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Article: Naomi Shihab Nye at Busboys
- Article from:
- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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ARAB-AMERICAN poet and writer Naomi Shihab Nye participated in a March 21 poetry reading for children at Busboys and Poets Bookstore in Washington, DC. Her appearance was part of this year's Split This Rock Poetry Festival, the goals of which are "To celebrate the poetry of witness and provocation being written, published, and performed in the United States today," and "To call poets to a greater role in public life and to equip them with the tools they need to be effective advocates in their communities and in the nation."
Nye is obviously proud of her heritage and of her late father, journalist Aziz Shihab, who was born in Palestine (see p. 70 for a review of his book Does the Land ...