Published Translations

Poetry:

From Old Arabic to English

Al-Asadī, Bishr b. Abī Khāzim. "Charge Forward, Cows!" in "Making It Rain: Rain Deities in Pre-Islamic Arabia." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2023, p. 44.

Al-Khansāʾ. "How My Heart Grieves for Sakhr" and "Like Two Twigs of the Same Tree." Consequence vol. 14, no. 2, Fall 2022, pp. 120-121.

---. "Be Generous My Eyes." Y'alla: A Texan Journal of Middle Eastern Literature, vol. 2, Aug. 2022.

Al-Qais, Imruʼ. "I Wonder at an Archer from Banu Thuʻal" in "Making It Rain: Rain Deities in Pre-Islamic Arabia." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2023, p. 38.

Al-Sulaka, al-Sulayk b. "Al-Nahhām's Legs, Bearing My Weight" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

---. "Al-Nahhām's Nostrils, Galloping" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

Al-Şalt, Umayya b. Abī. "There Came upon the People a Year of Dearth" in "Making It Rain: Rain Deities in Pre-Islamic Arabia." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2023, p. 30.

From Classical Arabic to English

Al-Khuraymī, Abū Yaʿqūb. "They Said, When Baghdad Was Yet Untouched By Time's Sly Hand" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

Al-Maʿarrī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ. "An excerpt from The Unnecessary Necessities." Modern Poetry in Translation, vol. 1, 2022, pp. 57-63. [Republished online here]

---. "If Only I Could Refrain from Eating, and: You Think You Are a Man of Religion." The Massachusetts Review, vol. 63, no. 4, Winter 2022, pp. 698-699.

Al-Riyāshī, Muhammad b. Yasīr. "The Tablet's Theft Left My Heart Scorching" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

---. "Weep, Eye, Copious Tears That Flow" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

Burd, Bashshār b. "Haters Scorn Yet Bear the Shame" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

---. "I Join the Prayer" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

---. "Why Does Darkness Linger, My Friends?" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

Kushājim, Abū al-Fatḥ. "Elegising a Handkerchief." Emerging Translators Anthology, National Centre for Writing, 2022, pp. 18-21. Revised edition published in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

---. "Elegy for a Peacock" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

---. "Four Gastronomic Poems." Ancient Exchanges, Fall 2021.

---. "On a Miswak." Y'alla: A Texan Journal of Middle Eastern Literature, vol. 2, Aug. 2022.

---. "On Beeswax Candles" in "January Translation Challenge: Kushājim." ArabLit, 3 Jan. 2022.

---. "On the Oud: Three Selected Poems." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 6-13. [Republished on Medievalists as "The Oud: 'Never short of melodious song'," Feb. 2022.]

---. "When Will You Come to Eat?", Modern Poetry in Translation, vol. 3, 2022, pp. 72-78. [Republished on Vittles in "Four Poems on Food and Solitude," Apr. 2023.]

Ibn Abū Karīmah, Ahmad b. Ziyād. "I Barely Admired It When It Was Raided" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.

Ibn Muqlah. "I Treasured the Eye's Plea" in "Fallen Cities and Lost Handkerchiefs: Elegizing the Nonhuman in Classical Arabic Poetry." ArabLit Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2025.