Nye is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her more than 30 volumes of work, including the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Book Critics Circle, the Lavan Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Carity Randall Prize, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry award, the Robert Creeley Prize, and many Pushcart Prizes. She has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and she was a Witter Bynner Fellow. From 2010 to 2015 she served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2018 she was awarded the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters. Nye also served as the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate.
As a culmination to our school-wide inquiry into poetry, Naomi will work with all FISW students from First Steps through Grade 8 engaging them in poetry workshops. Naomi will share her process, write with our students, put poetry to music and encourage all of us to share the gift of poetry with each other.
Please explore the following resources to learn more about Naomi’s work and other poetry for children:
- Poetry Choice Board (also located on the FISW Library home page)
