Bees Were Better

In 2017 in his introduction to Column 661 of American Life in Poetry, Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006, wrote in part, "The University of Minnesota Press has published a fine collection of bee poems, If Bees Are Few. Here's one by one of my favorite poets, Naomi Shihab Nye, who lives in San Antonio. . . . "

"In college, people were always breaking up." So begins Naomi Shihab Nye's poem "Bees Were Better" (2008). To read that poem in its entirety, click here.

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