Books
May 7, 2019
San Antonio–Based Poet Naomi Shihab Nye Named Young People’s Poet Laureate
The Palestinian-American author is the first Arab to receive the Poetry Foundation award.
Naomi Shihab Nye
The Culture
April 13, 2018
Maverick Still Haunts the City
The poet Naomi Shihab Nye pays tribute to Maury Maverick, Jr., one of San Antonio's greatest sons.
Books
July 31, 1996
Nye Anxiety
San Antonio poet, essayist, and anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye is completing work on her first novel. The protagonist of Habibi (Simon and Schuster) is an Arab American teenage girl in present-day Jerusalem. The book is based, Nye says, on her own “travels and travails before coming to Texas” and explores