Siham Karami Poetry Links + Interviews

Grand Little Things (3 poems)

Maria W. Faust Sonnet Competition prizes: 2022 “Written in Light” (p.23), 2020 “The Worth of August,” 2014 “Rain Trance” (not published on the website, but in String Poet below)

Autumn Sky (each poem a separate link): Sometimes It Takes a Storm, The Year of the Dragon, Gently Still Finding You Between, My Heart is an Extremity, The Buoy

SWWIM: Delivery (nominated for and accepted in the Orison Anthology)

Off the Coast

South Florida Poetry Review: The Body’s Hospitality (scroll down for poem)

Orchards Poetry Feature  June 2017 (several poems plus interview)

Interview on Animal Heart Press

More on Animal Heart Press: Feline Nativity, Microfilm featuring my poetry and photography, My Reading of 3 poems from my book, Ghazal Ode to the Buzz, poem In the Interim

Sukoon: “The Word for Dawn”

Alabama Literary Review:
“Unspoken”

Innisfree Journal: Labor Day

Mobius: The Journal of Social Change: Somalia (nominated for Pushcart prize)

Peacock Journal: Three Poems

Ekphrastic Review Starry Night Anthology (pdf): “Resurrection” (p. 24)

Right Hand Pointing:
New Hampshire
Thirteen

Newer in Mezzo Cammin

Poems in Mezzo Cammin “My Lowered Eyes” (a rondeau), “Aubade”, and “From Threads of Dust” (a rondeau)

Poems in Unsplendid in an invented form “Good Housekeeping” and “By the Dawn’s Early Light”

Literary Mama: “Happy Mother’s Day” (also in same invented form that uses only the letters in the title in the same frequency as in the title)

Poems in String Poet Spring 2014 “Distanced” (a sonnet), “Over Puget Sound,” “Touching Down in Paris,” and “Tempering” (a villanelle)

Poems in String Poet Winter 2012 “Rain Trance” (Maria W. Faust sonnet contest) and “Nautilus” (a sonnet)

From the Blue Minaret:
“The Sounding Heart”

Amsterdam Quarterly Review: Notes from the Isle of Langerhans

Hobo Camp Review: Hovland, Minnesota, Three Poems (“It Burns, It Replenishes,” “It Goes On Shining,” “Once Upon a Time in Northwoods, Minnesota”)

Poems in Loch Raven Review (several poems)

New Verse News: Letter to Asma Al-Assad, Hello Aleppo, Don’t Call It a Coup, Just Sing Tra-la-la, After the Catastrophe

Shot Glass Journal: Gardening Backwards, Shopper’s Enlightenment (same link page 2)

Better than Starbucks: Love is Hell

The Hypertexts (several poems)

Poems in Wordgathering (2 poems)

The Lavender Review: Who I Am, Bird of Paradise

Sonnets in 14 by 14

Print Poetry Publications

Smartish Pace: “The Sum of Time” (3rd place, Beulah Rose Contest)

Think Journal: 2021 “Götterdämmerung,” “Next Time with Feeling;” 2015 “Aware,” “Control,” “Mug Shot, after the Sting”

Able Muse: “In the Louvre,” “Portrait of Her Hands”

The Comstock Review: “Lawnmowing in America”

Orison Anthology: “Delivery”

Tiferet Journal: “Faith” (Tiferet Tifs, short prose)

Presence, a Journal of Catholic Poetry: “Angels”

Third Wednesday: “Survival of the Fittest”

Naugatuck River Review: “Edna Hong’s Bread” (semifinalist, NRR Narrative Poetry Contest)

The Turnip Trucks: “Bodies” Issue: “Brokedown Vertebrae Blues,” “Convalescence” – “Animals” Issue: “Ladykiller,” “Elephant Dreams”