Cal State LA’s Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics presents:
The 2022 Jean Burden Poetry Reading, featuring Naomi Shihab Nye
Cal State LA’s Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics welcomes Naomi Shihab Nye as our 2022 reader in the Jean Burden Poetry Series. An author of more than thirty books for both adults and children, Nye’s work is informed by her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her conviction in the optimistic power of poetry. Her work as a poet, essayist, editor of anthologies, and author of children’s literature has received every kind of accolade. She has been lauded as a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress), and received awards including a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, four Pushcart Prizes, the Robert Creeley Prize, “The Betty Prize” from Poets House, and two Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards. She is Chancellor Emeritus for the Academy of American Poets, and has most recently served as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate.
“Nye’s free verse tells of the wisdom, solace and beauty she has found and urges readers to join her, to listen with her, to create space to make sense of their experiences in an often difficult world.” – New York Times
“She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life.” – William Stafford
“Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most spirited voices in American poetry.” – Philadelphia Inquirer
Free and Open to the Public
Register on Zoom.