Publications



"Our grandmothers' tears of Tatreez live on through us. Tatreez will always hold hope, tears and sumud...our cultural inheritance. Their gift to us for the enduring. We are more than fierce grief...we are ancestral indigeneities in human form dreamed into being by our ancestors. We are strength, poetry, art, magic and so much more. We were formed by dreams, sand and stardust but we are shaped by love. We can keep going through this time. We can and will endure." -- Micaela Kaibni Raen


2024 Awards & Nominated Poetry


                   ** Yalda Award Winner **
& Nominated for Best of the Net 2025

Qafiyah Review
Link to issue:


Nominated Pushcart Prize 2025

Noor Magazine
Poem: Piled Limestone 
Link to Inaugural Issue:
https://www.noormag.org/read
Direct Link to Poem:
https://www.noormag.org/micaela-kaibni-raen/piled-limestone


Publications List

In Print
Available for Purchase

Ask the Night for a Dream:
Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora
Anthology, Palestine Writes Press 2024
Pre-Orders Available


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/

Bombay Gin Literary Journal
Naropa University, Autumn 2024
https://www.naropa.edu/academics/jks/publications/bombay-gin

Catalyst 
New Zealand
The international launch will be held at the
43 World Congress of Poets, 8-13 December, in Taiwan.
December 2024

Yellow Medicine Review
A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought
Fall 2024

Magma
France, November 2024

Rabbit Poetry
Australia, Autumn 2024


Art & Poetry
Available Online Now

Global Genocides & Health Catastrophes

The multiple genocides and populations facing violence and starvation has been unbearable to witness and is our call to action. We must all find out place in the struggle for justice and human rights. We will mourn, more than ever before, shedding tears for Palestine, Lebanon, Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Syria, and so many more areas with people struggling to survive disease, starvation and violent attacks. Many are planning protests, performances, teach-ins, letter/email/phone campaigns, community outreach, and more. As we move forward, here is my prayer…

 https://www.thehalacollective.com/blog/time-of-enduring-a-letter-to-my-hala-collective

I post event announcements on IG. In addition, I continue to create and donate, perform, teach and more. So, follow me... @micaelakaibniraen Please find ways to participate  for justice so we can stop the violence.


The Olive Tree 
** PLEASE SHARE ** The Olive Tree: An international collection of art protesting the ongoing genocide of Palestinians is now available online. Proud to be a part of this beautiful collection of creative work. It will break your heart and give you hope. It is a deeply spiritual search for justice and a sacred honoring of the Palestinian people through art and literature. Thank you students for your activism. #studentintifada

Where my work is located:
Pg 21 Poem: Genocide
Pg 70 Poem: Atrocious
Pg 72 Artwork: Tatreez Armor Breast Plate
@theolivetreeeditorial

Link to the Olive Tree Anthology:


Writers Resist
Artwork "Death Equals Silence" and Artist Statement


Koukash Review

Issue #2 in 2023
Poem: Woodcutters and Waiters

Rowayat Literary Journal

Issue #7 in 2023
Poem: Accept the Moon



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:

Heaven Looks Like Us
Palestinian Global Anglophone Poetry Anthology
Editors: George Abraham & Noor Hindi
Haymart Books 2025


Poetics:

More Announcements Coming Soon


More exciting announcements coming soon!


Micaela Kaibni Raen is a Palestinian American creator, cultural worker, queer femme-dyke, mother, and global Queer/Trans rights activist. She grew up in the Little Arabia community in California and graduated from Chapman University. During that time, she participated in the Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc., ACT UP!, and Queer Nation. She is most known for Queer Tatreez, a style of visual art and poetics inspired by Indigenous Palestinian Tatreez embroidery. She has been awarded the Yalda Award for Poetry as well as nominations for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Her artwork appears in Writer’s Resist; Bombay Gin Literary Journal; Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Thought;  The Olive Tree; Sinister Wisdom; and Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry published by Haymarket Press.

Her written work has been featured in Bint el Nas; Mizna; Qafiyah Review; Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Thought; The Poetry of Arab Women; and El Ghourabaa: A Queer and Trans Arab and Arabophone Anthology; and Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora.


Socials:
Web Site: https://micaelakaibniraen.blogspot.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/micaelakaibniraen
IG: @micaelakaibniraen


Past Publications

Anthologies:

  • A Kiss is Just a Kiss, Tall Grass Writers Guild, Baker & Taylor Publishing, Summer 2001
  • A Different Path: An Anthology of the Radius of Arab American Writers, Ed. D. H. Melhem & Leila Diab, Ridgeway Press, 2000
  • The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, Ed. Nathalie Handal, Interlink Publishing, 2000

Journals & Reviews:
  • Yellow Medicine Review,, “The Ancestors We Were Looking for We Have Become: International Queer Indigenous Voices,” edited by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Fall 2010
  • Mizna Literary Journal, 2014
  • Tagg Magazine, Features Author and Contributor, 2013 – 2015
  • 2000-2003: Bint el Nas; Ahbab Magazine, Chronogram: The Hudson Valley Arts Magazine


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