چون حالت پریشان اقاقی با خوشه های آویخته چلچراغ سنبله های سپید در باد لرزان د رثانیه های مینا رنگ اتاق سکوت تو : آرامش غریب مرجان ها بود تنهایی من :اندوه تکامل مرواریدی درصدف گویی آب می پوشاند همه زمین همه شاخه ها ی سرگردان و فانوس ها همه گهواره ها را درد عبور […]
با تو در آمیزم از زیر گرده‌ات تهمینه بزنم بیرون نه در این دشت محزون درست وسط کوهستان پیکرت لای هیبت سنگ‌ها و گرگ‌های پنهان دهان با تو در آمیزم رخساره چو آتش گلگون کنم نه در این میانه‌ی مسکوت لای پریشانی ابرها لای شکل‌های غریب خاطرت لای اشتیاق خودم به این همه تلون تو […]
Masoud Ahmadi was born in 1943 in Kerman, a historical city in central Iran. He moved to Tehran when he was young and became a teacher of philosophy and Persian literature in Tehran high schools. A few years after the Revolution of 1979, he was arrested and spent four years in prison. After his release […]
Alireza Abiz is an Iranian poet, literary critic and translator. Abiz has written extensively on Persian contemporary literature and culture. His scholarly book ‘Censorship of Literature in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Politics and Culture since 1979’ is forthcoming by I. B. Tauris. He has so far published five collections of poetry in Persian: Stop! We must get […]
Fariba Shadloo was born in 1985 in Mashhad, Khorasan Province in Iran. She studied midwifery and worked as a midwife in Mashhad hospitals for a few years. She also worked for local newspapers and student journals as a literary editor. She then went on to study Persian language and literature. Her poetry has been published […]
Azita Ghahreman, was born in Mashhad in 1962. One of Iran’s leading poets, she has lived in Sweden since 2006. She is a member of the South Sweden Writers’ Union. She has published five collections of poetry: Eve’s Songs (1991), Sculptures of Autumn (1995), Forgetfulness is a Simple Ritual (2002), The Suburb of Crows (2008), […]
The prolific poet and translator, Ali Abdollahi was born in Birjand, South Khorasan Province in Iran in 1968. He has published four collections of poetry and written biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke and Gunter Grass, as well as translating more than seventy books on literature and philosophy. A gifted translator from German, Abdollahi has introduced […]
Bahareh Rezaei is a poet and literary critic who was born in 1978 in Roodsar, Iran. Having discovered a passion for poetry when she was very young, she began writing seriously when she was fifteen. Since then, she has worked as a literary editor, literary agent and as a judge in poetry festivals. She has […]
Mohammad Bagher Kolahi Ahari was born in 1950 in Mashhad, Khorasan. His first collection Above the Four Elements was published in 1977. He published six more collections of poetry. Kolahi has developed his distinct voice inspired by lyrical and elegiac traditions of Persian poetry combined with his story-telling talent. Many of Kolahi’s poems contain a […]
Born in Tehran- Iran, Shooka Hosseini started writing poetry in her teens and her first collection “ The Earth Was a Political Planet” was published in 2015 and won the second prize in Shamlou Poetry Awards in 2016. Shooka is one of the outspoken younger generation of female poets who writes boldly about all matters […]