Naomi Shihab Nye events
‘Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life.’ – William Stafford
Naomi Shihab Nye has published over 20 books, including poetry, essays, picture books, novels and anthologies for younger readers. She has received many literary awards, and has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress), and poet-in-residence at Ledbury Poetry Festival in the UK. She was Young People's Poet Laureate in the United States in 2019-21, the seventh poet and the first Arab American author to be named to the post. She is the recipient of the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets which is given annually to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.
Her many poetry books include Tender Spot: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), first published in 2008 and later expanded to include later work, including a selection from her 2011 collection Transfer as well as newer poems.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Sunday 15th November, 3pm
Push The Boat Out - In Conversation: Naomi Shihab Nye
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye read live! Naomi is celebrated for poetry which homes in on and celebrates everyday events, people and objects, and her work has been described as “international in scope and internal in focus”. Join the former Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S., in conversation with Alycia Pirmohamed, for mixture of readings and discussion of her work, which is by turns humorous, immediate and urgently political.
Booking and more details here.
[07 October 2026]
