"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 were formed by dreams, sand and stardust but we are shaped by love.
We are poetry. We are Palestine."
-- Micaela Kaibni Raen
Awards & Nominated Poetry
** Yalda Award Winner **
& Nominated for Best of the Net
Qafiyah ReviewPoem: On the Night of Invasion 2024, Issue TwoLink to issue:Nominated Pushcart Prize Noor MagazinePoem: Piled Limestone 2024, Inaugural IssueDirect Link to Poem:
2024, Issue Two
Brief Publications List
In Print
Available for Purchase
Homosexual Intifada
https://interlinkbooks.com/product/homosexual-intifada/
PREORDER--> Sinister Wisdom SWANA DYKES
https://bookshop.org/p/books/swana-dykes-khadija-pitts-ceesay/fd5be70233537c55
Poetry of Arab Women
https://interlinkbooks.com/product/the-poetry-of-arab-women/
Ask the Night for a Dream
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2527-heaven-looks-like-us
Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora
Edited by: Susan Muaddi Darraj
Edited by: Susan Muaddi Darraj
Anthology, Palestine Writes Press 2024
Palestinian Writes Press Order Link
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
Edited by: George Abraham & Noor Hindi
Anthology, Haymarket Books 2025
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2527-heaven-looks-like-us
Black Warrior Review
Visual Poetics
Pending Spring/Summer 2026
https://bwr.ua.edu/subscribe/
https://anodynemag.com/vol3/
Palestinian Writes Press Order Link
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
Edited by: George Abraham & Noor Hindi
Anthology, Haymarket Books 2025
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2527-heaven-looks-like-us
Visual Poetics
Pending Spring/Summer 2026
https://bwr.ua.edu/subscribe/
Anodyne Magazine
Germany, Volume Three Summer 2024https://anodynemag.com/vol3/
EL GHOURABAA:A QUEER AND TRANS COLLECTION OF ODDITIES
Edited by: Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
Metonymy Press 2024
Edited by: Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
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-ginCatalyst
Catalyst Literary Arts JournalBombay Gin Literary Journal
Naropa University, Autumn 2024
https://www.naropa.edu/academics/jks/publications/bombay-ginCatalyst
New Zealand, December 2024
https://catalystnz.blogspot.com/
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought
Poetry, Visual Poetics, and Flash Nonfiction Included, Fall 2024
http://www.yellowmedicinereviewstore.com/
Magma
France, November 2024
https://magmapoetry.com/
Rabbit Poetry
Australia, Autumn 2024
https://rabbitpoetry.com/
Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land
The Dodge: A special teaching issue on Palestine and the Global Indigenous Struggle.
Visual Art with customized curriculum.
Print edition: May 2026
"Olive Sunrise (Queer Tatreez)” artwork is on the cover of Lavender Rising! Nature is queer. Nature defies binary thinking. --> Also inside the magazine is more Queer Tatreez.
Radical Catalyst Journal
Resisting Authoritarian Issue
My work is on page 12 of the July 2025 issue.
https://radicalcatalystjournal.org/issue1_1.html
Australia, Autumn 2024
https://rabbitpoetry.com/
Art & PoetryAvailable Online Now
Return to Roots: Writing Toward LandThe Dodge: A special teaching issue on Palestine and the Global Indigenous Struggle.
Visual Art with customized curriculum.
Print edition: May 2026
Online edition is available now at https://thedodgemag.com/return-to-roots/rafah-queer-tatreez/
Lavender Rising Magazine"Olive Sunrise (Queer Tatreez)” artwork is on the cover of Lavender Rising! Nature is queer. Nature defies binary thinking. --> Also inside the magazine is more Queer Tatreez.
Resisting Authoritarian Issue
My work is on page 12 of the July 2025 issue.
https://radicalcatalystjournal.org/issue1_1.html
Tendrils Literary Journal
A print publication as well as a highly competitive and curated online journal, has published visual poetics that questions...what happens to us when we can no longer hear the whispers of the poppies? The artwork in the poem is vividly stunning and references trauma, tears, and sumud.
Link to my work in the issue:
https://www.tendrilsjournal.com/issue1-trauma-and-the-body#whispers
Ultramarine Literary ReviewMy artwork in a beautiful Chilean magazine. Title: “Last Flight Home.” The artwork speaks to the global loss of life in Queer/Trans communities. Most of us surviving without basic human rights.
https://www.ultramarinereview.com/art-and-photography?pgid=m49781cs-29f9a094-8cc5-4693-a4c4-4b56e2409945
Chapter House Indigenous Literary Journal
Visual Poetics
https://chjournal.com/micaela-raen
Koukash Review2023, Issue Two
https://www.koukash.com/issue2/woodcutters-and-waiters
Rowayat Literary Journal
2023, Issue Seven
https://rowayat.org/accept-the-moon/
HALA Collective Blog Annual Artwork & Article for Pride
2024 - Current
https://www.thehalacollective.com/blog
A print publication as well as a highly competitive and curated online journal, has published visual poetics that questions...what happens to us when we can no longer hear the whispers of the poppies? The artwork in the poem is vividly stunning and references trauma, tears, and sumud.
Link to my work in the issue:
https://www.tendrilsjournal.com/issue1-trauma-and-the-body#whispers
https://www.ultramarinereview.com/art-and-photography?pgid=m49781cs-29f9a094-8cc5-4693-a4c4-4b56e2409945
Visual Poetics
https://chjournal.com/micaela-raen
Koukash Review
2023, Issue Two
https://www.koukash.com/issue2/woodcutters-and-waiters
Rowayat Literary Journal
2023, Issue Seven
https://rowayat.org/accept-the-moon/
https://www.koukash.com/issue2/woodcutters-and-waiters
Rowayat Literary Journal
2023, Issue Seven
https://rowayat.org/accept-the-moon/
Writers Resist
Artwork "Death Equals Silence" and Artist Statement
2024, Issue Three
https://www.writersresist.com/2024/06/19/death-equals-silence/
Artwork "Death Equals Silence" and Artist Statement
2024, Issue Three
https://www.writersresist.com/2024/06/19/death-equals-silence/
Performances Available Online
Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the DiasporaPalestinian Museum U.S., February 16, 2025Link the to Event - Available to watch now on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y8K0x6HPaA&list=PLhervyCf8iV5PetlP0A5Dl7315-pmm7PV&index=2Poetry Reading and Presentation
SWANA Regional Radio - Podcast on SpotifyOriginally aired on KPFK Los Angeles, NPR on January 7, 2023
“Who Remembers?”: Armenian-Palestinian Solidarities: A Reading on YouTubePoetry Reading and Presentation on December 10, 2023
More vids are available on my YouTube channel:
Pending Publications
Anthology Inclusions
SWANA DYKESSinister Wisdom Trade Book Cover Art & Artist StatementPREORDERS @ BookShop.org
Olive Tree Editorial Zine
Trade Book Edition
Poetry and Visual Art
Pending 2026
Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora
Palestinian Museum U.S., February 16, 2025
Link the to Event - Available to watch now on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y8K0x6HPaA&list=PLhervyCf8iV5PetlP0A5Dl7315-pmm7PV&index=2Poetry Reading and Presentation
SWANA Regional Radio - Podcast on Spotify
Originally aired on KPFK Los Angeles, NPR on January 7, 2023
“Who Remembers?”: Armenian-Palestinian Solidarities: A Reading on YouTube
More vids are available on my YouTube channel:
Pending Publications
Anthology Inclusions
SWANA DYKES
Sinister Wisdom Trade Book
Cover Art & Artist Statement
PREORDERS @ BookShop.org
Olive Tree Editorial Zine
Trade Book Edition
Poetry and Visual Art
Pending 2026
** ACT UP! Beyond New York **Haymarket BooksMemoir EssayPending 2027
Journals/Magazines
EPOCHVisual PoeticsPending Summer 2026
Sinister Wisdom (SWANA Dykes Issue)Cover Art & Artist StatementPending Autumn 2026
More exciting announcements coming soon!
** ACT UP! Beyond New York **
Haymarket Books
Memoir Essay
Pending 2027
Journals/Magazines
EPOCH
Visual Poetics
Pending Summer 2026
Sinister Wisdom (SWANA Dykes Issue)
Cover Art & Artist Statement
Pending Autumn 2026
More exciting announcements coming soon!
Micaela Kaibni Raen is a queer Palestinian American mother from the Little Arabia community in California. She has been recognized by the Lesbian Herstory Archives for her activism and is the creator of Queer Tatreez, a style of visual art and poetics inspired by Indigenous Palestinian embroidery. A Tin House Alum, her work is featured in Bint el Nas; Mizna; The Poetry of Arab Women; Yellow Medicine Review; Heaven Looks Like Us; and Homosexual Intifada. With visual artwork showcased by Black Warrior Review, Sinister Wisdom, FananaMke, Resistance at A.R.T./New York, and Protea Gallery in Los Angeles.
Socials:
Web Site: https://micaelakaibniraen.blogspot.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/micaelakaibniraen
IG: @micaelakaibniraen
Micaela Kaibni Raen is a queer Palestinian American mother from the Little Arabia community in California. She has been recognized by the Lesbian Herstory Archives for her activism and is the creator of Queer Tatreez, a style of visual art and poetics inspired by Indigenous Palestinian embroidery. A Tin House Alum, her work is featured in Bint el Nas; Mizna; The Poetry of Arab Women; Yellow Medicine Review; Heaven Looks Like Us; and Homosexual Intifada. With visual artwork showcased by Black Warrior Review, Sinister Wisdom, FananaMke, Resistance at A.R.T./New York, and Protea Gallery in Los Angeles.
Socials:
Web Site: https://micaelakaibniraen.blogspot.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/micaelakaibniraen
IG: @micaelakaibniraen
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