Poetry is a Country: Naomi Shihab Nye on Max Beckmann’s Falling Man @NationalGalleryofArtTalks
Poetry is a Country: Naomi Shihab Nye on Max Beckmann’s Falling Man @NationalGalleryofArtTalks
Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
As part of our “Poetry is a country” festival the National Gallery of Art's Wilmerding Symposium invited celebrated American poets to compose something new inspired by art in our collection. Naomi Shihab Nye, essayist, educator, and professor of creative writing at Texas State University, responds to Max Beckmann’s "Falling Man."

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"Poetry is a Country": Naomi Shihab Nye on Max Beckmann’s "Falling Man"

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