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New Work

• EuropeNow: Five poems by Salvador Espriu, co-translated with Sonia Alland
  
• BigCityLit: A Dream in Three Parts
  
• Solstice: The First Time I Told Someone
  
• Contrary: What Filled The Room
  
• iamb:poetry seen and heard: After Drought, This Sentence Is A Metaphor For Bridge #20 & Just Beyond Your Reach
  
• Redux Extra: Humanity Is One
  
• Redux Extra: Sa’di of Shiraz: A Poet For Our Times
  
• Plume: Translations of two poems by the Catalan poet Salvador Espriu, with primary translator Sonia Alland
  
• Queensbound: Part 1 of “As If It Were Real” (click on the R line’s Elmhurst Avenue stop)
  
• Unlikely Stories: “What Will Not Let Itself Be Washed Away” & “Four Variations & A Theme”
  
• Piltdown Review: Numbers 1-5 from “This Sentence Is A Metaphor For Bridge”
  
• BigCityLit: Numbers 9-10 from “This Sentence Is A Metaphor For Bridge”
  
• Open:Journal of Arts & Letter: Number 24 from “This Sentence Is A Metaphor For Bridge”

from Words For What Those Men Have Done

• Voice Male Magazine: Because I Can’t Not Know What He Saw
  
• Redheaded Stepchild: My Brother’s Thirtieth Yahrzeit, My Grandmother’s Third
  
• Flatbush Review: Clean; Not Yet The Women They Would Grow Up To Be
  
• ANMLY: Thank You For Thinking It
  
• Shabdaguchha: I Still Don’t Know Where He’s Buried; You’d Better Finish Knitting: A Ghazal; The Mating of Rhino Beetles; Metaphors
  
• Unlikely Stories: I Gave You Back To Yourself As If I’d Never Touched You; Gender Politics

from my translation The Teller Of Tales

• Ekleksographia Wave Two: Zahhak

from ArteEast

• In the summer of 2007, I was invited to guest edit a special edition of ArteEast Quarterly focused on Iranian and Iranian-American literature. You can read the issue here.

Essays

• Modern Language Studies 46(2): Attar’s “Tale of Marhuma:” The Woman With a Manly Heart.
  
• LitHub: The Longest Running Series in Queens
  
• Unlikely Stories: The Lines That Antisemitism and Racism Draw
  
• The Good Men Project: Towards a Discussion of Male Self-Hatred

Reviews

• Of Antisemitism: Here and Now, by Deborah E. Lipstadt, in American Book Review
  
• Of Rubāiyāt: For The Martyrs of Two Wars, by Ruth Valentine, in American Book Review
  
• Of Inclined To Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry, edited by Hayan Charara, in American Book Review

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Trembling/Light
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s jazz ensemble Pneuma made a lovely video of their musical setting of “Light,” one of the poems from The Silence of Men. The piece is from their album, Who Has Seen The Wind?, which is well worth getting:

Claiming The Politics of My Survival
In March of 2018, in the aftermath of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and others, I was invited to give a talk during Nassau Community College’s Sexual Assault/Harassment Awareness Week about my experience as a survivor of childhood sexual violence.

Words For What Those Men Have Done was published in Canada, in 2017, by Guernica Editions. Unfortunately, I was not able to be in Toronto for the launch. This is the video I sent for them to play in my stead:

On November 30, 2016, I read from The Silence of Men and the newly published For My Son, A Kind of Prayer at (the now sadly defunct) NYC reading series Rimes of The Ancient Mariner:

Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women (Kasva Press 2016) is the first-ever anthology of international poetry specifically addressing the oppression and empowerment of women. I was fortunate to read at the inaugural launch event in April of 2016.

In March 2015, I read my work at the first International Conference on Masculinities in New York City:

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In 2006, shortly after The Silence of Men was published, I was invited to give a reading in Sacramento. I was unable to go, but the organizers were kind enough to allow me to send a recording of my reading.

I made this recording in 2008 for an online celebration of classical Persian literature, though I confess I do not remember who sponsored the event and I am unable to find any trace of it online. The recording is of my versions of the stories of the first two kings in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, Kayumars and Hushang.