
Deep in the Hearts of Children: 50 Years of Public Poetry
Our outgoing Poetry Editor reflects on decades of artistic expression and education in the Lone Star State.
Since 1954
Naomi Shihab Nye was the poetry editor of the Texas Observer for 28 years. She is a poet, essayist, and novelist living in San Antonio. She has edited eight anthologies of poetry, including Is This Forever or What? Poems & Paintings from Texas. Her collection 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is the author of two acclaimed novels for teens, Habibi and Going Going, and a recent novel for children, The Turtle of Oman.
Our outgoing Poetry Editor reflects on decades of artistic expression and education in the Lone Star State.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who died at 91 last week, liked pausing by roadsides everywhere in Texas to examine plants, pocket seeds and smell the air.
Meeting Edward Said at the Alamo
"Your Poem is Happening All Over"