Tag Archives: Naomi Shihab Nye

Carrie Fountain with Naomi Shihab Nye, 16 March 2014 – Video

Recorded at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 16, 2014, as part of Lannan’s Poetry Sundays.

Carrie Fountain’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House, and Poetry, among other publications. Her debut collection, Burn Lake, was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner and was published in 2010 by Penguin. Born and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico, Fountain received her MFA as a fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas and teaches at St. Edward’s University in Austin, where she lives with her husband, the playwright Kirk Lynn, and their two children. Her second collection, Instant Winner, will be published by Penguin in October of 2014.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Carrie Fountain with Naomi Shihab Nye, 16 March 2014 – Audio

Recorded at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 16, 2014, as part of Lannan’s Poetry Sundays.

Carrie Fountain with Naomi Shihab Nye

Carrie Fountain’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House, and Poetry, among other publications. Her debut collection, Burn Lake, was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner and was published in 2010 by Penguin. Born and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico, Fountain received her MFA as a fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas and teaches at St. Edward’s University in Austin, where she lives with her husband, the playwright Kirk Lynn, and their two children. Her second collection, Instant Winner, will be published by Penguin in October of 2014.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the video recording of this event there.

Nathalie Handal with Naomi Shihab Nye, 24 October 2012 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 24, 2012.

Nathalie Handal with Naomi Shihab Nye

Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, writer, and a cultural and literary activist. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her most recent poetry collections include Love and Strange Horses, winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, and Poet in Andalucia, described as “a unique recreation, in reverse, of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Poet in New York.” Alice Walker lauds Handal’s work as “poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve.” She is also the editor of the groundbreaking The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology and co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond.

Her most recent plays have been produced at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey, London. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including the Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, Guernica Magazine, Words without Borders, Ploughshares, Poetry New Zealand, and Stand Magazine.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the video recordings of this event there.

Nathalie Handal with Naomi Shihab Nye, Conversation, 24 October 2012 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 24, 2012.

Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, writer, and a cultural and literary activist. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her most recent poetry collections include Love and Strange Horses, winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, and Poet in Andalucía, described as “a unique recreation, in reverse, of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York.” Alice Walker lauds Handal’s work as “poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve.” She is also the editor of the groundbreaking The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology and co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond.

Her most recent plays have been produced at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey, London. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including the Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, Guernica Magazine, Words without Borders, Ploughshares, Poetry New Zealand, and Stand Magazine.

In this episode she is joined in conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye. The companion Reading episode may be found here.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the audio recordings of this event there.

Nathalie Handal with Naomi Shihab Nye, Reading, 24 October 2012 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 24, 2012.

Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, writer, and a cultural and literary activist. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her most recent poetry collections include Love and Strange Horses, winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, and Poet in Andalucía, described as “a unique recreation, in reverse, of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York.” Alice Walker lauds Handal’s work as “poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve.” She is also the editor of the groundbreaking The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology and co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond.

Her most recent plays have been produced at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey, London. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including the Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, Guernica Magazine, Words without Borders, Ploughshares, Poetry New Zealand, and Stand Magazine.

In this episode she is introduced by Naomi Shihab Nye and then reads from her work. The companion Conversation episode may be found here.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the audio recordings of this event there.

W. S. Merwin with Naomi Shihab Nye, Conversation, 18 October 2000 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 18, 2000.

W.S. Merwin poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read poets in America, with a career spanning five decades. The son of a Presbyterian minister, for whom he began writing hymns at the age of five, Merwin went to Europe as a young man and developed a love of languages that led to work as a literary translator.

Over the years, his poetic voice has moved from the more formal and medieval to a more distinctly American voice. W.S. Merwin’s recent poetry is perhaps his most personal, arising from his deeply held anti-imperialist, pacifist, and environmentalist beliefs. In 2005 he will have three new books: Migration: Selected Poems 1951-2001; a book of poems called Present Company; and the memoir Summer Doorways which chronicles his days as a student in seminary school and at Princeton, through the next years spent as a tutor for children of privilege living abroad.
William Merwin was the recipient of the 2004 Lannan Literary Lifetime Achievement Award.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.

W.S. Merwin with Naomi Shihab Nye, 18 October 2000 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 18, 2000.

W.S. Merwin poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read poets in America, with a career spanning five decades. The son of a Presbyterian minister, for whom he began writing hymns at the age of five, Merwin went to Europe as a young man and developed a love of languages that led to work as a literary translator.

Over the years, his poetic voice has moved from the more formal and medieval to a more distinctly American voice. W.S. Merwin’s recent poetry is perhaps his most personal, arising from his deeply held anti-imperialist, pacifist, and environmentalist beliefs. In 2005 he will have three new books: Migration: Selected Poems 1951-2001; a book of poems called Present Company; and the memoir Summer Doorways which chronicles his days as a student in seminary school and at Princeton, through the next years spent as a tutor for children of privilege living abroad.

William Merwin was the recipient of the 2004 Lannan Literary Lifetime Achievement Award.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.