February, 2021

Poems which first appeared in New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015) have been translated into Romanian by Olimpia Iacob in two journals: Acolada Revista Lunara de Literatura si arta (December, 2020 issue) and Convorbiri literare ( see p. 167, January 2021 issue).

April, 2023

A fourth and stable draft of the novel has begun. A third collection of poetry is taking shape but not halfway complete. A conversation with poet, translator and editor Evan Jones appears in PN Review 270.

October, 2023

Sabbatical to finish the novel and the new collection of poems begun. “Prospects,” a new poem, is forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review 141.

December, 2023

Grateful to receive generous support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for the novel manuscript in progress.

March, 2024

Grateful to receive generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create program for the novel manuscript in progress.

July, 2024

Progressing with Leila and Khaled, doing a reading with Saeed Teebi in Montreal in July; diving into a new poetry collection. Two new poems will appear later this year in Mizna, a journal of the latest literature and ideas from Arab and Southwest Asian and North African writers and artists.

Sept. - Oct., 2024

Feedback on final draft for Leila and Khaled in the offing; new poetry and prose-poetry collections are advancing. I think I’m beginning to reach the light, as Odesza would say. New poems will appear later this year in Mizna, a journal of contemporary literature and art from South and West Asian and North African (SWANA) writers and artists. I will be undertaking a La Napoule Art Foundation Residency in France for a month in Spring, 2025.

January, 2025

On the 30th, I’ll be reading at the Arab American National Museum reading series (online), co-presented with Mizna (two poems in issue 25.1) and Palestine Writes.

My novel Leila and Khaled will appear with House of Anansi in 2026!