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Marginalization has become a global phenomenon affecting a large number of social classes in which literature has played a major role in showing it. Several Yemeni academics have carried out the suffering of academic and living marginalization caused by the civil war in their poetry. Thus, this study explores an example of literary creativity resulting from the marginalization of a large number of Yemeni academics due to the Yemeni civil war. In two poems, Dr. Mubarak Al-Yaduomi expressed the suffering of the Yemeni researcher, first in obtaining and funding a PhD scholarship, and second in employing outstanding researchers in the academic field, which has been dominated by elite politicians and war-mongers. The first poem has dealt with how the brilliant research scholars suffer and struggle to be financially supported as they are due to get such rights, whereas the scholarships are maintained only for the relatives of the political leaders, the bribe-based applicants and those with high mediations even if they are neither due nor eligible to pursue higher studies. That is, the scale of justice has been gone awry in terms of distributing the rights to the right individuals. Actually, that is the pretty burden and suffering the true research scholars’ face on the journey of higher studies like MA and Ph.D. What is more, the second poem has depicted how those genius and talented Ph. D. holders have been marginalized, neglected and rather deprived from having academic positions in the lines of and based on their qualifications and specializations at the minimum level of deserved national rights, whereas the high positions have been gifted to the above-mentioned relatives, the bribe-based, etc. That is by all means, the intellectuals and academics have been badly suffering from such type of cruel and dead-ending marginalization.

Marginalization, scholarship, job future, academician, poetry.