Friday, June 23, 2023

Before You Can- a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye in Everything Comes Next



 

Naomi Shihab Nye

 Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and songwriter born in 1952 to a Palestinian father, Aziz Shihab, who worked as a journalist, editor and writer, and American mother, Miriam Allwardt Shihab, an artist who worked as a Montessori school teacher.[4] Her father grew up in Palestine. He and his family became refugees in 1948, when the state of Israel was created. She has said her father "seemed a little shell-shocked when I was a child."[5]   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Shihab_Nye

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