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“'Kindness' by Naomi Shihab Nye is Poets.org’s Most Popular Contemporary Poem in 2018”

•  Academy of American Poets

• Article

“Naomi Shihab Nye”

•  Academy of American Poets

• Biography

“Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address”

•  Steve Jobs

• Speech

Quotations Handout

•  Odell Education

• Quotations

"How to Give a Killer Presentation"

•  Chris Anderson

• Essay

"Emma Thompson Reads Naomi Shihab Nye's Poem 'Kindness'"

•  S Bettina Brand

• Video

“'Kindness' by Naomi Shihab Nye, a Poetry Film by Ana Pérez López"

•  Naomi Shihab Nye and Ana Pérez López

• Video

"Naomi Shihab Nye Reads 'Kindness'"

•  Naomi Shihab Nye

• Video

"The Education of Mi Hijita"

•  John Phillip Santos

• Essay

"Revelations in the Key of K"

•  Mary Karr

• Poem

"The Work You Do, the Person You Are"

•  Toni Morrison

• Essay

"Necessary Failure"

•  Tarfia Faizullah

• Essay

"Facing It"

•  Yusef Komunyakaa

• Poem

"The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual"

•  Ada Limón

• Poem

"An Ancient Voice"

•  Lucas Lored

• Essay

"Mind No Mind"

•  Jia Tolentino

• Essay

“A Song in the Front Yard”

•  Gwendolyn Brooks

• Poem

“Mending Wall”

•  Robert Frost

• Poem

“The Red Poppy”

•  Louise Glück

• Poem

“The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual”

•  Ada Limón

• Poem

"The American Family Today"

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• Statistical Article

"The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá"

•  Susan Dominus

• Article

"What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness"

•  Robert Waldinger

• TedX Video Talk

"Still Life"

•  Skip Hollandsworth

• Journalism

"Connecting to Faraway Family via My Grandmother’s Mexican Stew"

•  Marcelena Campos Mayhorn

• Essay

"What is a Community Anyway?"

•  David M. Chavis and Kien Lee

• Article

"On the Cusp of Adulthood and Facing an Uncertain Future: What We Know about Gen Z So Far"

•  Kim Parker and Ruth Igielnik

• Statistical Article

"There's More to Life Than Being Happy"

•  Emily Esfahani Smith

• Article

"Diving into the Wreck"

•  Adrienne Rich

• Poem

"House for Sale"

•  Jonathan Franzen

• Essay

"Downtown is for People"

•  Jane Jacobs

• Op Ed

"Fog Patterns"

•  Ben Hecht

• Essay