The O'ther Poetry

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Published poems:

1. Reading in the Dregs of Forced Displacement   In Anomaly Literary Journal, 15 April 2024. Nominated for Best of the Net 2025 .

2. Wedding in the Time of Genocide  In Muzzle Poetry Magazine, issue 35, Fall 2024.

3. A Visit to a Forcibly Exiled Bride . In Clarion Poetry Magazine, Clarion #2, September 2024.

4. Ritual Recital of an Undocumented History  In The Rising Phoenix Review, 30 July 2024.

5. Exile Blues  In The Rising Phoenix Review,  16 July 2024.

6. Native Streets with Foreign Names - Exile within and without. In poetry collection "Letters to the Holy Land", end of 2024.

7. Walking through Walls   In The Rising Phoenix Review, 8 July 2024. 

8. Happiness, Redefined Carelessly  In Solstice Literary Magazine, 15 April 2024.

9. To the Atlantic God of Carnage  In Fikra Magazine, articles 179, 21 March 2024.  

10. The Cemetery of Conscience  In Fikra Magazine, articles 179, 21 March 2024.

11. My Crime  In Fikra Magazine, articles 179, 21 March 2024.

12. Enough Time for a Ritual  In The Palestine Chronicle, May 2022.

Selected for publication - to appear soon (poems will be made available here soon after publication):

13. After the Siege To appear in Clarion Poetry Magazine,  Clarion #3, Autumn 2024.

Older chapters under re-construction

• Nostalgia and Other Ailments of Exile

• Samples of Inevitable Eruptions

• Shooting Stars

• Trekking and Other Nomadic Habits

A sample of poems by Khalil Sima'an

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