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qtine thoughts (w/a line from Psych lol)   december 2020, northwest review

 

METADATA            february 2020, underblong

 

for the kids i keep seeing in my dreams

in my dreams i read arabic fast                            tinderbox poetry journal, may 2020

 

"california in the summer & my hair is growing long"

gray area                                                               homology lit, january 2020

wet                                                                     

 

a girl and her (robot) dog (essay)                             input mag, january 2020     

 

poem on the day some guy grabbed my ass                    the margins, january 2020

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luv poem 3 (with lines from jack's mannequin & lauryn hill)      glass poetry press, january 2020

 

luv poem 2 (while listening to lady lamb)      cordite poetry review, december 2019

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the prefix mar means sea

icarus puts on her make-up                         the rumpus, november 2019

 

INTERVIEW: Writers Talking About Anything But Writing - Dreams, Tarot, TV      f(r)iction, august 2019

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in another dimension i am a good daughter            paper darts, july 2019 (order | read)

(listed at mille, too)

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POET IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Mass Poetry                     july 2019

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INTERVIEW: Unootha                   may 2019​

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INTERVIEW: Why We Write Podcast - "Chasing poetry"      march 2019

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INTERVIEW: VIDA                                            february 2019

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For the spring semester & for hannah rego         cotton xenomorph, february 2019

                                                                     review: frontier poetry, march 2019

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AT BEITEDDINE, SUMMER 2018                       vagabond city, january 2019

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journal fragments (after ocean vuong)              cosmonauts avenue, december 2018

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can you be arab without following every trail of smoke        the scores, november 2018​

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BOOK REVIEW on Liminoid Magazine                          november 2018​

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true things

      +

everything my mother told me not to do

      +

wardeh w zahrah

      +

no one in my family writes down recipes

                                                  aperçus, september 2018

                                                                     + interview

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on profanity & arab-american girlhood     bird's thumb, february 2018

                                                                     + interview

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IF A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST AND

I BLOCK YOUR NUMBER DO I GIVE A SHIT

                                   +                                     big lucks, january 2018

note on phosphenes 

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origin story                             sukoon, january 2018

notepad fragments (after o.v.)

on practicing my arabic                       sukoon, january 2018

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i'm told that depression is an american thing like owning a dog or talking about your feelings    the shallow ends, november 2017

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i need everything to be meaningful

at all times or i can’t get out of bed

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in which the goatfish moon does not feel sorry for me        hobart pulp, november 2017

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where are my spoons

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it doesn't have a name    crab fat magazine, september 2017

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traveling alone     (finalist for Real Good Poem prize)       rabbit catastrophe, summer 2017

                                                                                       + reviewed on the Wilds

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aphorisms for lonely arabs      mizna: surviving, july 2017

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where are we headed         the margins, may 2017

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There is a country to be built:

a conversation between Jess Rizkallah & Carol N. Fadda      Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2017

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i haven't forgotten

give me the flute & sing              sukoon, april 2017

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there is so much love and leaving in minimum wage          beech street review, spring 2017

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WRITER OF THE WEEK: maudlin house, december 2016

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T.S. ELIOT IN THE TIME OF TRASHFIRE        Rattle, October 2016

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i am but i'm not

prodigal daughter

#NOTALLDOGS                  HEArt Online, november 2016

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for the angry arabs who won't let anyone catch them crying                 essay, button poetry, august 2016

 

every time i remember my bullies mama worries i'm still not over it      jaffat el aqlam, september 2016

 

my other mouth​

HOW TO SAVE TIME AND DIGNTY AND GET

THE SAME RESULTS AS FALLING IN LOVE

WITHOUT ACTUALLY HAVING TO FALL IN LOVE

one of these days here’s what i’ll do:                       Inferior Planets, issue 2
 

deir al qamar means convent of the moon & it's all i think about

V.

the daylight is equal parts funeral procession and parade              Wyvern Lit, Spring 2016

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Lyric Essay for Beirut, NAILED Magazine 11/23/2015

 

   punk ass strawberries

   WORKING FRIDAY NIGHTS IN HARVARD SQ,

   the summer i keep yelling,                          Alien Mouth, Oct. 2015

 

Three poems printed in Welcome To The New Hallelujah, 2015

 

blood honey, Words Dance 9/29/2015

 

DISCOVERING ASTARTE IN A PUNCHLINE FROM A WHITE MAN'S MOUTH, The Qahwa Project, 7/1/2015

 

They call me Thunder Thighs, Voicemail Poems, 1/15/2015

 

bop bop, Ant vs. Whale, 5/15/2015

 

mama told me these things (RE: SKIN), NAILED Magazine, 5/25/2015

 

Sin el Fil, Lebanon - Drunk in a Midnight Choir, 4/10/2015*

          *Pushcart Prize Nominated

 

staple this to my dental records, Word Riot, 9/15/2014

 

Beverly Sky & Mario Kon: Narrative / Non-narrative       Artscope, 11/25/2014

 

   Saturn's Return

   Answering your alarm clock

   WELL, COME HOME                   Electric Cereal, 10/19/2014

 

   if teta never had to leave lebanon would she make preserves

   Sometimes I Feel Like My Own Life Would Never Pass The Bechdel Test

   You Got Way Too Excited About Annihilation Before The Cosmic Folk Show

                                                  Drunk in a Midnight Choir, 10/21/2014

 

Abrupt Banjo Stubs Its Toe On a Stack of Love Letters, Oddball Magaine, 10/1/2014

 

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