RAWI.org Featured Writer for May 2010 “Raoucheh,” “Narguileh,"
“Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis,” “Salawat,” “Tea at Chez Paul’s,” “Lost and Found.”
MuseumViews “Goya Dining at ‘La quinta del sordo.’”“The Artist as Voyeur,” “What the Painter Hears,” “Before the Storm,” “Mona Lisa, “Mother’s Amber Daum,” “At Ninety, She Had Never Been Hospitalized Before” (Forthcoming weekly, May& June 2010)
California Quarterly “Lost Steps” (Forthcoming 2010).
Conversation International Poetry Project: Melancholy and Memory
Söilesí Üç Aylik Suur Dergisi “Nargile” Turkish translation of “Narguileh” (first in Curbside 2004) (2010)
Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts "Open Air Cinema in Heliopolis"(2010)
The New York Quarterly "Once Upon the Time, in Prague, a Word"
Forthcoming (2010)
Parting Gifts: Qedeshim Qedeshot (Forthcoming 2010).
"Reading the Future inTurkish Coffee," "Série Noire," "12 Rushdy Street," "Valentine's Day," "Drawing in a Cornfield," "The Double Harp," "Song of
an Egyptian Woman Advising"
Encore "Blue Heron" (2009) (First in Come Together: Imagine Peace 2008)
Poet Lore "First Bra" (2009)
The Kerf "No Man's Land" (2009)
Poetic Voices Without Borders Vol2 Gival Press, Robert Giron, ed. (2009):
"El sol también tiene su lado oscuro," (first in Explicación de Textos Literarios 2002-2003)
"Contrapunto," "Adagio por una viola d'amore olvidada," (first in Letras Femeninas 2007)
"Mapas" (first in Hofstra Hispanic Review 2007)
"Niagara," (first in Chimères 1986)
"Filles du feu," ( first in Entre Nous 1991)
"Aquarelle," "La vieille femme," "Délire," "Chute libre," "Le café turc"
Cider Press Review " From 'The Infinite, an Anise Seed and I'" Translated from Andrés Avelino " De "Lo infinito, un grano de anís y yo " ( 2009)
Come Together: Imagine Peace ed. by Philip Metres, Ann Smith and Larry
Smith Harmony Series, Bottom Dog Press "Blue Heron" (2008)
The New York Quarterly "I Believed Everything They Said" (2008)
Encore "Bricolage" (2008), (first in Grafemas 2007)
Explicación de Textos Literarios "Érase una vez en Praga, una palabra,"
"Trazos" (2008)
Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry Ed. Hayan Charara (2008). "Even the Sun has its Dark Side," "Milkweed," (Sulphur River Review 1997) "Tea at Chez Paul's" (Nimrod 2003)
Hofstra Hispanic Journal "Mapas" (2007)
Grafemas: Letras Femeninas AILCFH Premio Victoria Urbano (2007)
Contest Winners:
"Mascarade" "Bricolage" "Simulacra" "Unborn" "Evening Walk"
Arab American Writers and Diaspora Literature ed. Nathalie Handal (Forthcoming 2009).
"The White Brass Bed" (first in Negative Capability 1990)
"Salawat" (first in Parting Gifts 1996) "Narguileh" (first in Curbside
Review 2004)
Letras Femeninas "Contrapunto" "Adagio por una viola d'amore olvidada"
(2007)
Sulphur River Review "Counterpoint" "Snapshots" (2007)
Parting Gifts "Your Name was Only Mary,"
"Predictions," "Music of the Stone," "Waves,"A
Fugue to the Waxing Moon," "In the Shadow of Words," "In
the Palm of Her Hand," "Cold Light Over Still
Pond," "A Dream,
Uncovered" (2006)
Mizna Literary Journal "To Amal," "Raoucheh" (2006)
Nimrod/The Healing Arts "Lost and Found" (2006)
Puerto del Sol "Is There Such a Thing?
(2006)
Explicación de Textos Literarios Premio Spanish Press (2005)
Finalists: "El sol también tiene su lado oscuro," "Bajo pinceladas"
Poet Lore "Mobilus in Mobili" (2005)
Margin "Broken Vision" (2005)
Curbside Review "Narguileh" (2004)
Puerto del Sol "How the Song Turns into
a Legend," "Untold Tale(s) of "Unfinished Tapestry" (2004)
Sulphur River Literary Review "After Gian
Lorenzo Bernini," "Under the
Crescent Moon" (2004)
Nimrod International Journal: Awards 25 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda
Prize (2003)
Finalist: "Tea at Chez Paul's,"
Puerto del Sol "Missing Words," "Waiting
in a Field of Melted Honey" (2003)
Concho River Review "Selling the House" (2003)
Parting Gifts "A Seaside Café, My First
Taste of Fresh Oysters," "The Road to Tyre," "The
Wheel," "Vision" (2002)
Fresh Ground "It was later on I learned
it was harmless" (2001)
Alternatebridges "Transience" (2000)
Black Buzzard Press "The Bullfrog" (2000)
Sulphur River Literary Review "A Writer's
File" "The Way a Flock of Birds Improvise" (2000)
Mizna Literary Journal "Raoucheh" (2006)
Finalist: Pirate's Alley's Faulkner's Prize (1999)
Parting Gifts "Lovers," "Exorcism," "Antlers," "Bloodshed" (1998)
Sulphur River Literary Review "Chiaroscuro," "Milkweed" (1997)
Parting Gifts "Salawat" (1996)
Dream International Quarterly "Merman" (1996)
Voices International "Anachronic Growth," "Inverted Motion" (1995, 1996)
Negative Capability Eve of St Agnes Award (1994)
Finalist: "A Glimpse of Fall"
Linden Lane Magazine English Poetry Prize (1994)
First Prize: "Encounters," "Vanishing
Shadow," "I Haven't Written a
Poem in a Long Time"
Negative Capability Eve of St Agnes Award (1993)
Finalist: "To Henriette, My Mother"
Negative Capability Eve of St Agnes Award (1992)
"That Day in Heliopolis"
Entre Nous "Filles du Feu" (1991)
Alternatebridges.com "Transience" "Raindrops" (1990)
Negative Capability Eve of St Agnes Award (1990)
Finalists: "Reflections," "The
White Brass Bed," "Tea in Heliopolis"
Linden Lane Magazine English Poetry Prize (1989)
Third Place: "Waiting for Marie"
Linden Lane Magazine English Poetry Prize (1987)
Finalists: "Dive," "Immured"
Intuitions "The Gust," "Watching Us Go" (1987)
Chimères "Effets du temps," "Niagara" (1986)
Journal Français d'Amérique Concours de poèmes de Noêl (1985)
Second Place: "Al Milad"
Crab Orchard Review Series in Poetry Open Competition (2010)
Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."
Many Mountains Moving Press Book Contest (2009)
Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript “Tea in Heliopolis.”
University of Wisconsin Press Contest Brittingham and Pollak (2009)
Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."
Crab Orchard Review Series in Poetry First Book Award (2009)
Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."
Patricia Bibby First Book Award (2009)
Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."
Crab Orchard Review Series in Poetry Open Competition (2009)
Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."
C&R Press Open Series Poetry Competition (2008)
Honorable Mention: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."
University of Wisconsin Press Contest (2008)
Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."
Zone 3 First Book Award (2007)
Semi-Finalist: Poetry manuscript "Tea in Heliopolis."
Letras Femeninas AILCFH Premio Victoria Urbano (2007)
Contest Winner: "Mascarade," "Bricolage," "Simulacra," "Unborn,"
"Evening Walk."
Explicación de Textos Literarios Premio Spanish Press (2005)
Finalists: "Bajo pinceladas," "El sol también tiene su lado oscuro," "Contrapunto."
Nimrod /Hardman Award, Pablo Neruda Prize (2003)
Finalists: "Tea at Chez Paul's," "Untold Tale(s) of Unfinished Tapestry,"
"Narguileh," "I had Never Seen a Dead Man Before," "Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis," "A Triptych, Unraveled."
Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize (1999)
Finalist: " Raoucheh "
Linden Lane Magazine's English Poetry Prize (1994)
First Prize: "Encounters," "Vanishing Shadow," "I Haven't Written a Poem in a Long Time."
Negative Capability 's Eve of St. Agnes Award (1994)
Finalist: "A Glimpse of Fall."
Negative Capability 's Eve of St. Agnes Award (1993)
Finalist: "To Henriette."
Negative Capability 's Eve of St. Agnes Award (1992)
Finalist: "That Day in Heliopolis."
Robert Writing Awards (1990)
Finalists: "Transience," "The Communion."
Negative Capability 's Eve of St. Agnes Award (1989)
Finalists: "Tea at Heliopolis," "The White Brass Bed," "Camera Lucida" (former title "Reflections")
Linden Lane Magazine 's English Poetry Prize (1989)
Third Prize: "Waiting for Marie."
Linden Lane Magazine' s English Poetry Prize (1987)
Finalist: "Immured," "Dive."
Journal Français d'Amérique. Concours de Poèmes de Noël (1986)
Second Place: "Al Milad."
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