Publications
Additional Articles
“The Taste of Home: Food Themed Poetry with Refugee and Immigrant Students,” Teachers and Writers Magazine. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2016
“Writing through Trauma: Inside a Person’s Heart: Finding Solace from Stories and Poems,” Teachers and Writers Magazine. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Spring 2013, Vol. 44 / No. 3. (Reprinted in Diving into the Moon: The National Storytelling Network Healing Stories Alliance Magazine, 2015).
“Stories of Arrival: A Poetry Project with Immigrant and Refugee High School Students,” Teachers and Writers Magazine. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Vol. 42 / No. 3, Spring 2011.
“A Storytelling Space for Sheltering Sorrow and Hope,” Storytelling Magazine, Spring, 2010.
“How Long Peace Takes: Writing about World Issues Using the Work of Naomi Shihab Nye,” Teachers and Writers Magazine. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Vol. 41 / No. 1, Fall 2009
Merna’s poetry has appeared in journals, anthologies and websites including
Making Mirrors: Righting and Writing Refugees, (anthology); WA 129: Poems Selected by Tod Marshall, State Poet Laureate, (anthology); Diving Into the Moon: The National Storytelling Healing Stories Alliance Magazine; Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Global Justice and on the web King County Library, System Wide Poetry Contest, winning poem: 2020; King County 4 Culture Poetry on Buses Writing Home Collection, winning poem; Split This Rock, featured poet