Forthcoming
Recent Publications
- We Call to the Eye & Night - an Anthology of Arab Love Poems: 2 poems (Persea Books, 2022)
- The Seagull Book of Poems, 5th Edition: "TAKING BACK JERUSALEM" (W.W. Norton, 2022)
- Poetry London: "Field Notes on Terror & Beginnings" (Spring 2023)
- Guernica: "Instead of Ekphrasis" (2023)
- International Poetry Review: TBA
- My Soul Has Grown Deep - The Watering Hole Anthology: "ars poetica with parallel dimensions" (TBA, Muddy Ford Press)
Poetry Print Publications
- Infinite Constellations: Speculating Us Anthology: 3 poems (FC2 - University of Alabama Press, 2023)
- Between Paradise & Earth: Eve poems: "Searching for a Palestinian Necropastoral (Eve)" (Orison Books, 2023)
- Poetry Magazine (The Poetry Foundation): "Let Him Rest" (February 2023)
- Foglifter: "Realisms" and "An American Surrealism" (Fall 2022 Vol 7 Issue 2, Pushcart Nominee)
- Indiana Review: "PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: PANDEMONIUM" (Summer 2022)
- Mizna: "Defenestration Fantasy (collapsing sestina)" (The Experimental Issue, Fall 2021)
- The Chicago Reader : "Autobiography of Spring" (October 2021)
- World Literature Today: "TAKING BACK JERUSALEM" (Palestine Issue, Summer 2021)
- The Baffler: "Autobiography of." and "before he was their great poet.." (November 2020, Issue 54)
- The Journal: 3 poems (Fall 2020, Issue 44.3)
- The Harvard Advocate: Excerpt from Birthright (Migration Issue, 2020)
- West Branch: "Into the lines of kuffiyat, we stitch our generations (Cento)" and "The Ghosts of the Exhibit are Screaming (Palinode)" (Spring 2020, Issue 93)
- Ambit Magazine: "Letter to be Reflected into the Shores of Tel Aviv" (Issue 239, January 2020)
- The Massachusetts Review: "from Adaptation Portraits (strange cartographies)" (Fall 2019, Vol 60 Issue 4)
- jubilat: "Ekphrasis on Mirror Skylines" and "incomplete confessions of wind" (Fall 2019)
- F(r)iction: "Generation" (November 2019, Issue 14 - The Survival Issue)
- Mizna: "ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine," and "conjugations of surveillance" (Winter 2019, Volume 19.2 - the Palestine Issue)
- The Asian American Literary Review: "Cartographies of Light" (Spring 2019)
- The American Poetry Review: "alternate mythologies of rage & exile" (July 2019)
- The Cosmonauts Avenue Anthology: "Against Consolidation" (Spring 2019)
- Beloit Poetry Journal: "the ghost of the dead sea rewrites the history of drowning" (Summmer 2018)
- Washington Square Review: "maqam of moonlight, for the children of exile" (Fall 2018)
- Stoked Words - a Capturing Fire Slam Anthology : "Elegy for my Dead Country" and "Index" (Summer 2018, Capturing Fire Press)
- Nepantla Anthology : from "Inheritance" (April 2018, Nightboat Books)
- Puerto del Sol : "In which the specimen attempts to define an algebraic structure for his inherited traumas," and "Ode to the Rhopilema Nomadica Jellyfish" (Science Issue, Spring 2018; Best New Poets Nominee)
- Mizna : "Index for the damned," "Lexicon" (Winter 2018)
- Bettering American Poetry 2016 : "Inheritance" (January 2018)
- Hawai'i Review : "origin of prayer," "elegy for my dead country," and "Birthright" (Issue 87, Winter 2017)
- Five:2:One Magazine : "demon-possessed specimen hypothetically comes out to his Father" (Issue 17, September 2017)
- Dawn with Arms of Roses Anthology : "someday i'll love george abraham," "ode to my swollen, mono-infected spleen" (Gal Pals Present, September 2017)
- Best of Crab Fat - Year 3 : "someday i'll love george abraham" (Damaged Goods Press, July 2017)
- Emerge Literary Journal : "photographs not taken" (2016 Issue, Pushcart Nomination)
- Assaracus (Sibling Rivalry Press) : "meditations as queer jesus," "ode to my multiple orgasms," "the Burning Abyss speaks back," "demon-possessed poet attempts self-exorcism" (November 2016, Issue 25)
- APIARY : "Axiom" (July 2016, Issue 8 - Soft Targets)
Poetry Online Publications
- Cue Foundation (الفكرة ذكرى): excerpt from "When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America" (exhibit catalog commission, May 2023)
- The Margins (AAWW): "Love Letter to the Eve of the End of the World" (The Climate Notebook, March 2023)
- Poetry Magazine (The Poetry Foundation): "Let Him Rest" (February 2023)
- Rusted Radishes: "Of Nation" (The Money Issue, 2022)
- Poem-A-Day (Academy of American Poets): "Unarcheology of Father" (November 2022)
- Catapult: "GET FUCKED & DIE! Poetica" (August 2022)
- Grist: A Journal of Literary Arts: "(yikes!) Poetica" (Spring 2022)
- FIYAH Magazine (Palestine Issue): from "UNIVERSAL THEORY IN WHICH EVERY FAILED ATTEMPT AT LOVE IS A SOULMATE FROM ANOTHER TIMELINE" (December 2021)
- The Chicago Reader : "Autobiography of Spring" (October 2021)
- MOSAIC Theatre Company: "Stage Directions for a Representation wherein Eve and Adam travel through their first checkpoint" (Constellations Series Response to Dalia Taha's Keffiyeh Made in China, July 2021)
- Poem-A-Day (The Academy of American Poets): "Searching for a Palestinian Necropastoral (Eve)" (July 2021)
- The Nation : "Searching for a Palestinian After" (May 2021, named one of Entropy Magazine's Favorite Poems of 2020-2021)
- World Literature Today: "TAKING BACK JERUSALEM" (Palestine Issue, Summer 2021)
- Michigan Quarterly Review (Mixtape): "On Ekphrasis and Revision" and from "UNIVERSAL THEORY..." (March 2021)
- Underblong Journal: "well... *grabs wine glass* when the world ends, i hope we go down dancing ahha!" (December 2020, Issue 5)
- The Baffler: "Autobiography of." and "before he was their great poet..." (November 2020, Issue 54)
- Split this Rock : "Ode to Mennel Ibtissam Singing Hallelujah on the Voice (France) in Arabic" (October 2020)
- Catapult: "the faggotry" (October 2020)
- The Margins (AAWW): Broken Ghazal, Before Balfour & ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine (September 2020, Unfreedoms Series)
- BOAAT: from "Adaptation Portraits (strange cartographies)" (Summer 2020)
- Great River Review: "Triptych with Varying Degrees of Certainty, Posed as an Interrupted Sestina" (May 2020)
- Poetry Daily: "Heritage" (April 2020)
- Jewish Currents: "Before Apocalypse" (March 2020)
- Mass Poetry : "ars poetica with parallel dimensions" (Poem of the Moment, February 2020)
- The Missouri Review: "To All The Ghosts I've Loved Before" (February 2020)
- Cordite Poetry Review: " p lo y" (Winter 2019)
- PoetryNow (The Poetry Foundation): "Ekphrasis with Toothing Chainsaw in Unnamed Halhul Vineyard" (November 2019 - poem text)
- The Quarry (Split This Rock): "the ghosts of the dead sea rewrite the history of drowning" (July 2019)
- Poem-A-Day from The Academy of American Poets: "Essay on Submission" (January 2019)
- Scalawag: "elegy for Home in mirrored graves, ending in a collapse of wings" (Winter 2019)
- The Shallow Ends: "ars poetica with waning memory" (December 2018)
- The Scores: "against perturbation" (Arab American Issue, Winter 2018)
- Glass: A Journal of Poetry: "Errata with Divine Sacrifice" (November 2018, Midterm Issue; Pushcart Prize Nominee)
- Cosmonauts Avenue: "Against Consolidation" (October 2018)
- LitHub : "I forgot, like you, to die: 12 Palestinian Authors Respond to the Ongoing Nakba" (Co-editor & Contributor, May 2018 - poem: ars poetica with parallel dimensions // full folio)
- Maps for Teeth : "Nakba: 70 Years of Palestinian Resistance to Occupation" (Co-editor, May 2018)
- the Rumpus : "maqam of moonlight, for the wandering," and "on unraveling" (April 2018)
- Nashville Review : "portrait of reality, in fragments" (April 2018)
- Tinderbox Poetry Journal : "Haifa Love Letters from a Palestinian Exile" (January 2018; Best of the net Nominee)
- Hawai'i Review : "Birthright" (Issue 87, Winter 2017)
- Anomalous Press (FKA Drunken Boat) : "Video Loop: Tel Aviv Airport panic attack," "Infinite: a history of parallel bodies" (November 2017)
- Tin House : "apology" (Broadside 30, October 2017)
- wildness (Platypus Press) : "summer is the worst time to lose a country" (Issue 10, October 2017)
- the Blueshift Journal : "[counter/terrorism]" (Issue 8, September 2017)
- the Shade Journal (75 Days of Emerging QPOC Writers project): "symposium for the body" (Spotlight Issue: Seed, August 2017)
- Vinyl : "self-portrait with second degree sunburn" (July 2017)
- Kweli : "binary." (June 2017)
- Drunk in a Midnight Choir : "origin story of my depression" (May 2017, Issue 1)
- Sukoon: Untitled, "not a poem about Death," "photographs not taken" (March 2017)
- Winter Tangerine : "song of ash, ending in ghazal refusing amnesia" (January 2017, Lineage of Mirrors)
- Diode : "self-portrait as melting clock," "a History of Depression in Erasure" (January 2017, Pushcart Nomination)
- NSJP Newsletter: "photographs not taken" (January 2017, Issue 1)
- Maps for Teeth : "vs. Real" (January 2017, Issue 4; Best of the Net Nomination)
- Apogee: "Inheritance" (December 2016, #NoDAPL Portfolio)
- the Margins (Asian American Writer's Workshop) : "[conflict/occupation]" (November 2016, Best of the Net Nomination)
- Pnk Prl : "a History of Palestine in Erasure" (November 2016)
- the Shade Journal : "vs. imaginary," "in which you are the emptiness they made of you" (October 2016)
- Yellow Chair Review : "metaphors for the body in surrender," "self-portrait as sunken cathedral," and "alternate names for my future daughter" (September 2016)
- Crab Fat Magazine : "the Olive tree speaks to my body on deforestation," "haikus on love & resistance," "someday i'll love george abraham" (September 2016, Pushcart Nomination)
- Thrush : "Tanka as Firework" (September 2016)
- Riwayya : "Palestinian Mass" (September 2016)
- Black Napkin Press: "metaphors for my body after survival," "when the piano is the only thing that talks back," "how to disappear," and Untitled (September 2016)
- Brooklyn Poets : "ode to my swollen, mono-infected spleen" (August 2016)
- Swarthmore College Intercultural Center Zine : "instructions for building revolutions" (May 2016)
- the Philadelphia Book Review : "Reality" (April 2015 - this publication was part of a political poetry project which was not archived)
Prose Print Publications: Essays, Stories, Collaborations, etc
- Beyond Memory: an Anthology of Arab American Creative Nonfiction : "in which you do not ask the state of israel to commit suicide" (Spring 2020, University of Arkansas Press)
- Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction (Aforementioned Press): "origin story, to be written on the walls of my childhood home in blood" (Spring 2019)
Prose Online Publications: Essays, Stories, Collaborations, etc
- The Margins (AAWW): "After,word" (The Love Letters Folio, May 2023)
- Mondoweiss: Celebrating Poetry of the People: an interview with Mohammed El-Kurd (November 2021)
- them: The Im/Possibility of Being a Queer Palestinian in America (Condé Nast, October 2021)
- Guernica Magazine: "Teaching Poetry in a Palestinian Apocalypse" (September 2021)
- The Harvard Crimson:"How Can Harvard and the STEM Community Stand with Palestinians?" (co-authored with Laith Alhussein)
- Divedapper: Interview with George Abraham and Craig Santos Perez (Bradley Trumpfheller, July 2021)
- Public Books: "Re-embodying Palestinian Memory" - on literary representations of Palestine & Palestinian Diaspora (Winter 2020)
- The Los Angeles Review of Books: To Remember, Read, & Return - A Conversation with George Abraham and Omar Sakr (June 2020)
- Vagabond City Lit: Interview on Birthright with Michelle Betters (May 2020)
- Poets & Writers Magazine: Writers Recommend Essay by George Abraham (April 2020)
- LitHub: "Against Consumption: Palestine in the american Imagination" (March 2020)
- The Paris Review: "Imagining a Free Palestine: an Ekphrasis on a Fragmented Nationalism" (Fall 2018, Online)
- Boston Review : "Cartographies of Wind" (May 2018 - part of Dispatches from the Land of Erasure series)
- Apogee : "in which you do not ask the state of israel to commit suicide" (January 2018; Best of the Net Nominee)
- Winter Tangerine : "Lineage of Mirrors Essay on song of ash, ending in ghazal refusing amnesia" (January 2017, Lineage of Mirrors)