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Contains 14 Results:

O

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents “Oats,” “Ocean,” “The Ocean of Hope,” “October, California,” “Office 337, Wheeler Hall, Berkeley,” “Old Crying,” “Old Days,” “The Old Friend Has Longer Hair,” “Old Friends,” “Old Man in Canada,” “The old man stood in his suit and said,” “The Old Yellow Chair,” “Olive Jar,” “Olive Skin, Olive Bones,” “On a hot humid summer evening in a small town in south Texas,” “On Being the Daughter,” “On Counting Chickens,” “On Learning My Childhood Best Friend Became an Unwed Mother,” “On Moving Bruce...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

P

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents “A Pacifist Declares War at the Mercedes Dealer,” “Pacify,” “The Palace Cafe, Shiner, Texas,” “Pakistan with Open Arms,” "A Palestinian Might Say," “Papaya,” “Parade,” “Parking Lot,” “Parts,” “Passing the Seminary Cemetery on the Way to the Airport,” “Password,” “Peter Pan Man Poem,” “Phone Number Written on a Leaf,” “Photograph - for my parents,” “Pictures from the Village,” “Pilgrimage,” “Pioneers,” “Plans,” “Pocket - for Bob Bonazzi,” “Pockets,” “a poem again,” "Poem for Nancy and Lou,"...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

Q-R

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents “Questions One Might Ask Upon Leaving Haystack - To Stuart, from Naomi,” “A quiet nineteenth spring,” "Quilting Class," "Quilts," “The Radiance of Waves - for Harryette Mullen,” “Rain,” “Realizing Exactly What Happened at One O’Clock in the Morning,” “Remembered,” “The Rider,” “Rinse,” “Riviera Beach, Texas & My Twenty-Third Birthday,” “Road Test,” “The Road to Aleppo,” “Rock,” “Rock and Roll Thanksgiving,” “Room,” Rose,” “The Round Window Waits with its Eye Half Open,” “Roy Perez is...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

Salmon-Some

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents “Salmon River in the Rain,” “San Antonio,” “San Antonio Song,” “Santa Barbara,” “Santa Fe,” “Saving Half a Rainbow,” “Saying So - for Chula,” “A School in Jerusalem,” “School bell,” “Seaside Memorial Park, Corpus Christi, Texas,” “Second-to-Last Words,” “Secrets of Housekeeping,” “Sedona Inspirational Hymn,” “Senor de la Basura Dios te Mira,” “Shelbyville," “The Shiner Museum (Shiner, Texas),” “Shoo-fly Pie,” “Shrine of Hair,” “Shrines,” “Signs,” “The Silence of Hutchinson, Kansas: A Letter...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

Somebody-Swimmer

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents “Somebody’s Story,” “‘Someday,” he said, ‘we will all float down the Potomac,'” “Someone is Standing on the Roof of the World,” “Sometimes,” “Sometimes driving across the expanses of the western United States,” “Sometimes I Know Why Jack Kerouac Drank and Then Sometimes I Drink - Mark Rasette,” “Sometimes I Pretend,” “'Sometimes If You Stir the Water Around It Revives Them',” “Somewhere in the Greens,” “The Song,” “South Main,” “A Specific Poem for Edna, Texas, May 21, 1979,” “Speechless -...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

T Train-Time

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents “T Train,” “Table for One,” “Take-Off Poem,” “Talking Forever – for Palestine and Dareen Tatour,” “Tasting Your Food,” “Tea Seller, Rajasthan,” “Ted Kooser Is My President,” “Telephone,” “The Telling of Time,” “Texas Cavaliers Cancel River Parade,” “Texas Grill, Thanksgiving Eve,” “Texas in the Old Days,” “Texas, the First Time,” “Thank You,” “That Skinny Tip of Land,” “There Is a Box in my Closet Full of Hugging,” “There is a Huge, Dead Raccoon Under the Boat Get it Out and Why?,” “There...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

To-Two

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents "To a field,” “To Free that Ache,” “To Love You,” “To Marc who said, “Constantly in the Company,” “To My Texas Handbook,” “To One Now Grown,” “To Saint Christopher and Dave from Sunday Roller,” “To the People Who Keep Showing Up,” “To the Person Who Sent Me My First Piece of Hate Mail (Which Arrived on Valentine’s Day) or Thanks A Lot,” “To the Tree Frogs Outside the Window,” “Today Jude Went to Heaven,” “Today while standing in a post office that never,” “Touring the Old Neighborhood,”...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

U-V

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

“An Unobscure Wise Poem for William Blake," “Up in the middle of the night & so very unfree of my body,” "An Ushering Poem for All Ushers Everywhere,” “Valentine for Ernest Mann,” “Vocabulary of a Hen,” “A Voice in the Restaurant,” “Voices.”

Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

Walking-When

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents “Walking Down Blanco Road at Midnight,” “Walking Downtown,” “War,” “Washing Clothes,” “Watching Mothers at the Laundromat Cross Their Legs, Left Over Right,” “Watching People Through Lighted Windows Eating Dinner,” “Watching You When You’re Not Looking,” “The Way They Drive in Mexico,” “We All Hail to Thee and Thy Name Forever,” “We Who Are Expecting Nothing,” “We will keep our freshness with us,” “Wedding Cake,” “A Week Before the Election,” “The West Side, San Antonio, 1981,” “Westbound,”...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

Where-Wrong

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents “Where did it come from?,” “Wherever I Am, It’s Not Here,” “Wherever We Go, We Come to This,” “While I Was in Canada, I Dreamed of You Once,” “While in Victoria Texas for the Armadillo Race - for C.B.,” “While Standing on the Edge of the Guadalupe River,” “While Wandering Through Restaurant Supply Houses June 1975,” “White Hair,” “White Hair Over the Rocky Mountains,” “Who?,” “Whoever Art Was Sleeping With, It Wasn't Me,” “Why, at the Age of Twenty-Three, I Am Still Not a Ski Sweater?,” “Why...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

Y

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

“Yellow Glove,” “Yes,” “You,” “You Are a Quiet Song,” “You Are Not at Home,” “You Can’t Fool Me,” “You sit in my yard like the Sphinx of ancient Egypt,” “Your Name,” “Your Weight, at Birth,” “You're So Nice I Will Kiss You On the Bones,” “You’re welcome!.”

Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

Multiple

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents “Day one flight of a mind,” “Mad,” “Phone Number Written on a Leaf,” “Silver Bracelet,” “Hairs,” “Hiding Inside the Good Girl,” “Whiplash,” and “We’re driving south in Oregon in a car filled with stories," 4 typewritten pages. “Famous,” “My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop,” “The Story, Around the Corner,” and “Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change," 3 printout pages. “Five unpublished tiny poems for my Daddy,” “My Immigrant Dad, On Voting,” “Daddy Help Us!,” “Daddy Died But,” and “C’Mon Daddy,” 4...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

Multiple

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents “In memory, Al Mueller, Mueller’s Organic Farm, Ferguson, Missouri”, “From Earth,” “Job,” “The Mind of Squash,” “Shade,” “Tether,” “Junk,” “I Was Thinking of Poems,” “What Happened to Everybody,” 2 copies of each, 18 printout pages. “Knitting, Crocheting, Sewing…,” “Birthday,” “Faces Coming Out of Carnegie Hall,” and “Salmon River in the Rain,” 5 printout pages. “Leaving Him,” “Violin,” “Frontier,” and “What She Was Doing at Home,” 1 typewritten page. “Little Blanco River,” “I Don’t Want to...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s

Multiple

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents “Poetry by Naomi Shihab Nye,” includes “Voices,” “For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh,” “If God Won’t Take Me, Why Won’t the Devil?,” “Making a Fist,” “Shoulders,” “Morning Paper, Society Page,” “Famous,” “Texas, the First Time,” and “What Is Supposed to Happen,” 2 typewritten pages. “Poetry Reading on Wednesday, February 11, 1987," a selection of 10 poems from Yellow Glove, including “The Gardener,” “Looking for the Cat Grave,” “Telling the Story,” “What is Given, What Is Not...
Dates: circa 1970s - circa 2010s