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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.zeinahashembeck.com/new-page daily 0.75 2026-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f3ad8fe4b0adcf03f8efce/1645581459834-NRHTWO5UQ2XQZXTM64BE/O+for+website.jpg Books - O (PENGUIN BOOKS, 2022) “Western readers often consume books by international authors like perverse anthropologists, scanning for a word or phrase that buttresses their ill-informed preconceptions, cudgeling a writer’s meticulously woven lyric into vapid social generality. Zeina Hashem Beck’s O rebukes this tendency explicitly in an early poem: “I’m tired of metaphors about peace. // I prefer dark chocolate in the morning, / & a good window.” And then throughout the collection, she rebukes it with her truly undeniable poems—rhymes braid across multiple languages, intricate forms fracture under the weight of their subjects. In one unforgettable piece, a subtle incantation ends on the name of a flower that looses itself across the page like so many petals. Unforgettable, undeniable—these are the words I keep coming back to with O. Anyone who reads it in earnest will emerge better made.” —Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f3ad8fe4b0adcf03f8efce/1645582739726-JCHBN2OGIW5UXHZ4HZER/Louder+than+Hearts+Book+Cover+%28front%29.jpg Books - Louder than Hearts (2017) Winner of the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize “I don't know how Zeina Hashem Beck is able to do this. Her poems feel like whole worlds. Potent conversations with the self, the soul, the many landscapes of being, and the news that confounds us all - her poems weave two languages into a perfect fabric of presence, with an almost mystical sense of pacing and power. "You Fixed It" might be one of the masterpieces of our time. There is death, loss, disaster, but more importantly, an exquisite sense of reviving language and poetry -- anthems of life, love, respect, abounding. Everything Arabic we treasure comes alive in these poems - readers will feel restored to so many homes, revived, amazed. Zeina Hashem Beck writes with a brilliant, absolutely essential voice.” ~ Naomi Shihab Nye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f3ad8fe4b0adcf03f8efce/1645585849798-EAS1D70LJZSA2EFOZKSP/There+Was+and+How+Much+There+Was+Book+Cover.jpg Books - There Was and How Much There Was (2016) “Whether drawing on myth or fairytale, or writing directly from women’s experience, these are powerful poems by a new writer with a remarkable gift for storytelling.” Carol Ann Duffy There Was and How Much There Was was included on the Poetry School's Books of the 2016 list, praised for its "fearless reflections on female body politics." It was also selected among Best of the New Year 2017 on The Washington Independent Review of Books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f3ad8fe4b0adcf03f8efce/1645588020555-CNCH8XIO744R57TJ3DEI/There+Was+Performance+Poster.jpg Books - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f3ad8fe4b0adcf03f8efce/1645586936381-DUYGO8T8C4SXGR7WLUXO/3arabiSong_cover-1200h.jpg Books - 3arabi Song (2016) Winner of the 2016 Rattle Chapbook Prize "Rarely does poetry seem to matter more than while reading the work of Zeina Hashem Beck--a poet of immense talent and passion who is clearly at the beginning of a long and important literary career. 3arabi Song is a book of displacement and connection, of gravity and grace, and the human music that binds us all together. It's a tribute to the Arab world and Arab singers, to refugees and refusal, to hope and home, to sorrow and song. Like no other collection we've read, these poems feel absolutely necessary. This little book will break your heart then mend it." Rattle Editors "From the beginning, 3arabi Song opens the broken world and finds the shards beneath shimmering with beauty and hope. These poems ache with the music of reverie, balm for a torn country where grief and loss are as common as prayer. War, ritual, songs on the radio, lovers, friends and family all echo in this haunting collection, the poems calling us to return over and over, to endure, like the mother who urges, “Don’t be afraid, just sing it,”.../“Sabbouha means Sabah means morning,”/she said. Not mourning with a “u.” Yes, that thing that shines.” Dorianne Laux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f3ad8fe4b0adcf03f8efce/1645587346656-3J0GADGS6JFKAQNDD466/To+Live+in+Autumn+Front+Cover.jpg Books - To Live in Autumn (2014) Winner of the 2013 Backwaters Prize "A series of 45 vignettes exploring life in Lebanon’s capital, it succeeds in evoking the city more powerfully than many full-length novels." The Daily Star "Zeina Hashem Beck's To Live in Autumn is honest and passionate. I also get the sense that no one but she could have written it. That's not only because so many of her poems turn on Beirut, a city Hashem Beck clearly knows in intimate detail, but also because her lines often emit, seemingly effortlessly, the lovely musk of Arabic spiced with French. That Hashem Beck, even when she's writing from a student's point of view, manages to avoid the obvious tropes makes things even more interesting. I thought- judging this contest- "This person is going to be an important writer." And I still think so. Read her book and you will too. 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