My Name on His Tongue: Poems

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments Ithank the editors of the following magazines, anthologies, and websites for publishing earlier versions of these poems: beacon broadside.com: “open letter to president-elect Barack Obama”; Emergences : “freedom fighter”; Food For Our Grandmothers: “browner shades of white,” “two women drinking coffee”; Harmony: “a day at the park a few days before,” “penmanship”; Mizna: “grandfathers,” “motherhood,” “one day in upstate New York”; Mr. Cogito: “August 16, 1990”; Poets for Palestine: “a moonlit visit”; rawi.org: “letter to an Israeli soldier”; The Poetry of Arab Women: “handfuls of wind,” “refugee”; and Sedek (Hebrew translation): “warning to all Arabs,” “browner shades of white,” and “handfuls of wind.” Thanks to Nathalie Handal and Helene Atwan, also to Mizna, for their support of my work. I am grateful to Khaled Mattawa for steering this collection into the generous hands of Mary Selden Evans who, along with the lovely staff at Syracuse University Press, gave this collection life. Love and thank yous to Kaiser Kuo, Rula Khalidi, and Waltraud Nichols for their valuable suggestions that helped shape this manuscript during various stages of preparation; to Houri Berberian for years of encouragement and support; to Marwan Mahmoud for always believing that my words need to be heard; to my mother, Margaret Halaby, for her support through the years and her constant and focused belief that my writing matters; and to Raad and Rabiah for the joy they bring into my life. ...