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Source: FB Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore  —Naomi Shihab Nye  "Kindness" was Poets.org 's most popular poem in 2018 by a contemporary poet: www.poets.org/poetsorg/stanza/kindness-naomi-shihab-nye-poetsorgs-most-popular-contemporary-poem-2018 Naomi Shihab Nye, Popular Poems, Contemporary Poetry, Poetry Month, Happy May, Poetry Art, Poetic Justice, American Poets, Writing Poems

New York, NY (December 19, 2018)—The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that the most popular poem in 2018 by a contemporary poet on Poets.org was “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye. More than 250,000 individuals read or viewed the poem online in the past twelve months. The poem reads in part: Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of…

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