Samir Atassi is an Arab-American poet who received his MFA from Ashland University in 2014. His work has appeared in various publications including River Teeth, Gloom Cupboard and Glint Literary Journal. He works as a restaurant manager and lives in Westlake, Ohio.
Samir Atassi
Samir Atassi: Three Rooms
We have learned to live on different sides of the world in the same tent. It feels as if we always knew how. My father’s coiled in the den, surrounded by knickknacks of struggle; pelts, sculptures of Navajo’s and Pueblo’s faces, musing in soft ancestral wood, their thirsty bodies straining in paintings to impale a […]
Samir Atassi
Samir Atassi is an Arab-American poet who received his MFA from Ashland University in 2014. His work has appeared in various publications including River Teeth, Gloom Cupboard and Glint Literary Journal. He works as a restaurant manager and lives in Westlake, Ohio.
Samir Atassi: Three Rooms
We have learned to live on different sides of the world in the same tent. It feels as if we always knew how. My father’s coiled in the den, surrounded by knickknacks of struggle; pelts, sculptures of Navajo’s and Pueblo’s faces, musing in soft ancestral wood, their thirsty bodies straining in paintings to impale a […]