Deema Shehabi is a Palestinian-American poet whose work has appeared widely in anthologies and literary journals, including Literary Imagination, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, and Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab-American Poetry. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times, and she currently resides in northern California with her family.
Poetry
Spring 2011
From ‘Diasporenga’
A collaboration in alternating renga After she died, he’d lie downon the great white bedwhere she used to comb his eyebrows with her fingersuntil he fell asleep. He’d wake to […]
Poetry
Winter 2008
The Narrative
1. Yehuda Amichai is pondering a cracked ancient Jerusalem stone with his fingers— no point in appeasing a stone, he whispers as he rubs the obstinate, light-lifting indentation that punctuates […]