Creating Poetry from the Everyday

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Push the Boat Out is delighted to host this online workshop with the Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye!

How can we create poetry which draws on ordinary and everday moments, imbuing them with new meaning and fresh perspectives? Naomi Shihab Nye's writing is known for doing just that, and she has described her idea of the primary source of poetry as "local life, random characters met on the streets, our own ancestry sifting down to us through small essential daily tasks.” Join the award-winning poet for a workshop on how to tackle mundane moments in your poetic practice.

Naomi Shihab Nye has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S. (Poetry Foundation), poetry editor for the New York Times magazine, and a visiting writer in hundreds of schools and communities all over the world. Her books include Grace Notes (Poems About Families), Everything Comes Next, The Tiny Journalist, Voices in the Air and The Tree is Older than You Are: Poems & Paintings from Mexico. Her volume 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Texas Writer Award 2024, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Texas Institute of Letters, the Arab American National Museum, and the National Book Critics Circle.