Today is the last day of a two week poetry and creative nonfiction workshop by Naomi Shihab Nye I’ve had the honor of taking. She’s funny, down to earth, warm, and endlessly generous. Last week she gave a wonderful reading at the Great Plains, reading pieces from Honeybee and Your & Yours, including two of my favorites: “Gate 4-A” and a piece on the McNay Museum. Several of my students attended the readings and almost all of my women’s poetry class. They were as excited and enthralled as I was. One student said she was still giddy, a week later. The few who didn’t go, seemed visibly upset to have missed it.