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

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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What a poignant sincerity. A confluence of waters, of powers of expression. The living, and the no-longer-so. By means of which, I feel Hope and Acceptance for all I, in my humanity, I may celebrate and endure.
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