Tag Archives: Middle East

Jerusalem by Naomi Shihab Nye

Posted on March 15, 2023 by wordcloud9

Naomi Shihab Nye was born in 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother; poet, songwriter, children’s author, novelist, and editor. In 1966, when she was 14, her family moved to the West Bank because … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: EXTRAVAGANT (Redux for Poetry Month)

Posted on April 12, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is just a breath of Purtianism lurking in most American poetry. We admire the winnowing of excess words, the spareness of poets like Frost and Sandburg and the prose of Hemingway and Steinbeck. American poets … Continue reading →

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A Poem for the New and Ancient Math

Posted on March 6, 2019 by wordcloud9

“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.”   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – Sonya Kovalevsky “Naomi Shihab Nye is an American, … Continue reading →

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