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Today's poem is "Here is where we kill         and give birth"
from Difficult

Diode Editions

Rewa Zeinati is a naturalized U.S. citizen who grew up in Beirut and Abu Dhabi. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks, Difficult (winner of the 2023 Diode Editions Poetry Chapbook Contest) and Bullets & Orchids (Corrupt Press, 2013), and the founder of Sukoon magazine. Her poems and essays are published in various journals and anthologies including, The Spectacle, Nimrod, New England Review, Natural Bridge Journal, Poetry Journal, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Grist, Silk Road, Prairie Schooner, Guernica, Persea Books, Cordite Poetry Review, So To Speak, The Common, Mizna, among others.With a B.A. from the American University of Beirut, and an M.F.A. from the University of Missouri, Saint Louis, Zeinati has years of advertising and teaching experience. She is currently the curator of public programming at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. Among other things, her multiple career paths and life experiences as an immigrant and expat inform her work.

Other poems on the web by Rewa Zeinati:
"How Water, Too, Keeps Us Whole"
"First Poem at 40"
Four poems
"i don’t remember"
"Rooms"
"My Mother-in-Law Prays in the Next Room"

Rewa Zeinati's Website.



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