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Sara Abou Rashed is a Palestinian poet and speaker. Her writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The LA Review of Books, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Wales, and McGraw Hill Language Arts curriculum, among others. Sara earned her MFA at the University of Michigan and recently started her PhD at Ohio State University. Her debut collection, Keys to Return With, is forthcoming from Diode in Fall 2026.
  • It Comes Down to This

    It Comes Down to This

    In austere, fragmented lines, Sara Abou Rashed’s poem “It Comes Down to This” memorializes Shireen Abu Akleh and the hundreds of Palestinian journalists murdered by the Israeli state.