Sara Abou Rashed

Sara Abou Rashed is a Palestinian poet, speaker, and creator of the one-woman show, A Map of Myself. A former poetry fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, her work has been commended by the Forward Prize and was awarded the 2023 Hopwood Award for Poetry from the University of Michigan. Sara’s writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The LA Review of Books, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Wales, as well as 9-12 ELA curriculum from McGraw Hill and the anthologies A Land with a People, Heaven Looks Like US, and Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora. (Source)

Poems curated by Sara Abou Rashed

On this Land by Mahmoud Darwish

October 6, 2025

“On this land, is what makes life worth living: / on this land is the lady of the land, the mother / of beginnings and endings. She was named Palestine.” — Mahmoud Darwish