POEMS

BIRTH OF A MURAL

(GOLDEN DRAGONFLY PRESS, 2023)

“With lush language, Hiba Heba’s poems navigate the macro and the micro, the ordinary and the extraordinary. This compelling collection condenses time, intertwines boredom and sorrow, and defies definitions, gender norms, and received ideas about faith.”

– Zeina Hashem Beck, Author of O and Louder than Hearts (winner of the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize)

 

 

POEMS

GRIEF IS A FIREFLY

(ORIGAMI POEMS PROJECT, 2021)

This micro-pamphlet comprises four poems that describe the healing properties of grief and the perfunctory nature of a world where renewal and destruction continue to co-exist.

“…a grandfather carefully trudges

over a speed breaker believing it is a

grave for all the graves left undug…”

~ from Penumbra