Choose a form, subject, or place and follow it through poems, stories, life writing, and reflections. These are editorial paths through the archive.
Browse by form and practice
Follow a theme
Curated routes through recurring questions of memory, belonging, identity, and language.
Damascus, Memory & Exile
Place, history, memory, and displacement: Old · The Dove · Rosae damascena · A Broken Line · The Eternal Refugee.
On Being Human
Belonging, compassion, memory, and shared lives: Ode to a Friend. Of Being · The Fall · Let Me Tell You · Fellow Men.
The Art of Becoming
Identity, transformation, and the making of a self: Manhood · Metamorphosis · The Ritual · Convoluted Ego · The Tattered Throne.
Fiction & Storytelling
Stories between invention and lived experience: Final Stop · Home · The American Dream.
Experiments in Language
Writing across languages and forms: Are You Going to Embrace My Sect? · Beknown · The Immigrant.
Explore by place and subject
Continue into the existing archives for home and belonging · war · literature · Syria · Ukraine.
For every recent entry, visit the Journal. For the writing practice, visit The Writer’s Notebook.
