The Tiny Journalist

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

"A moving testament to the impact one person can have and the devastating effects of occupation." -Washington Post Best Poetry Books of 2019 Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in her latest full-length poetry collection for adults. The collection is inspired by the story of Janna Jihad Ayyad, the "Youngest Journalist in Palestine," who at age 7 began capturing videos of anti-occupation protests using her mother's smartphone. Nye draws upon her own family's roots in a West Bank village near Janna's hometown to offer empathy and insight to the young girl's reporting. Long an advocate for peaceful communication across all boundaries, Nye's poems in The Tiny Journalist put a human face on war and the violence that divides us from each other.

Reviews

Publishers Weekly, starred review

Incisive and unsparing, Nye's poems will buzz in readers' brains long after reading them.
Booklist

On every page, Shihab Nye's insistent call is the same: people, all people, deserve to live safe and healthy lives, free from fear and violence. She mourns, rages, takes politicians to task, but always lands on the side of compassion.
Shelf Awareness

While Naomi Shihab Nyes newest book of poetry offers no easy answers, its questions push well beyond the margin of the pages. What happens when were reminded not just of human rights injustices but of the quotidian moments in the lives of those affected Reminded that they too live in this very modern world, with wants and needs as expansive and equally as simple as our own
World Literarure Today

From her own understanding and research, her fathers stories and information gleaned from Jannas posts, Nye creates poetry that imagines the turbulent life of a little girl in a world of war and injustice.
Ms. Magazine

This book is more than a book of poems. It is a call for awakening.
Lone Star Literary Life

This poet, always Americas sweetheart, has shared her life with us through her career, warmth, and wisdom earning our validation and now, even more, she makes emotion and the world meld, to give an in-depth analysis of her besieged land, letting us know how it appears from inside. In connecting the land and the sea, possibilities and tragedies, poetry reaches the high bar.
Washington Independent Review of Books

Author Bio

Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than thirty volumes including four collections of poetry from BOA Editions: Red Suitcase (1994), Fuel (1998), You & Yours (2005), and Transfer (2011). She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Witter Bynner Fellow. Her numerous awards include a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, the Patterson Poetry Prize, the Robert Creeley Prize and the Betty Prize from Poets House for her service to poetry. In January 2010, Nye was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. A self-described "wandering poet," she makes her home in San Antonio, Texas.