The winners of the first Smith College Poetry Prize, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye, spent Tuesday afternoon at Smith meeting with Nye and poets at the college. President Carol T. Christ presened the prizes at Nye's evening reading, and each read her winning poem.

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A Palestinian-American, Nye calls herself a “wandering poet,” growing up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio. Since 1980, she has written more than 20 books including poetry, anthologies, novels, and children's literature. Her book 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award. Nye continues to reach ever younger and broader audiences with such collections as The Tree is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems and Stories from Mexico.

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