POEMS
“So Sick”, forthcoming, North American Review, 2026
“Camila’s Incision”, forthcoming, Poetry Northwest, 2025
“I-11, Islamabad”, forthcoming, 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, america is the guest room I never settled in, 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", forthcoming, 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.