“We will survive / hold a little beauty during difficult times / Quiet feels round as a planet / surely a bigger quiet / holds us all.” In this HarperStacks at Home video, Naomi Shihab Nye reads from her new collection, Cast Away: Poems for Our Time (Greenwillow Books, 2020), and talks about her connection to the things that people throw away.
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