Newest Poems

The Atlantic: “Reasons to Live”
32Poems: “Hunger”
Poetry Northwest: “Mother Of [Paintbrushes]”
Kenyon Review: “All the Oranges of Tripoli”
Prairie Schooner: “Where Is Yazbek?” and “Island of Rabbits”
Sugar House Review: “Mother Of [an ascending thoracic]”
The Believer: “We don’t talk about children until we do”
VIDA Review: “Origin” and “Men Compliment Me”
Poetry Magazine: “The Years of Water & Light”
The Spectacle: “Learning Arabic” and “After the Argument”
Cordite Poetry Review: “Years We Lived Close to the Bone”
Wildness: “Moral Inventory”
Pleiades: “Catalog of the Inalienable”
Poem-a-Day: “In the gloaming, in the roiling night”
The Journal: “The one where I beg” (Pushcart nominated, 2018)
The Shallow Ends: “Everything will hurt for a while”
The Rumpus: “Amor Fati” and “Guns Won't Feed You, But Hold Out Your Hands”

Archives

The Adroit Journal: “Gulls” and “Legend of Mount Sannine”
ANTI-: “Love like Sampson’s Lion While My Mother Shaves My Father’s Head”
Atticus Review: “My Father Dreams of a New Country,” “Driftwood,” “Elevator,” “Lebanese Famine in America,” and “The Only Car on the Highway Back to Tripoli”
BOAAT Journal : “Bassam”
CALYX Journal: “A Name for the Year’s Longest Night: My Father’s Grade-School Crush among the Maronite Militia”
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact: “I'd Always Told You Your Father Was the Most Beautiful Man in the World,” “Flotsam,” “Inventory of Things Left Behind,” “On the Night You Ask for a Divorce,” “Phillumeny after the Separation,” and “The Hypothetical Return”
Copper Nickel: “Kata Doksa,” winner of the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest judged by Kevin Prufer and nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize
Crab Orchard Review: “Homegrown,” nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize
Day One: “Interview with My Father: Maps”
Diode Poetry Journal: “A Mother's Love Has Windows” and “Shame, Abridged”
Drunken Boat: “My Father in Virginia, Surrounded by Water”
Epiphany: “Interview with My Father: Names”
Glass Poetry: "The Sleepwalker"
Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal: “Chimera”
Juxtaprose: “The Mounts” and “Taillights”
KYSO Flash: “Ablution” and “Tracers,” nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize
The Missouri Review Poem of the Week: “Surat al-Qiyamah: My Father Talks to God When Syria Occupies Tripoli, 1976”
Nashville Review: “The Lights Shut Off in the City of Ghosts”
New Republic: “Karantina Massacre”
Nightjar Review: “My Father Keeps the Pack Together,” nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize
One: “Nocturne with Teeth” and "If there were a heaven, we'd be asked to leave"
Ovenbird Poetry: “Battle of the Hotels” and “The Cedars: Beatitudes”
Pittsburgh Poetry Review: “After” and “On the Unexploded Cluster Bombs in Southern Lebanon,” which was nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize
RHINO Poetry: “Winter Prayer”
Sidereal Magazine: “Hunt,” “Sabra and Shatila Massacre,” “Town Gossip,” and “The Keeper of Allah's Hidden Names”
Sixth Finch: “My Father Is the Sea, the Field, the Stone”
Southern Indiana Review: “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion,” “August,” and “The Dead Walk Over Your Land”
THEthe Poetry Blog: “Lessons in Grief”
Vinyl Poetry: “Bride of the South” and “The Green Line”

"Be good to me like a summer rain, I swear I'm burning."

– My Father Dreams of a New Country

"I am the dog tied to its moon
/ and here to tell you love is unkind."

– Nocturne with Teeth

"I've never known / a world that wasn't worth dying for."

– My Father Is the Sea, the Field, the Stone

New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (Red Hen Press, 2021): “The Keeper of Allah’s Hidden Names”

Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020): “Town Gossip”

What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2020): “My Father Dreams of a New Country”

The Columbus Anthology (Trillium, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, 2020): “The Dead Walk Over Your Land,” “Inventory of What Remains,” and “Taillights”

Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees (Interlink Books, 2019): “My Father Is the Sea, the Field, the Stone”

The Orison Anthology, Vol. 3 (Orison Books, 2019): “The Keeper of Allah’s Hidden Names”

Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 (Bettering Books, 2017): “My Father Is the Sea, the Field, the Stone”

The Hundred Years' War: Modern War Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2014): “Interviews with My Father: Those Times”

New Poetry from the Midwest 2014 (New American Press, 2015): “Love Like Samson's Lion While My Mother Shaves My Father's Head,” winner of the Heartland Poetry Prize judged by Lee Ann Roripaugh

Poets on Growth (Math Paper Press, 2015): “Love Like Samson's Lion While My Mother Shaves My Father's Head,” “Sabra and Shatila Massacre,” “A Mother’s Love Has Windows,” “Surat al-Qiyamah: My Father Talks to God When Syria Occupies Tripoli, 1976,” and “My Father In Virginia, Surrounded By Water”

Bettering American Poetry Vol. 2 (Bettering Books, 2017): “My Father Is the Sea, the Field, the Stone”

Sweet: A Literary Confection: "In the Skin"

Agape Editions Blog, August 2016: "What You Love Will Haunt You: A Review of Amie Whittemore’s Glass Harvest"

Agape Editions Blog, May 2016: "The Light Isn’t Coming Back: A Review of At Night by Lisa Ciccarello"