A Year in Review

As we move forward in this time of enduring, we bring with us those affected by genocides, past and present, around the globe...and in so doing, we grieve unconceivable losses to humanity and our mother-planet. Through art and poetry, my work mourns violence against humanity and strives to uncover new perceptions through the lens of culture, love, loss, grief and rage. Through artistic activism, I process deep emotion, dream my people free, and seek out new futures.

 2024 Overview

Published in print journals and magazines in seven countries and several international online magazines. Two print anthology inclusions (see Publications page) as well as a literary award and two nominations (see above). 

Published work in 2024:

• 15 Poems
• 1 Queer Tatreez Visual Poem
• 1 Visual Poetic Poem
• 2 Flash Nonfiction Pieces
• 1 Article
• 2 Queer Tatreez Visual Art Pieces

I am my grandmothers’ dream, and she is mine. We exist together through Tatreez, Indigenous Palestinian textiles and embroidery. Together, we share cultural memory, ancestral wisdom, and visions of new futures. Thank you to the journals and magazines that have supported my work and my voice. I am deeply grateful to represent my family and homeland through art and poetry. I admire your courage and resolve in showcasing Indigenous Palestinian voices during this turbulent and violent time. It means so much to me to be included, beside so many talented creators, within the pages of your publications.

For more detailed information, 

click on the "Publications" tab above.

Literary Award Nomination Announcements

 

Poetry Award Nominations Fall 2024

Poem: 

Piled Limestone

Award Nominee: Pushcart Prize

Noor Magazine
Inaugural Issue
Link to online Inaugural Issue:

https://www.noormag.org/read

Direct Link to Poem:
https://www.noormag.org/micaela-kaibni-raen/piled-limestone

Poem:

On the Night of Invasion

Awarded: Yalda Award for Poetry 2024

Award Nominee: Best of the Net 2024

Qafiyah Review
Issue #2 March 2023
Link to online issue:

https://www.qafiyahreview.com/sumac-issue-2

Direct link to poem:

https://www.qafiyahreview.com/micaela-kaibni-raen

Note of Appreciation:

I am my grandmothers’ dream, and she is mine. We exist together through Tatreez, Indigenous Palestinian textiles and embroidery. Together, we share cultural memory, ancestral wisdom, and visions of new futures. Thank you, Qafiiyah Review and Noor Magazine, for supporting my work and my voice. I am deeply grateful to represent my family and homeland through art and poetry. I admire your courage and resolve in showcasing Indigenous Palestinian voices during this turbulent and violent time. It means so much to me to be included, beside so many talented creators, within the pages of your publications. In appreciation, Micaela Kaibni Raen

Winter 2024

                         

"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

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

https://catalystnz.blogspot.com/

Art & Poetry

Available Online Now

Qafiyah Review

Issue #2 March 2023

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

https://www.qafiyahreview.com/micaela-kaibni-raen

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:

Click here for online anthology link.

Noor Magazine

Link to Inaugural Issue:

https://www.noormag.org/read

Direct Link to Poem:

https://www.noormag.org/micaela-kaibni-raen/piled-limestone

Writers Resist
Artwork "Death Equals Silence" and Artist Statement

Available in Issue Three (2024)
Link to Issue Three:
https://www.writersresist.com/2024/06/19/welcome-to-writers-resist-the-summer-2024-issue/
Direct Link to Artwork:
https://www.writersresist.com/2024/06/19/death-equals-silence/

Koukash Review

Issue #2 in 2023

Poem: Woodcutters and Waiters

https://www.koukash.com/copy-of-home

Rowayat Literary Journal

Issue #7 in 2023

Poem: Accept the Moon

https://rowayat.org/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

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2GBYDF5uAeMr1ryDYrsbBt?si=JCCmwDuVQImP9U3eXiLOsg

Poetry Reading and Presentation  on December 10, 2023

“Who Remembers?”: Armenian-Palestinian Solidarities: A Reading on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8X3_2TKIQ&list=WL&index=28&t=2505s

Pending Publication

Visual Poetics:

Yellow Medicine Review

A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought

Fall 2024

http://www.yellowmedicinereviewstore.com/

Heaven Looks Like Us

Palestinian Global Anglophone Poetry Anthology

Editors: George Abraham & Noor Hindi

Haymart Books 2025

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/

Poetics:

Magma

France, November 2024

https://magmapoetry.com/

Ask the Night for a Dream:

Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora

Anthology, Palestine Writes Press 2024

https://palestinewrites.org/

Rabbit Poetry

Australia, Autumn 2024

https://rabbitpoetry.com/

More exciting announcements coming soon!

For a full list of publications, click on the "Publications" tab at the top.

What's Coming in Autumn 2024

One Year of Genocide
& Health Catastrophes in Palestine

As activist-artists many of us are pushing ourselves to the limit advocating for justice. The longer the status quo remains, we will be involved in an increased number of "calls to action." One year of genocide has been unbearable to witness and the struggle for human rights continues. 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 have, and will continue to, donate art and poetry, perform, teach and more. So, follow me over there ... @micaelakaibniraen Please find ways to participate so we can end the violence.

Busy Autumn

By the end of 2024, I will have been published in several print and online magazines and two print anthologies. Publishers were located in North America, France, Germany, England, New Zealand and Australia. For content available, check out my publications page.

Awards

"On the Night of Invasion," won the Yalda Award in Poetry by the Qafiyah Review and has recently been nominated for a "Best of the Net" award. I was so surprised and honored to have my work nominated. My writing is a powerful way to honor my families, communities and homeland. You can read the poem at the link below.

Qafiyah Review
Poem: On the Night of Invasion
Invasion *Yalda Award Winner* & Nominated for "Best of the Net" Award 2024
https://www.qafiyahreview.com/micaela-kaibni-raen

HALA Queer

I recently joined the HALA Collective! 

HALA is dedicated to the principles of liberation,

inclusivity, and social justice. Through art, 

performance, and activism, 

HALA challenges both historical and contemporary 

forms of oppression, emphasizing queer resistance, 

heritage preservation, and cultural activism. 

I am honored to be included with such talented creators 

advocating for global liberation, 

equality, and justice.

Discover more about our members and events here:

https://www.thehalacollective.com/

Finding Treasure

Please click on the PUBLICATIONS tab above to read poetry, discover art, and more. The publications include a diversity of writers and artists for you to discover. The list on the PUBLICATIONS page is a treasure of highly crafted creative works in magazines, journals, and digital books. 

** New 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

Metonymy Press 2024
https://metonymypress.com/shop/books/el-ghourabaa-queer-trans-oddities/

Art & Poetry

Available Online Now

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. 

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:

Click here for online anthology link.

Noor Magazine

Link to Inaugural Issue:

https://www.noormag.org/read

Direct Link to Poem:

https://www.noormag.org/micaela-kaibni-raen/piled-limestone

Writers Resist

Artwork "Death Equals Silence"  and Artist Statement

Available in Issue Three (2024)
Link to Issue Three:

https://www.writersresist.com/2024/06/19/welcome-to-writers-resist-the-summer-2024-issue/
Direct Link to Artwork:

https://www.writersresist.com/2024/06/19/death-equals-silence/

Qafiyah Review

Issue #2 March 2023

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

https://www.qafiyahreview.com/micaela-kaibni-raen

Koukash Review

Issue #2 in 2023

Poem: Woodcutters and Waiters

https://www.koukash.com/copy-of-home

Rowayat Literary Journal

Issue #7 in 2023

Poem: Accept the Moon

https://rowayat.org/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

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2GBYDF5uAeMr1ryDYrsbBt?si=JCCmwDuVQImP9U3eXiLOsg

Poetry Reading and Presentation  on December 10, 2023

“Who Remembers?”: Armenian-Palestinian Solidarities: A Reading on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8X3_2TKIQ&list=WL&index=28&t=2505s

Pending Publications

Visual Poetics:

Bombay Gin Literary Journal

Naropa University

Autumn 2024

Heaven Looks Like Us

Palestinian Global Anglophone Poetry Anthology

Editors: George Abraham & Noor Hindi

Haymart Books 2025

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/

Poetics:

Magma

France, November 2024

Ask the Night for a Dream:

Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora

Anthology, Palestine Writes Press 2024

https://palestinewrites.org/

Catalyst 

New Zealand

The international launch will be held at the

43 World Congress of Poets, 8-13 December, in Taiwan.

December 2024

Rabbit Poetry

Australia, Autumn 2024

More exciting announcements coming soon!

For a full list of publications, click on the "Publications" tab at the top.

Publication Announcement

 

EL GHOURABAA:
A QUEER AND TRANS
COLLECTION OF ODDITIES

Metonymy Press 2024

Check out the many accomplished writers

included in the anthology. 

Information and available for purchase at:

https://metonymypress.com/shop/books/el-ghourabaa-queer-trans-oddities/

Fight censorship, discrimination and 

shadow bans by

supporting Queer and Trans

SWANA/MENSA writers.

Exciting Announcement - Yalda Literary Award for Poetry

Poem “On the Night of Invasion”

Receives the Yalda Literary Award from Qafiyah Review

I appreciate the mission, vision and dedication of Celina Naheed and the Qafiyah Review. I am so grateful to be receiving the Yalda Literary Award for Poetry by the Qafiyah Review. It is my great honor to represent my family and my homeland through art and poetry. With violent cultural erasure, rampant discrimination, shadow-bans and the censorship of Palestinian voices, it is hard to know if work and actions will ever reach others. This recognition has given me inspiration to continue educating, speaking truth to power and taking actions to create a more peaceful world. My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Celina Naheed and her team at Qafiyah Review. They do so much to support and amplify the voices of Middle Eastern and North African authors and artists as well as their communities.

Link to poem:
https://www.qafiyahreview.com/micaela-kaibni-raen

I am truly honored to be in issue #2 of Qafiyah Review alongside such talented and important creators.

Link to Issue:
https://www.qafiyahreview.com/sumac-issue-2