Zeina Hashem Beck reads from her first three books—To Live in Autumn (2014), Louder Than Hearts (2017), and O (2022)—as well as from her forthcoming This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty (2027). Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon, feature throughout the work Hashem Beck shares. She also reads poems in forms including a triptych, a bilingual "duet" mixing English and Arabic, and "flipping" sonnets, which are read both top to bottom and bottom to top.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. To Live in Autumn. Omaha: The Backwaters Press, 2014.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. Louder than Hearts. Peterborough, New Hampshire: Bauhan Publishing, 2017.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. Louder than Hearts. Peterborough, New Hampshire: Bauhan Publishing, 2017.
Differs slightly from published version.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. Louder than Hearts. Peterborough, New Hampshire: Bauhan Publishing, 2017.
Differs slightly from published version.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. O. New York: Penguin Books, 2022.
Differs slightly from published version.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. O. New York: Penguin Books, 2022.
Differs slightly from published version.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. O. New York: Penguin Books, 2022.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. O. New York: Penguin Books, 2022.
From a forthcoming book titled This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty.
From a forthcoming book titled This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty.
Differs slightly from published version.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. O. New York: Penguin Books, 2022.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. "Southern Sonnet." Guernica, February 4, 2024. Web. Accessed 10 April 2026.
