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A Concordance of Leaves, a long poem based on a family wedding in Palestine, is now out from Diode Editions. I'm happy to announce that I've been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts for 2013! abu ghraib arias won the Arab American Book Award for poetry (2012). Purchase your copy directly from the publisher, Flying Guillotine Press. Now in its third printing. My poetic sequence, from "Home/Front," won the Anne Halley Prize from the Massachusetts Review in 2012. "Beyond Grief and Grievance: The Poetry of 9/11 and its Aftermath," was published on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 2001. "Poems for Peace," (2010) was published on the Poetry Foundation website. I was awarded the 2010 Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist for work the jury has called "beautiful, powerful, and magnetically original." Here's a clip. See my blog at http://www.behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com, where I extend the arguments in Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (2007). Here's an article about the blog. To See the Earth, from Cleveland State, was awarded a jury prize from The Lit (2008).
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