My Father Dreams of a New Country
Lebanon, 1978 America, I see through your glass— I stretch my hand and my fingerprints are...
Read MoreRuth Awad has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Crab Orchard Review, CALYX, Diode, Southern Indiana Review, Rattle, The Adroit Journal, Vinyl Poetry, Epiphany, The Drunken Boat, and in the anthologies The Hundred Years' War: Modern War Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), New Poetry from the Midwest 2014 (New American Press, 2015), and Poets on Growth (Math Paper Press, 2015). She won the 2013 and 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest, and she was a finalist for the 2013 Ruth Lily Fellowship. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and two Pomeranians.
Lebanon, 1978 America, I see through your glass— I stretch my hand and my fingerprints are...
Read MoreOutside Beirut, Lebanon, 1978 My father drove north, Beirut blurring in the rearview...
Read MoreStrange to think of home when my stomach begs, though the belt garroting my waist,...
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