The O'ther - Poetry

By Khalil Sima'an



These journals have first publication rights, subsequent publication should reference the first publication journal


Published poems

Self-Made Pride in Withstanding Erasure  Diode Poetry Journal, 18th anniverary issue, March 2025

We Shall Arrive Once We Return Diode Poetry Journal, 18th anniverary issue, March 2025 

Reading in the Dregs of Forced Displacement   Anmly Literary Journal, 15 April 2024; Nominated for Best of the Net 2025

Against Oblivion  like a field Poetry Journal, 26 January, 2025 

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

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

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

Exile Blues  The Rising Phoenix Review,  16 July 2024

Streets with Foreign Names "Letters to the Holy Land", November 2024

Walking through Walls   The Rising Phoenix Review, 8 July 2024

Happiness, Redefined Carelessly  Solstice Literary Magazine, 15 April 2024

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

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

My Crime  Fikra Magazine, articles 179, 21 March 2024

Enough Time for a Ritual  The Palestine Chronicle, May 2022

After the Siege  Clarion Poetry Magazine,  Clarion #3, January 2025


To be published soon



Older chapters under re-construction


A sample of poems by Khalil Sima'an

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