Poetry

“slip of light” in Nimrod

“Tell the Ocean” in clade song

“All the women in your dreams look like me,” in About Place: Works of Resistance, Resilience

Ravi Coltrane Steps Out of His Father’s Shadow with Pharoah Sanders by His Side,” in About Place: Works of Resistance, Resilience

"Ballad for the Bird Children of Bequaa” in About Place: Works of Resistance, Resilience

“Terrorist," “Sitti Teaches Me Arabic as Pastry,” “To kill a poet first you must destroy the world” in About Place: Geographies of Justice

In My Arms, You’ll Feather” in About Place

“Brethren” in Flock Literary Journal & EAT’s This is Yours: Twelve Lullabies album

“How We Might Pray” in Rise Up Review

“My Daughter Discovers Synchronicity” in VoiceCatcher

"sacrifice," "Raw Umber," "Burnt Umber," "If you must, choose wings" in Hawai'i Review as audio and print

"Cerulean" in B O D Y

"Folklore I," "Folklore II," "Into Fire," and "Rubbing Symmetry" in FRiGG

“Tiny, Tiny” and “Alight Before the Sirens” in clade song

"Long Island Railroad from Jamaica, 1985," "Into Wind," "Into Snow," "Into Splinters," and "Curvature of the Body" in Columbia Journal

"Refusal," text and spoken, in Cordella

Essays

“Given Earth, Given Water” in River Teeth

“Repair,” in Poetry Northwest

“7 Books of Poetry by Arab American Women” in Electric Literature

“Two Essays” in Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets (Black Lawrence Press, 2020)

“Alice Notley Tribute” in our many gendered mothers

"A Profile of Laura Sims" in Literary Mama

"Slowly, I Rise," essay in Thousand Bites of Bread

Leave the Dishes: Making Art While Raising Children column for VoiceCatcher: "Start Making Art Again;" "A Holiday Gift to You: Writing and Visual Artist Residencies for Parents (Part I);” "A New Year's Gift to You: Writing and Visual Artist Residencies for Parents (Part II);” "Reclaim Artistic Space Through Memorization;” "It May Be Worth It: Four Mother-Writers Share What Has Worked for Them;" and "You Are Not Alone: Resources for Cultivating the Mother-Artist Life." 

Reviews

Review of Fludde by Peter Mishler in The Rupture (formerly The Collagist)

Review/Feature of Bruising Continents by Christopher Luna in Rain Taxi

Review of Bruising Continents by Katharine Coldiron in Anomaly

Review of Bruising Continents in haiku by Carolyn Martin in Flock

Interviews

Tiel Ansari interviews me on Wider Window, KBOO radio

“Privilege, Politics, and Cultural Experience” with Claudia F. Saleeby Savage, Kimberly Johnson, Shayla Lawson, and moderator Jenny Forrester, Willamette Writers Conference 2020

“More Than Survival—a Conversation with Dao Strom” for About Place: Practices of Hope

Barbara LaMorticella interviews me on her show Talking Earth, KBOO radio.

Lisa Birman interviews me in Queen Mob's Teahouse

Rob Mclennan’s 12 or 20 questions interview series of me.

Judith Arcana interviews me on Poetry and Everything, KBOO radio

Anne Rasmussen interviews me for Late Night Library

Interview of the poet Laura Sims about Staying Alive (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016) for BOMB Magazine. 

Interview of the poet Mary Hickman about her book, This is the Homeland, for Late Night Library.

Interview of the literary fiction writer Rachel Weaver for Bookslut.

Interview, "In the Company of Lions," of the memoirist and Pacific Crest Trail thru-hiker Gail Storey for the captivating Cordella.

Witness the Hour: Conversations with Arab-American Poets Across the Diaspora series for Anamoly (formerly Drunken Boat): Lauren Camp: July 2016 interview, Kaveh Akbar: October 2016 interview, Mohja Kahf: March 2017 interview, and Hala Alyan: June 2018 interview.