publications
In the Country of My Dreams...
SufiWarrior Publlishing
More than a chronicle of immigration, Children of the Roojme also
dramatizes the plight of those left behind in Lebanon as they endure
famine, war, plagues of locusts, epidemics and family rivalries."—
Joseph Geha, New York Times Book Review

"Elmaz Abinader's In the Country of My Dreams redeems the
achievements of a century that has struggled long and hard with
tolerance and inclusion. Daughter of immigrants from Lebanon, she
sings of their birthplace that she too claims as her own, and of the
American landscape she reverently loves and calls home. I salute the
arrival of these poems and their author for their expansive compassion
and their delicate enduring tenderness."
Khaled Mattawa
Other Cool Places

Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab American Poetry, Ed by Hayan Charara, University of Arkansas Press, 2008
Language for a New Century   ed by Nathalie Handal, WW Norton and Co, 2008
We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon ed by Kathy Engel and Kamal Boulatta, Interlink Publishing 2007
New Letters Anthology, ed Robert Stewart, 2005
Open Questions: Readings for Critical Thinking and Writing, eds Chris Anderson; Lex Runciman , Bedford/St. Martins, 2005
Sheherezade’s Legacy, ed. Susan Muaddi Durraj, Praeger Publications, 2004
Reading Rhetorically, 2/E, ed by Bean, Chapell, Gilliam: Allyn & Bacon, 2004
Drumvoices Revue Anthology, ed. Eugene Redmond, 2003


Poetry Everyday—Yemen 1993, Weber, Fall 2008
Grapeleaves, Good Housekeeping July  2008
Where the Body Rests, Wheelhouse, Winter 2007
Evacuations; Preparing for Occupation, Siėcle21, September 2007
The Art Gallery, SWITCHBACK ,Issue #6, Summer/Fall 2007
Featured Poet, Tea Party,  Summer 2006
Just off Main Street, Forum, English Teaching, July 2004
The Silence, New Letters , Fall 2003
Just Off Main Street, ZZYZYVA, and Spring 2003