Tehran letter

این نامه رسان هم اندکی آسمان و چند ستاره و کمی احوال پرسی گذاشت کف دستم و پلاک چهل و نه را هی رفت و هی برگشت تا ببیند رودخانه ای که نیست کجا می ریزد ریخت وسط اتاق صدای پرنده ای که پشت پنجره نشست پنجره را باز کنی سطر دوم را می بینی […]

Alireza Abiz

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 […]

Iraj Ziayi

Iraj Ziayi was born in 1949 in Rasht, north of Iran. His family moved to Talesh, a small town on the Caspian Sea when he was 4 and Iraj spent his childhood in a beautiful environment surrounded by forest, mountain and sea. His family later moved to Isfahan where Iraj went to high school and […]