Jessica Abughattas is the author of Strip (University of Arkansas, 2020), winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Her short poetry film, Dinner Party, premiered at Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival in 2021. Her poems appear in Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.
Extinction
Summer 2024
A Highway Runs Through Town
A room with a sink. Talking to you through a curtain, on the toilet.The cabin’s wood-panel, piñon scent.I’m not tired. Everything soothes me.Blue corn blue sky blue stone.If you let […]
Extinction
Summer 2024
The Last Real Cowboy
There’s nothing in New Mexico,he croons, Highway 111 to Las Cruces. The last real cowboy is a Palestinian boyin a black-and-white photo on the wall he’s five years old. The […]