Naomi Shihab Nye
@YPPLaureate
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Young People's Poet Laureate
San Antonio, TX
Joined April 2009
Naomi Shihab Nye, the current Young People's Poet Laureate, is now the poet behind the @YPPLaureate account! Earlier tweets are by past laureates. Follow this account for updates on her work, children's poetry, and more. #poetry #kidlit
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A wonderful collaborative poem from the great Hathaway Brown School in Cleveland and the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, Ohio! Fine model for a Valentine Group poem!.
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Let's speak out (and subscribe!) to try to save literary magazines! Alaska Quarterly Review has long been one of my favorites. And who didn't LOVE the Believer?.
cnn.com
Across the country, universities are slowly, quietly, cutting funding and shutting their literary publications down. Even magazines not connected to universities are closing their doors – a trend...
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Ashley Bryan lives forever!.
nytimes.com
A prolific and eclectic artist, he filled his books with Black characters and injected rhythm into African folk tales.
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Wonderful profile of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo!.
thedailybeast.com
The first Native American poet laureate has married writing to a spiritual quest, and she plays a mean saxophone.
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Thank you, wonderful poet and teacher Joseph Ross! .
americamagazine.org
Joseph Ross, an English teacher at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C., says poetry requires us to look deeply at the world around us.
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Edward Hirsch recently edited the amazing anthology 100 Poems to Break Your Heart and some of us celebrated it on this evening:.
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Audiobooks, anyone? Here's a new set, from me. Thank you BOA Editions Ltd. and our backyard home studio!.
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Please note - full scholarships available! James Crews and Danusha Lameris, poets & teachers extraordinaire!.
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HERE'S INFO ON ANOTHER 3-session webinar BY THE LUMINOUS MARK NEPO in Nov 2021 called The Fire of Aliveness: Coming Back into the World ( Nov 21, 28, Dec 5, 2021, 1-2:30PM ET). Registration for this webinar is NOW OPEN at
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