The Sound of Souvenir
1 The novel starts on the stairs of a passenger bus, coming to contact with Anis’ shoes out of the blue. We have to be […]
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Three Poems by Leila Kordbache
Born in 1981, Tehran, Leila Kordbache is a published poet and literary researcher. She has over ten published volumes of poetry and monographs on Persian […]
Five Poems by Bijan Elahi
Bijan Elahi (July 7, 1945 – Dec 1, 2010) was a modernist poet and a prolific translator of T.S. Eliot, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Michaux, Friedrich […]
Three Poems by Ali-Akbar Sadeghi
A graduate of the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Ali-Akbar Sadeghi is one of the most prolific and successful Iranian painters and artists. […]
Three Poems by Hossein Nazari
i carry
dismembered memories
in my suitcase
fractured dreams
in my skull
Three Odes to Spring: Shafiei Kadkani
Pari Azarm Motamedi is an Iranian artist now living in Canada whose devotion to literature is manifest in her paintings. Her practice and interests for […]
The Gawky Schizoid
A poem by Mona Jafari Scrambling in drying concrete as her bed every night, Pray tell, what comes of a face that can never see […]
As Though Someone Is Laughing at Little Girls!
Written by Mehrnaz Shirazi-Adl From the short story collection That’s Perhaps the Only Way (شاید تنها راهش همین باشد) – Qatreh Publications, 2016. Translated from the Persian […]
Vartan: a poem by Ahmad Shamlou
Today is Ahmad Shamlou’s 92nd birthday, a blessed occasion to read one of his finest poems: “Vartan didn’t Say a Word” is a political poem […]
Sadness – Ahmad Shamlou
“They smell your mouth/ in case you said, ‘I love you.’ “