Iran

Cheatsheet

“In my all-boys school they’re all dumber than me./ I sit in the back and read André Gide” | by Armen Davoudian, co-winner 2021 PI Prize

Arthur Kayzakian 

Photo by Andy Smith ARTHUR KAYZAKIAN is the winner of the 2021 inaugural Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series for his collection, The Book of Redacted Paintings, which was also selected as a finalist for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. He is the recipient of the 2023 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment …

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A Room of My Own

by Naghmeh Zarbafian: A finger is in between the blinds, / reaching out for the feathery tone of snow 

Mimi Khalvati

Poetry International 7/8
“Come Close”
“Overblown Roses”