"Gaza's Sea" in The Dodge, with a brief background essay about the importance of the Mediterranean Sea for Gaza (and for all of Palestine), and Israel's suffocating restrictions on fishing currently and since the blockade that started in 2007 My poem, "Colors for the Diaspora," was rendered as the featured year-end broadside for Hand Papermaking, a beautiful collaboration with the papermaking artist Sanaz Hagani and Palestinian American visual artist Samar Hussaini "Turkey Tail Mushrooms" in Poetry on the Trail "18,000 Children Killed in Gaza" in Beltway Poetry "My love, how will I contact you? حبيبي، كيف بدي أتصل فيك؟" in Vox Populi "Alive in Gaza" in Vox Populi (essay) "Child Amputee" in Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2025 "No Longer" in the blog of The Massachusetts Review "Immortal Sea, Your Sea" in the FUSION issue of Prairie Schooner "Write My Name" in Vox Populi (a poem about Gaza)
Short film (www.youtube.com/watch?v=di3F6tUF4Ww) based on the poem, directed by Aniez Atlas, with Akash Majumder, art and photography, and Gonçal Perales, music
"Finding 'Living room' with My Drone" (poem and essay) in This Unruly Witness: June Jordan's Legacy, 2025 "Immortal Sea, Your Sea," "A Single Sentence," and "Colors for the Diaspora" in Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance, 2025 "Auto Repair Shop" in America's Future: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow, 2025 "The Beech Grove in Autumn," "Mountain Laurel," and "The Nobel Katsura Japonica" in Writing the Land: Horizons, 2025 "Write My Name," in Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader, 2025 "You Could Tell Yourself," "Comet," and "Where My Father Resides" in The Black River: Death Poems, 2024 "Présents Inattendu" (Unexpected Gifts) in Érotiques “Nafas in the Kitchen” in Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, 2023 “Hugging the Tree” and “Far Side of the Moon” in Poetry Society of Virginia Anthology, 2023 "Hugging the Tree" in The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal, 2023 "Historian of Haifa," "Iraqi Refugee Stories: Three Poems for Iraq," and "Dante and the Drum Circle" in Soul Spaces: Poems on Cities, Towns & Villages, 2022 "My Father's Hands" in The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy, 2022 “A Refugee Grows Old,” “A Language for Colors,” “A Grammar for Fleeing,” “To Bring Justice Near: A Poem for Joseph McCoy,” and “Like the Trees in Alexandria” in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia, 2022 “My Father’s Hands” in The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy, 2022 “Seed” in Quilted Poems: An Ekphrastic Collection of Poets and Quilters, 2022 “At the Workshop on Identity and Ethnicity” and “Nafas in the Kitchen” in Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean, 2021 “My Corona Journal” in Tales from Six Feet Apart, 2021 (p. 179) “You Could Tell Yourself” in Poetry Virginia, 2020 “After 93 Years” in Bettering American Poetry, Vol. 3, 2019 “Leaving My Childhood Home” and “Colors for the Diaspora” in Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees, 2019 “Flying” in The Poeming Pigeon: Love Poems, 2017 “Ferguson and Gaza” in Gaza Unsilenced, 2015 “Mercury’s Transit” and “Reclaiming the Oasis” in Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves: Asian American Female Poets Anthology, 2008
Poems in Museum/Gallery Exhibitions and Exhibition Catalogs
“Dante and the Drum Circle” in Art4Us, DC Unsettled, Studio 1469, Washington, DC, March 2022 Press Release “Art in Our Breath” in “Art Is Not Optional” exhibition at Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC, January-February 2020 “Potomac River” in “Speak Your Truth: Black Lives Matter” exhibition at the Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA, October-December, 2020 “Bring the Moon with You,” “Burden on My Shoulders,” and “The Woman Who Carried Her Country over Her Head” in “Qais Al-Sindy 16x20x20" exhibition at Gallery Al-Quds, September 2018 “Crossing the Mediterranean” in “Water/ماء Trespassing Liquid Highways” at Gallery 102, George Washington University, Washington, DC, September-October 2018 “Diving In” in “Peace & Identity” exhibition at JoAnn Rose Gallery, Reston, VA, April 2018
Select Essays
"Alive in Gaza" in Vox Populi, October 10, 2024. Book review of Mosab Abu Toha's poetry collection, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, in The Poetry School blog, June 2024. Book review essay of Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home, edited by Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh, in Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 2023. "Listening to the Voices of Young People From Gaza" in TIME magazine, November 1, 2023 "The Wonder of Words" in Alexandria Times, January 5, 2023 "The Power of Poetry" in Alexandria Times, November 18, 2022 “What Is a Poet Laureate?” in Alexandria Times, June 23, 2022 “Like a Song with Wings: Letter to My Yet-to-Be-Born Grandson” in Voice Male “Eleven Arabic-Language Poets: Muhammad al-Maghout, Saniyya Saleh, Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, Tariq al-Karmi, Khawla Dunia, Widad Nabi, Mohamed Ali Yousfi, Fowziyya Abu- Khalid, Adel Mahmoud, Taleb Abdulazeez, and Essayed Taha” (essay and translations with Sharif Elmusa) in Loch Raven Review(note that the journal nominated one of the poetry translations for a Pushcart Prize that year) "Palestine is always close to my heart even if I'm far away" in Anera's The Olive Press Blog “Palestine Profiles: Poet Fadwa Tuqan” at The Jerusalem Fund website “The Arabic Language: The Glue that Binds the Arab World” in Amideast's Young Voices from the Arab World