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Grace Notes
National Book Award finalist and former Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye’s "Grace Notes: Poems about Families" celebrates family and community. This rich collection of one hundred never-before-published poems is also the poet’s most personal work to date. With poems about her own...
The Wrong End of the Telescope
Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a...

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Grace Notes

Grace Notes May 7, 2024

National Book Award finalist and former Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye’s "Grace Notes: Poems about Families" celebrates family and community. This rich collection of one hundred never-before-published poems is also the poet’s most personal work to date. With poems about her own...
The Wrong End of the Telescope

The Wrong End of the Telescope September 21, 2021

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a...