Publications

                       In Print & Available for Purchase


Anodyne Magazine
Volume Three Summer 2024
Poem: organic splendor
https://anodynemag.com/vol3/


EL GHOURABAA: A QUEER AND TRANS COLLECTION OF ODDITIES
Metonymy Press 2024
https://metonymypress.com/shop/books/el-ghourabaa-queer-trans-oddities/


Check Out these Online Now


Writers Resist: Writing is an Act of Resistance
Artwork "Death Equals Silence"  and Artist Statement Available Online in Issue Three

Link to Issue Three:
https://www.writersresist.com/2024/06/19/death-equals-silence/


Poem: On the Night of Invasion  *Yalda Award Winner*
Qafiyah Review Issue #2
https://www.qafiyahreview.com/micaela-kaibni-raen

Poem: Woodcutters and Waiters
Koukash Review Issue #2

Poem: Accept the Moon
Rowayat Literary Journal Issue #7

Poem: atrocious
Poem: genocide
Queer Tatreez Artwork: Tatreez Armor Breast Plate
ALIE(NATION) 
Summer Issue 2024 Upcoming
Temporarily available on IG @processingpalestineeditorial
Thank you students! #studentintifada

Performances Available Online:
Poetry Reading and Presentation
SWANA Regional Radio - Podcast on Spotify
Originally aired on KPFK Los Angeles, NPR on January 7, 2023

Poetry Reading and Presentation  on December 10, 2023
“Who Remembers?”: Armenian-Palestinian Solidarities: A Reading on YouTube

Pending Publication:

Visual Poetics: Many Moons (Queer Tatreez)
Bombay Gin Literary JournalNaropa University
https://www.naropa.edu/academics/jks/publications/bombay-gin/

Artwork and Poetry
ALIE(NATION) 
See Note Above - Summer Issue 2024

Poem: Zhedu's Garden
Magma Poetry 2024

Poem: Sitti's Stars
Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora
Anthology, Palestine Writes Press 2024
https://palestinewrites.org/

Visual Poetics: Silence on Fire (Queer Tatreez)
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
Palestinian Global Anglophone Poetry Anthology
Editors: George Abraham & Noor Hindi
Haymart Books 2025
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/

More exciting announcements coming soon!

Micaela Kaibni Raen is a Palestinian American creator, cultural worker, queer femme-dyke, mother, visual artist, multi-genre writer and activist committed to international human rights, especially that of Indigenous and displaced peoples, women, and LGBTIQ communities. Her work appears in Bint el Nas; Mizna; Koukash Review; Rowayat; Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Thought; The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology; A Different Path: An Anthology of the Radius of Arab American Writers; El Ghourabaa: A Queer and Trans Arab and Arabophone Anthology; and Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora.

Past Publications

Anthologies:
  • "Taboulli in London" in MIZNA Literary Journal, 2014.
  • "La Sombra of Who I Am" in Yellow Medicine Review, A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought, Guest Editor Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Fall 2010
  •  Poem in A Kiss is Just a Kiss, Tall Grass Writers Guild, Baker & Taylor Publishing, Summer 2001.
  • "Tears of Blood," A Different Path: An Anthology of the Radius of Arab American Writers, Ed. D. H. Melhem & Leila Diab, Ridgeway Press, 2000
  • "La Sombra of Who I Am" in The Poetry of Arab Women:  A Contemporary Anthology, Ed. Nathalie Handal, Interlink Publishing, 2000

  
News, Journals & Magazines:
  • Tagg Magazine, Features Author and Contributor, 2013 - Present   
  • Poem, Chronogram: The Hudson Valley Arts Magazine, April 2002 
  • "Melting Spring," poem, Bint el Nas Magazine, November 2001, http://www.bintelnas.org/
  • "Woven," poem, Ahbab Online Magazine, July 2001, http://glas.org/ahbab/
  • "Seaweed," poem, Ahbab Online Magazine, July 2001, http://glas.org/ahbab/
  • "Whipped Cream on Jell-O," prose, CAMP Rehoboth, August 13, 2004,  http://www.camprehoboth.com/letters/2004/august-13-2004-issue-index/august-13-2004-whipped-cream-jell-o.htm