Alise Alousi's poetry has appeared in Three Fold, Mom Egg Review, Four Way Review, and in the anthology We Call to the Eye and the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent, among others. She is a 2019 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and the author of the poetry collection, What to Count, published by Wayne State University Press. She works at InsideOut Literary Arts in Detroit.

Other poems on the web by Alise Alousi:
Five poems
"I Am Not Your Mother"
"Deadline"
"The Ocularist"

Alise Alousi's Website.

About What to Count:

"Alise Alousi writes as an Iraqi American, a Detroiter, a daughter, a mother, and a citizen who refuses to let injustices slide, who is sensitive to the darker passages of our history, who counts people who would otherwise be counted out. She is a poet of witness and solace."
—Edward Hirsch

"As though the ocular cavity may hold an eternity in the 'sliver of the everyday,' Alise Alousi's poems create cinematic dimensions beyond sight as they subtly, gently navigate her father's loss of sight—emblematic of the loss of all the multiplicities that define the speaker. It takes great prowess to shape 'memory / into a spoon,' as Alousi does, nourishing the spirit by revealing and recovering the past."
—Shadab Zeest Hashmi