S.M. Badawi is an Arab American poet and teacher whose work has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cream City Review, Orange Blossom Review, and many other journals. Her poetry has been featured in Poetry Daily and has been nominated for Best of the Net, the Nina Riggs Poetry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. She is a Tin House workshop alumna and has received fellowships and awards from Summer Literary Seminars and Florida Atlantic University. She can be found on Twitter @smbadawi.
Content by S.M. Badawi
Poetry,
When I Dream of Motherhood
every origin story comes with a warning
once upon a time
there were sons writing the language of worship
Poetry,
I am haunted
I recite prayers and my ancestors respond, there is no good, no evil only sand where language fragments and clumps when salt rushes to meet it