"id":1601,"date":"2019-05-12T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2019-05-12T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T09:55:05","slug":"san-antonio-poet-naomi-shihab-nye-named-young-peoples-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1601&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Poet Naomi Shihab Nye Named Young People\u2019s Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Poet Naomi Shihab Nye was named Young People\u2019s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation on May 7, 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cPoetry lives everywhere,\u201d says poet Naomi Shihab Nye<\/a>, who was named the Young People\u2019s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation on May 7, 2019. \u201cWhether it\u2019s in a small village where no one has ever said the word poetry, or in an elementary school classroom\u2014there\u2019s no place that poetry doesn\u2019t live.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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If anyone can make that claim, it\u2019s Nye, writes Cat Cardenas for Texas Monthly<\/em>. Palestinian-American writer Naomi Shihab Nye, who lives in San Antonio, has dedicated the majority of her decades-long career to working with young writers across the world. Starting in 1974, she spent fifteen years traveling across Texas as a visiting writer with the Texas Commission on the Arts. In inner-city schools or rural communities, she saw up close the potential her students had to create works of poetry and draw on their own experiences.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s also something she knew firsthand. From the time she began writing at six years old, Nye drew upon the deep well of her bicultural upbringing. Her love of writing was shaped by her father\u2019s stories of his native Palestine and the books and poems her mother would read to her.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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By the time she learned to write, she remembers being gripped by the urge to jot down a poem. The first was a four-line piece she wrote in first grade that her teacher later posted in the hallway. \u201cI was overcome with the feeling that I needed to do this always,\u201d she says. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Nye has followed that passion for four decades, working as an editor, anthologist, songwriter, and author of eighteen novels, short stories, and poetry books for adult and young adult audiences. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Since 2006, the Young People\u2019s Poet Laureate honor has been awarded every other year to living writers who have dedicated their careers to writing poetry for young readers. According to Katherine Litwin, director of the Poetry Foundation, Nye is the first Arab-American to receive the honor. As Nye begins her term, she is particularly passionate about bringing poetry to rural areas that aren\u2019t often a priority for visiting writers. Through Nye\u2019s efforts, Litwin says she hopes a new generation of young adults are exposed to her work. \u201cHer writing is so warm and accessible\u2014it can be funny and also very sophisticated,\u201d Litwin said. \u201cIt never talks down to the reader, and that is what I hope young people will receive from hearing her.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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