POEMS
Butched Bared Baritone, Mosaic II, Valerian, forthcoming, Sinister Wisdom, SWANA Dykes Issue, 2026
Camila’s Incision, forthcoming, Poetry Northwest, 2025
So Sick, North American Review, 2026
I-11, Islamabad, LAKEER Mag, 2025
Organism, THE BRAWL// , //OF EMPHASIS, THE DRUM, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2025
Ramadan Reconciliations, RHINO, 2025
on hunger & What is the “rule of law”, Michigan Quarterly Review, 2025
Al-Eashiq, Wisconsin People’s & Ideas, 2024
Dead Sea Dance for Sodom, Poetry Daily, Aug 2024
It Ends Before It Begins, diode, July 2024
dreamland, Emerge Literary Journal, Nov 2023
Threading, Adroit, Oct 2023 (nominated for Best New Poets)
Wedding Season, Foglifter Volume 8 Issue 2, Oct 2023
Moon and Sea, Beloved, Feb 2023
The Farmer and The Flood, Dead Sea Dance for Sodom, BAHR Magazine, Nov 2022
collecting words in attempt to keep them the same, The Offing, April 2022
PROSE
Beloved Counterpoetics: A Genealogy of Desire, ARCHIVE History Journal, June 2025
Notes on Hands, North American Review, 2025
Review for Late to The Search Party, Quarterly West, 2025
Syncopating Survival, NVP, UW Madison, December 2024
Review for Bluff, Adroit, September 2024
Diya Abbas is a first generation Pakistani poet, performer, and playwright from the Midwest.