“AN EVENING WITH NAOMI SHIHAB NYE”

The Henry Madden Library, Young Writers’ Conference, Students of English Studies Association, San Joaquin Literary Association, and College of Arts & Humanities invite you to:

“AN EVENING WITH NAOMI SHIHAB NYE”
(POET, NOVELIST, EDUCATOR)

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: California State University, Fresno
Satellite Student Union
(FREE for all ages)

Nye, an Arab-American, writes poems that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. Her collections of poems and essays include Different Ways to Pray, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, and Never in a Hurry. She is the author of Habibi and editor of many anthologies of poems, including This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from around the World and Is This Forever, or What? She is the winner of four Pushcart Prizes, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize.

“Naomi Shihab Nye is a voice that America needs in its time of trouble.
Her clarity combined with her verbal kindness and her knowledge of multiple cultures provide a strong, audible message that the only hope for reconciliation and understanding lies in the ideals set by the human heart.”

—Billy Collins

For additional information please contact:

Samina Najmi, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor, Multiethnic U.S. Literature

Phone: (559) 278-2660
E-mail: snajmi@csufresno.edu