Authors featured in the booklist as of February 2026:

• Hanna Abi Akl (Diary in Poems, Vitality, Correspondents, Memory, Game Theory; contributor in: And We Choose Everything, The Poetryhood Anthology, Winter)
• George Abraham (The Specimen’s Apology, al youm; editor of: Heaven Looks Like Us, Homosexual Intifada; contributor in: Infinite Constellations, Forward, FIYAH (Winter 2022) Palestinian Issue, Mizna 19.2 The Palestine Issue, Bettering American Poetry #2, FIVE:2:ONE #17; introduction to: The Nightmare Sequence)
• Jessica Abughattas (Strip; contributor in: Poetry Foundation Magazine (Jul/Aug 2024)
• janan alexandra (come from; contributor in: Mizna 19.2 The Palestine Issue)
• Ahmad Almallah (Bitter English, Border Wisdom, Wrong Winds)
• Threa Almontaser (The Wild Fox of Yemen)
• Alise Alousi (What To Count; contributor in: Inclined to Speak, To Light a Fire - 20 Years with the Insideout Literary Arts Project)
• Zaina Alsous (A Theory of Birds, Lemon Effigies; contributor in: The BreakBeat Poets #3 Halal If You Hear Me, Mizna 19.2 The Palestine Issue, Kenyon Review (Jul/Aug 2019), The Baffler #21)
• Hala Alyan (Four Cities, Atrium, Hijra, The Twenty-Ninth Year, You’re Not a Girl In a Movie, The Moon That Turns You Back; editor of: We Call to the Eye & the Night; contributor in: Mizna 19.2 The Palestine Issue; Fourth Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival - A Chapbook of Talks and Poetry)
• Farah Z. Atallah (Exit signs on a seaside highway)
• Ruth Awad (Set to Music a Wildfire, Outside the Joy; editor of: The Familiar Wild, contributor in: Bettering American Poetry, Embodied, New Poetry From The Midwest 2014, Wildness Omnibus 2015-19, Wisdom & Reverie)
• Zeina Azzam (Some Things Never Leave You, Bayna Bayna - In-Between; contributor in: Mizna 19.2 The Palestine Issue)
• Farrah Chamma (contributor in: The Poetryhood Anthology)
• Rabab Chamseddine (contributor in: Daftar: Beginnings)
• Leila Chatti (Deluge, Figment, Teary Fails, Tunsiya-Amrikiya, Wildness Before Something Sublime)
• Nadim Choufi (contributor in: I Will Always Be Looking For You)
• Diane Decillis (Strings Attached, When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double)
• Carolina Ebeid (Hide, You Ask Me To Talk About the Interior, Dauerwunder; contributor in: Embodied, Kenyon Review (Jan/Feb 2020))
• Zein El-Amine: Is This How You Eat A Watermelon; contributor in: Ghostfishing, Poets Against the War)
• Silvia El Helo (contributor in: We Wrote In Sumbols)
• Mohammed El-Kurd (RIFQA)
• Hazem Fahmy (Red // Jild // Prayer, Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo)
• Majda Gama (The Call of Paradise, In The House of Modern Upbringing for Girls; contributor in: Come As You Are)
• donia salem harhoor (contributor in: Spoon River Poetry Review 46.2)
• Hedy Habra (The Taste of the Earth, Under Brushstrokes, Tea in Heliopolis, Or Did You Ever See The Other Side?)
• Nathalie Handal (The NeverField, The Lives of Rain, Love and Strange Horses, Poet in Andalucia, Life in a Country Album, The Republics, VOLO; editor of: The Poetry of Arab Women, Language for A New Century; contributor in: American Journal’s Fifty Poems for Our Time, This is Not A Border, Inclined to Speak, Dance the Guns to Silence, Ploughshares Spring 2024)
• Zeina Hashem Beck (Louder Than Hearts, To Live in Autumn, 3arabi Song, O (Penguin Poets), There Was and How Much There Was; editor of: We Call to the Eye & the Night; contributor in: And We Chose Everything, Red Sky)
• Eman Hassan (Raghead; contributor in: HYSTERIA)
• Marlin M. Jenkins (Capable Monsters; contributor in: Foreward, Monster House Press Quarterly 003 American Spring, Bennington Review Issue 3 Threat)
• Fady Joudah (The Earth in the Attic, Alight, Textu, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Tethered to Stars, […], Exhibit G; contributor in: Inclined to Speak, Poem for Palestine, Red Sky, Willow Springs 65, Brick 113, Ploughsharers Winter 2008-2009; as translator for Mahmoud Darwish: Unfortunately It Was Paradise, The Butterfly’s Burden, If I Were Another; as translator for Maya Abu Al Hayyat: You Can Be The Last Leaf; as translator for Ghassan Zaqtan: Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, The Silence That Remains; as translator for Hussein Barghouthi: The Blue Light; as translator of Amjad Nasser: Petra, A Map of Signs and Scents; as translator: World War 3 NOW?)
• Zeyn Joukhadar (just femme & dandy mixtape; editor of: Mizna 21.1 Queer and Trans Voices)
• Farah Kader (contributor in: FIYAH (Winter 2022) Palestinian Issue)
• Mohja Kahf (Hagar Poems, E-mails from Sheherezad, My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit; contributor in: Inclined to Speak, Kaleidoscope of Stories, I Go to the Ruined Place, Annunciation)
• Nour Kamel (Noon; editor of: ArabLit Quarterly Summer 2021 THE KITCHEN; contributor in: New-Generation African Poets)
• Sara Khayat (Unspeakable Poem, Borrowed Bones; editor of: Cityscapes, Reasons To Never Return; contributor in: Ground Zero)
• Tariq Luthun (How the Water Holds Me; contributor in: Wildness Omnibus 2015-19)
• Lisa Luxx / lisa minerva luxx (Fetch Your Mother’s Heart, Polyphonic Scars; contributor in: Anti-Hate Anthology)
• Lisa Suhair Majaj (Geographies of Light)
• Siwar Masannat (50 Water Dreams, cue; editor of: Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry)
• Doma Mikhayel Matta (essay in: This Arab is Queer)
• Farid Matuk (This Isa Nice Neighborhood, The Real Horse, Moon Mirrored Indivisible / Redolent; contributor in: Iowa Review (Fall 2013); as translator of Tilsa Otta: The Hormone of Darkness)
• Philip Metres (Shrapnel Maps, Sand Opera, The Sound of Listening, Fugitive/Refugee, To See The Earth, abu ghraib arias, A Primer of Non-Native Speaker, Returning to Jaffa; epic poems: A Concordance of Leaves, Instants, Ode to Oil; editor of: Come Together - Imagine Peace, Behind the Lines; contributor in: Inclined to Speak, On The National Language, 2015 Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology, Kenyon Review (Jan/Feb 2019) / (Jan/Feb 2020) / (Mar/April 2022), Resist Much Obey Little, 2019 WLA Folios, Among Margins, Breaking Into Blossoms, Sign & Breath; translator of Arseny Tarkovsky: I Burned at the Feast; translator of Sergey Gandlevsky: A Kindred Orphanhood, Ochre & Rust; as translator of Lev Rubinstein: Thirty-Five New Pages
• Noor Naga (novel-in-verse: Washes Prays)
• Hala Nasr (contributor in: Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand)
• Naomi Shihab Nye (Words Under the Words, 19 Varieties of Gazelle, Cast Away, Honeybee, Fuel, Everything Comes Next, A Maze Me, The Tiny Journalist, Voices in the Air, Red Suitcase, You & Yours, Transfer, Grace Notes, Come With Me, Tender Spot, Mint Snowball, Yellow Glove, Is This Forever, or What?, Hugging the Jukebox, Different Ways to Pray, Famous, Dear Vaccine, Travel Alarm, kindness, Mint, Valentine for Ernest Mann; Editor of: What Have You Lost?, This Same Sky, Time You Let Me In, The Flag of Childhood, The Tree Is Older Than You Are, I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You, Salting the Ocean, The Space Between Our Footsteps, Between Heaven and Texas, Bamboo Ridge Journal of Hawaiʻi Literature and Arts #128; Contributor in: Voices Along the River: The San Antonio Poetry Fair 2002 Anthology, She Walks in Beauty, Women of Resistance, Thanku, First Kiss (Then Tell), One Minute till Bedtime, I Remember, What You Wish For, World Make Way, Inclined to Speak, What Saves Us, Vinegar and Char, My Heart is a Poem, In the Arms of Words, Real Things, Dark as a Hazel Eye, Ploughshares Spring 2025, Red Sky, Texas Poets in Concert, Leaning House Poetry, Ten Poems about Sons, Beyond Bars: A Journal of Literature and Art, Plough Quarterly #7 Mercy, Cut Loose the Body, The Sixties, Irish Pages 9.2, Cutthroat 27.1 Through the Ash New Leaves, Kansas City Voices #7, Green Mountains Review’s Multicultural Writing in America; Translator of Abu-I-Qasim: Songs of Life: Selections From the Poetry of Abu-I-Qasim, 1909-1934; Translator of Muhammad Al-Maghut: Fan of Swords
• Jess Rizkallah (the magic my body becomes, sad bitch hours, Where The Moon Go; editor of: Maps For Teeth Summer 2014 Issue #1; contributor in: Commonthought 2013, I Can Count To 10 #1, Berkeley Fiction Review Volume 39)
• Zein Sa’denin (staircase)
• Omar Sabbagh (My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint, Morning Lit, Rip, For Echo, To the Middle of Love, The Square Root of Beirut, Night Settles Upon The City, But It was an Important Failure, Waxed Mahogany; verse-documentary: Cedar)
• Lubna Safi (Your Blue and the Quiet Lament)
• Aiya Sakr (Her Bones Catch the Sun; contributor in: FIYAH (Winter 2022) Palestinian Issue)
• Omar Sakr (These Wild Houses, The Lost Arabs, Non-Essential Work, The Nightmare Sequence; contributor in: The Best Australian Poems 2016, FIYAH (Winter 2022) Palestinian Issue)
• Glenn Shaheen (Energy Corridor, Predatory; contributor in: Spoon River Poetry Review 41.2 (Winter 2016))
• Deema K. Shehani (Thirteen Departures from the Moon, Diaspo/Renga, Water to Water Gaza Renga; editor of: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here; contributor in: Inclined to Speak, Shadowed - Unheard Voices, The Kenyon Review Spring 2011, Bat City Review #3 (2007),
• Hind Shoufani (More Light Than Death Could Bear, Inkstains on the Edge of Light, Uncommon Dubai; contributor in: And We Chose Everything)
• Fargo Nissim Tbakhi (TERROR COUNTER; contributor in: FIYAH (Winter 2022) Palestinian Issue, Mizna 19.2 The Palestine Issue)
• Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (Water & Salt, Kaan & Her Sisters, Something About Living, Letters from the Interior, Arab in Newsland; contributor in: Mizna 19.2 The Palestine Issue, The BreakBeat Poets #3 Halal If You Hear Me, The Long Devotion, Bettering American Poetry #2, Black Warrior Review 44.1, Ploughshares Spring 2025)
• Peter Twal (Our Earliest Tattoos; contributor in: Spoon River Poetry Review 44.2 (Winter 2019))
• Sarah Uheida (Not This Tender)
• Rewa Zeinati (Bullets & Orchids, Difficult; editor of Sukoon journal); contributor in: And We Chose Everything)

Published poetry books or chap books not yet on GR/PB as of February 2026:

• Best of the Net Anthology (contributor Philipe Abiyouness)
• Travel Guide to the Exiled (author Zein Él-Amine)
• We Feel a Country in Our Bones (contributor Ayah El-Fahwami)
• Between the Shadow & the Soul (Mariam Gomaa)
• Moor Drowning (Rushda Rafeek)
• If Luv is a Chemical So What Who Cares, Anyway (zines by Jess Rizkallah)
• the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature (Autumn 2023) (contributions from Sarah Uheida)

Additional authors from “We Call to the Eye & the Night” featured in poetry periodicals that are not available to add to the booklist as of February 2026:

• Philipe AbiYouness
• Sumayyah Abu-Hulayel
• Tala Abu Rahmeh
• Rasha Alduwaisan
• Hajer Almosleh
• Amanda Ghazal Aziz
• Nadia Ibrashi
• Bashar Lulu Jabbour
• Belal Mobarak
• Yasmine Roukiaya
• Sara Saab
• Theresa Sahyoun
• Nur Turkmani

Authors with no other credit found other than “We Call to the Eye & the Night” as of February 2026:

• Omar Alsayyed (academic)
• Farah Z. Aridi (academic)
• Mariam Barghouti (journalist)
• Hiba Dagher (academic)
• Nuzaida Imady (academic)
• Nawal Muradwij (clinical psychologist)
• Aziza Okab (content strategist)

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For anyone interested in the authors from “We Call to the Eye & the Night” beyond poetry here is a list of their non-poetry works as of February 2026:

• Hanna Abi Akl (novels: It’s A Big Big World, A World Away From Home; short story in: One Hundred Voices; essays: Titans; memoir: Stems from the Edge of Silence: Writings from the springs of the mind)
• Leena Aboutaleb (contributor in: FIYAH (Winter 2022) Palestinian Issue)
• George Abraham (novel: Birthright)
• Zeina Abi Assy (short story: in Arab Women Voice New Realities)
• janan Alexandra (contributor in: A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia)
• Hajer Almosleh (novel: Friday; short story: Gone)
• Sarah Alsaidi (non-fiction: Microintervention Strategies: What You Can Do to Disarm and Dismantle Individual and Systemic Racism and Bias)
• Hala Alyan (novels: Salt Houses, Arsonist’s City; The Blue Between Sky and Water; memoir: I'll Tell You When I'm Home; short stories: Tal; short story in: Shorts #1 (2019); essay in: Upstream; contributor in: After October 7 - A Jewish Currents Reader)
• Farah Z. Atallah (travel journal: Edge of Elysium, Vol.1)
• Mohammed El-Kurd (non-fiction: Perfect Victims)
• Majda Gama (articles in: Fairy Tale Review - The Blue Issue, Fairy Tales Review - The Mauve Issue)
• Hedy Habra (short stories in: Flying Carpets)
• Nathalie Handal (introduction to: Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora; a play: Between Our Lips)
• Zeyn Joukhadar (novels: The Thirty Names of Night, The Map of Salt and Stars)
• Mohja Kahf (novel: The Girl In The Tangerine Scarf; non-fiction: Western Representations of the Muslim Woman, Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa; essays in: Living Islam out Loud, River Teeth 11.1)
• Lisa Luxx / lisa minerva luxx (play: Eating the Copper Apple; SF short story in Collision: Stories From the Science of CERN)
• Lisa Suhair Majaj (editor of essay collections: Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist, Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels; autobiographical plays: This is not a memorized script, this is a well-rehearsed story, This Text is a Lonely Document)
• Philip Metres (essay collection: Dispatches from the Land of Erasure; essays in: A Sense of Regard, Narratives of Dissent, Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict; foreword in: Prison Etiquette; afterword in: Tracking/Teaching: On Documentary Poetics)
• Noor Naga (novel-in-verse: Washes Prays, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English; essay in: The Common No. 15)
• Naomi Shihab Nye (novels: Habibi, The Turtle of Oman, The Turtle of Michigan, Going Going; picture book: Sitti’s Secret, Baby Radar, Lullaby Raft, Benito’s Dream Bottle; Short stories: There Is No Long Distance Now, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?, Shoofly Pie; Essays: Never in a Hurry; Editor of: I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas; Contributor in: Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present, Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices, America Street, Growing Up Ethnic in America, What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest, I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion, Between Mothers and Sons, Arab Detroit; Introductions/Forewords to: Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry: Expanded Anniversary Edition, Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School, Again for the First Time, Clowns and Rats Scare Me, Speak a Powerful Magic: Ten Years of the Traveling Stanzas Poetry Project, Expository Composition: Discovering Your Voice, Name Them―They Fly Better: Pat Hammond's Theory of Aerodynamics, Awakening the Heart, Second Edition: Teaching Poetry K-8, Wishbone: An American Odyssey in Asia)
• Sara Saab (story: Salt and Cement and Other Denials; SF/horror stories in magazine issues: The Dark #6 (Nov 2014) / #9 (Aug 2015) / #20 Jan 2017) / #44 (Jan 2019) / #48 (May 2019) / #73 (Jun 2021), Clarkesworld #110 (Nov 2015) / #115 (Apr 2016) / #132 (Sep 2017) / #156 (Sep 2019), Interzone #259 (Jul-Aug 2015), Apex #18 (Nov 2010) - Arab Muslim Issue, Black Static #42, Beneath Ceaseless Skies #220 (2017), Shimmer #42 (2018), Betwixt #5, Liminal Stories #3, Planet Scumm #14 Extinction Events; Contributor in short story anthologies: The Apex Book of World SF #5 (2015), Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird Wild World (2018), Shimmer 2018 The Collected Stories, The Year's Best Science Fiction 2018, The Long List Anthology 2018 #4 More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List, The Best of British Fantasy 2019, Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2020 #1)
• Omar Sabbagh (novels: Minutes from the Miracle City, Via Negativa; short stories: Y Knots, Mischief In Arcadia & Other Tales; essays: To My Mind or Kinbotes, From Sight through to In-Sight, Reading Fiona Sampson, Disciplined Subjects and Better Selves; contributor in: Citizens of Nowhere)
• Lubna Safi (essays: Barrier narrative)
• Omar Sakr (novel: Son of Sin; short stories in: After Australia, Meet Me at the Intersection, Kindred 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories, Kill Your Darlings (April 2016); memoir in: This Arab Is Queer; essay in: Fire Flood and Plague, Kill Your Darlings (July 2015), Meanjin 77.1 (Autumn 2018); contributor in: Admissions, Wildness Omnibus 2015-19, Griffith Review #56 Millennials Strike Back / #67 Matters of Trust, Meanjin 78.1 (Autumn 2019), Tincture Journal #11 (Spring 2015), Island Magazine #148, Rowayat # 1)
• Glenn Shaheen (flash fiction collections: Unchecked Savagery, Carnivalia; editor of: NANO Fiction 3.1 / 3.2 / 4.1 / 4.2 / 5.1 / 5.2 / 6.1; contributor in: Anthology of Etiquette and Terrifying Angels With Many Heads, Redivider 10.1
• Fargo Nissim Tbakhi (short prose: 12 Worlds Interrupted By the Drone; editor of: Worlds in Which Speculative Mix; contributor of SF fiction in: Apex Magazine Issue 121)
• Rewa Zeinati (satire: Nietzsche's Camel Must Die: An Invitation to Say 'No')