A Human Voice: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF THE IHRAF PUBLISHES LITERARY MAGAZINE
To celebrate and uplift up-and-coming authors from all over the world whose writing centers on social justice and activist themes.
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Rana Bitar, MD, MFA
Author & Poet
AUTHOR & POET
RANA BITAR
IN THE NEWS
- Sep 1, 2022
- 4 min
Beltway Poetry Quarterly, African Breasts: by Nizar Qabbani
African Breasts: by Nizar Qabbani; Translated by Rana Bitar with Robert Bensen
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- Apr 26, 2022
- 1 min
Last Christmas by Rana Bitar
Last Christmas Can someone tell that pine tree, lying behind the gate over a bed of fading grass and no pillow, —trunk naked, bark...
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- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
The Nonconformist A Lesson in Drawing
By Nizar Qabbani | Rana Bitar | Robert Bensen
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- Jan 30, 2022
- 1 min
The American Journal of Poetry | Nizar Qabbani-Translated from Arabic by Rana Bitar & Robert Bensen
I Love You to Lift Up the Sky
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- Jan 18, 2022
- 1 min
Black Coffee ReviewApocalypse: Special IssueSelf-Quarantine
Isolation’s color bleeds into the hallways of my house to the street of my town, to the plazas and the bridges and the riverbanks and the...
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- Nov 11, 2021
- 1 min
AGNI | Nizar Qabbani-Translated from Arabic by Rana Bitar with Robert Bensen
Bread, Hashish, and the Moon
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- Oct 17, 2021
- 1 min
The Concrete Desert Review
Travelling and Exodus | 2 Published Poems by Rana Bitar| Issue Two
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- May 19, 2021
- 1 min
The Nonconformist, May 19, 2021 Rhapsodies of Seduction
I. Think Of Me Think of me Pull my face from behind the clock’s ticks and tocks. Look —in the blackness of my eyes— for a pillow to rest...
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- Mar 17, 2021
- 1 min
The NonconformistStanding in Linesby Nizar Qabbani
I asked for some sunshine The policeman said, Stand in line, mister I asked for some ink to write my name They said, Stand in line I...
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- Mar 7, 2021
- 1 min
The Nonconformist The Train Of Sorrows By Nizar Qabbani
I take thousands of trains and I ride my tragedy I ride the cloud of my cigarette I carry in my only one suitcase the addresses of my...
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- Mar 3, 2021
- 1 min
The Deadly Writers Patrol #18. Spring 2021. Made in Vietnam.
Source: https://www.deadlywriterspatrol.org/order/895mmwe5z81o4zy99eclbplhhd10uo
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- Mar 2, 2021
- 1 min
Illuminations - V36, Spring 2021 Translated Poetry of Nizar Qabbani.
Illuminations made its first appearance in Columbia, South Carolina in 1982 under the editorship of Peter MacMillan. The issue featured...
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- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
El Portal, Volume 79, Num 1, Spring 2021. Savoring Fear
Source: https://elportaljournal.com/issues/
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- Dec 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Sextant Review Issue II - 2020 Cinderella in Arabia
Source: https://www.sextantreview.com/issues
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- Sep 30, 2020
- 1 min
Beltway Poetry Quarterly Fall 2020 - Issue 21:4Viral Dream
Daddy’s face was our Central Park We ran on the banks of his mouth We sledded on the hill of his nose We made faces at ourselves in the...
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- Aug 1, 2020
- 2 min
DoveTales A Writing for Peace Literary Journal of the Arts Summer 2020, The Shades of Black
Nine minutes. Long enough for history to unfold before the eyes Long enough to squeeze forgetting out of collective sleepy lungs one...
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- Jun 13, 2020
- 2 min
Seeing Things an Anthology of Poetry Revelations | An Early Drive to Work | Crush | Letting Go
"We see things. And sometimes we SEE things. And some of us want, or are compelled, to make things we see into words, to pursue what the...
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- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Phoenix Issue 61, 2020 Letting Go
Interested in getting your hands on the 61st issue of The Phoenix? Here's your chance! In lieu of a Launch Party release, copies for our...
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- May 7, 2020
- 1 min
The Dewdrop Isolation Shorts April 5, 2020
Right now, millions of us over the planet are staying behind closed doors in unison, away from our jobs, activities and the people we...
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