Recent Online Work
Zahhak: We’d Need To Hear His Mother’s Story: Translation from Shahnameh.
I was interviewed by Marcia McNair for her BlogTalk Radio show The Power of Poetry.
Readings & Events
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Feb 28 10
- Jackson Heights Poetry Festival Workshop Mar 2 10
- First Tuesdays Reading and Open Mic Apr 6 10
- First Tuesdays Reading and Open Mic May 4 10
- First Tuesdays Reading and Open Mic
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Recent Posts
- The Tehran Symphony Orchestra in Geneva and Richard Taruskin’s “Common Fallacy”
- J Street and Poetry and Jewish Politics and Jewish Poets and Jewish Poetics and Holocaust Trivialization and Israel and Palestine and antisemitism and How Can Culture be a Tool for Change if You Won’t Let Culture do its Work? — Part 1
- Tehran University professor Massoud Alimohammadi assassinated in Iran
- Evangelical Christians Are Shocked – Shocked, I Tell You! – To Find Out Their Anti-Gay Rhetoric Might Encourage Uganda’s Push To Make Homosexuality A Capital Offense
- “The Myths of Liberal Zionism,” by Yitzhak Laor — I want to read this book
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Richard Jeffrey Newman
the poetry in the politics and the politics in the poetry
