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


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


Bombay Gin Literary Journal
Naropa University, Autumn 2024

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


Art & Poetry
Available Online Now

Noor Magazine
Poem: Piled Limestone  --> Nominated Pushcart Prize 2024
Link to Inaugural Issue:
Direct Link to Poem:

Qafiyah Review

Issue #2 March 2023

Poem: On the Night of Invasion --> Yalda Award Winner 
                                            & Nominated for Best of the Net 2024

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:

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

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


Poetics:

Magma
France, November 2024

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

Rabbit Poetry
Australia, Autumn 2024

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 Queer/Trans communities. She has been awarded the Yalda Award for Poetry as well as nominations for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

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
  

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