Naomi Shihab Nye, the daughter of a Palestinian father and a German-and-Swiss American mother, reflects both cultures in her work. A noted poet of the Southwest, she is also a voice for Arab Americans. Her books include Hugging the Jukebox, Red Suitcase, Fuel, Transfer, and What Have You Lost? She has received Lannan, Guggenheim, and Witter Bynner fellowships, as well as the Lavan Award.

Other poems by Naomi Shihab Nye in Verse Daily:
October 15, 2011:   "'Bees see your face as a strange flower.'" "Nashville warblers see you as a scary-looking tree...."

Books by Naomi Shihab Nye:

Other poems on the web by Naomi Shihab Nye:
Twenty-five poems
Forty-one poems
"The Rider"
"The Spacious Mind"
"Hiding Place Inside the Early Hour"

Naomi Shihab Nye According to Wikipedia.

About America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience:

"Poetry is one of the oldest forms of resistance. Entering not only our minds but our hearts, poems can swim under the highest walls erected by the powerful, subverting the most staggering onslaughts of distortion and outright lies, undermining threats, answering despair, rescuing the simplest and yet most profound ways that we know, reviving our courage, inviting action. Tyrants, despots, fascists of all kinds, beware this book. It may bring even you to your senses!"
—Susan Griffin

"'The master's tools,' writes Audre Lorde, 'will never dismantle the master's house.' Poems are one of humanity's most important tools because they operate outside of policy, outside of the system. They are the instruments of the people not of the palace. This timely, urgent, and vital collection reminds us of the civic work poems do. They deliver a different kind of knowing—a deeper wisdom—than conventional news or posts or feeds. The resistance and resilience of these poems comfort and connect us, but they also catalyze our voices and our collective rage. Wallace Stevens once wrote, 'Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.' America, We Call Your Name gives me hope in our work as poets and as citizens."
—Dean Rader