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The Offing, 2017

Up the Staircase Quarterly, 2018

'portrait of my grand / father as another kurdish man i never met,' and 'Should They Die Before I Get My Hands on the Names,'

Forthcoming

One Poem, Blue Oak Press Rising Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets

'On October 13th, Kurdistan's Peshmerga Forces went under attack by the Iranian - backed Shia militias near Kirkuk,'

Foundry, 2018

'In the Winter, We Burn & They Mistake It for Warmth,' 'Things I Imagine My Father Hears in His Sleep,' and 'The One Color that the Afghan Flag Has that the Kurdish Flag Doesn't is Black,'

Radioactive Moat / Deluge, 2018

'Sestina for My Unborn Daughter Without the Family Album,'

Radius Lit, 2018

'when i leave, i wash and re empty what,'

New Delta Review, Matt Clark Editor's Choice Prize in Poetry, 2018

'Of His Names We Remember,' and 'organ origins,'

The Collapsar, 2018

'Ghazal Asking My Father the Questions,'

Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, 2019

News & Videos

Everything but Blood

I Am Not Traveling Alone

A poem from Detroit's 2017 youth poet laureate

UW Madison student one of two finalists

What I Know of the Mountains article

An Interview with Lumiere Review

No Service in the Mountains, a documentary by Eaverine Fu

From Rinsing, [twelve years apart]

The Shallow Ends, 2019

'Ghazal Saying My Father's Name Aloud,' and 'My Mother Told Me to Close My Eyes,'

Up North Lit, 2019

If My Father Gave Me the Words in His Language

Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2019

Every Time I Get a Cold Sore

decomP magazine, 2019

'Ghazal Forcing the Man,'

and 'there's no Kurdish translation or origin to the phrase, "no friends but the mountains"'

Platypus Press: Wildness Journal, 2019

'Love Litany'

Frontier Poetry, 2019

I LIKE TO KNOW THE WEATHER IN SULAYMANIYAH

Connecticut River Review Poetry Contest, Third Place 2019

Love Installs — The Head Technique

Great River Review, 2020

Love Installs — Limitations

The Adroit Journal, 2020

Two Poems

Poetry City, 2020

In Another Dream Where My Father Apologizes

Ruminate Magazine, 2020

WORDS I FIRST USED IN POETRY

Southeast Review, The Gearhart Poetry Contest Winner, 2021

Recent UW grad, an Afghan Kurdish poet, wins $90,000 scholarship for immigrants with exceptional potential

Poet Hajjar Baban Receives Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Hejar Baban xelateke din wergirt