naomi shihab nye is author of more than 25 volumes and winner of numerous awards. she is a member of the board of chancellors of the academy of american poets, and as we will hear, regularly conducts writing workshops around the country for young people. >> my name is naomi shihab nye. i live in san antonio texas. i have been working with students of all ages for 38 years, encouraging them to write their own poems and stories and discover how much material they have. i took the title for my recent book "transfer" from an actual airline's baggage tag, but i was thinking about all the different kinds of transfer we make in our lives from one stage of our lives to another. my mother, miriam shihab, exposed her children to art and culture as much as she could, and our father, aziz shihab, was an immigrant from palestine, a refugee. i was lucky to be told stories as a little child. our father brought tales out of this palestinian background to our bedsides, and the minute i could write when i was six years old, i wanted to start writing little detailed stories, poems of