publications

 

Please enjoy reading my poetry at the links below!

 “The Day Before Moving Day” The Missouri Review 

“Birth Ritual”Southern Indiana Review

“Independence Day”The Journal

“Duplex” The Journal

“Love Poem with Parenthetical”The Georgia Review

“Love Poem with Parenthetical, Shift, & What it means to forget”The Georgia Review (print) 

“Mosque Sheikh Zayed, Abu Dhabi, UAE”Poetry Daily

“The Star”Salt Hill (print)

My Body No Longer”The Offing 

“Love Poem with Dreams and War Stories” Muzzle Magazine

“Love Poem with Forgetting”The Common 

“Read All of Their Names”Meridian

Three PoemsLambda Literary Emerge Anthology (print)

“Self Portrait With & Without”The Massachusetts Review (print)

“Recitation (For Bayan)” DIALOGIST

“On the Porch”Blue Earth Review

“un/folding”Salamander (Print)

“Falling Asleep After You” & “Is that Sappho you’re reading?” The Boiler Journal

"On Thanksgiving my family mourns the empty seat"  — Superstition Review

"The Lucky Ones" BOOTH

"Recitation," "Several Small Lights" and "Halves" — Tinderbox Poetry Journal

"I teach my little sister"The Collapsar

Get in touch

for bookings or collaborations!

I am available for poetry readings/performances, commissioned poems, workshop facilitation, panels/lectures and more. 

 
Dana Alsamsam & Book Editing in New York

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