From Zayandeh Rud to the Mississippi by Mahnaz Badihian (OBA) Reviewed by Jennifer Langer This is a collection of poetry by Iranian born Mahnaz Badihian who has lived in the US for twenty-five years. Half the poems are translated from Persian and half written in English. The subtitle of the […]
Michael R. Burch Michael R. Burch is the poetry editor of The HyperTexts. He has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared over 400 times in literary journals and sundry publications in the USA, Michael R. Burch was last modified: May 8th, 2006 by mahnaz […]
Esmail…. For Esmail Khoi(Iranian poet in exile) I am talking to you Esmail When was the last time you had a sip From the Caspian Sea For dreams to come through Esmail by Mahnaz Badihian was last modified: May 3rd, 2006 by mahnaz badihian
BLACK DRESS by Julie Enszer Linen, long. Two slits on the side. I had one exactly like it, but it was purple with two patch pockets. One winter, I stored it until spring. It was lost. I snatch this black one off the rack. I want it mostly for memory. […]
Caroline Elkin’s book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction this year. The book looks at atrocities performed by British forces in Kenya in the 1950s. Caroline Elkin is an Assistant Professor of history at Harvard University. Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction […]
Esmail Khoi From Forough’s Grave, Translated to English by M. Alexandrian I’m returning from Forough’s grave, Dark. Esmail Khoi was last modified: April 26th, 2006 by mahnaz badihian
To President Bush, You Cannot Kill Our Brothers and Explode Our Mother’s Grave… Dear President Bush, How can you sleep at night? How can you look at your wife, your mother, your daughter and yourself and tell them you love them? You are lying to all of them. If you […]
Reza Baraheni is a fomer Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tehran, also former President of Canadian PEN. Below is a few poems form a book of poetry he published in English in 1976, God’s Shadow: Prison Poems is a collection of poems based on a period […]
Iran: The Next Neocon Target HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS Before the U.S. House of Representatives – April 5, 2006 Iran’s history is being ignored, just as we ignored Iraq’s history. This ignorance or deliberate misrepresentation of our recent relationship to Iraq and Iran is required to generate the fervor […]
Spirals, Tides, and Pennies in a New Age By Andrés Alfaro I am an admitted desensitized entity. Before I knew them my forebearers had already presented me with the delights of cemeteries and shovels. Spirals, Tides, and Pennies in a New Age was last modified: April 11th, 2006 by mahvand […]
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