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A poem about the deepest thing inside and the other deepest thing, sorrow, and how kindness makes sense. Read the full text of Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye, a poet who explores the themes of identity, culture, and humanity.
Read the full text of "Kindness", a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye that explores the deepest things inside sorrow and kindness. Learn how the poem was inspired by a tragic event in Colombia and why it resonated with over 250,000 readers in 2018.
Based on the details you just shared with your small group and the resource from the beginning of class, what does kindness mean to the speaker? How does that compare to the song from the beginning of class?
Read a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, a Palestinian-American poet, about the difficulty of dealing with happiness. The poem explores the fleeting and uncontrollable nature of happiness and how it affects the speaker's life and surroundings.
A poem about a chance encounter with a Palestinian woman at an airport gate, and the shared humanity and hospitality they find in each other. Read the full text, watch a video of the poet reading, and learn more about the poem and its context.
Naomi Shihab Nye gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit.
Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive.
Read poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, a Palestinian-American poet and educator. Explore her themes of kindness, sorrow, and loss in her selected works.
A poem about the experience of being in two countries, of having two cultures, of feeling the weight of history and identity. The poem explores the themes of skin, love, hope, and travel through metaphors and images.
Naomi Shihab Nye gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit.