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Richard
Jeffrey
Newman
Poet. Literary co-translator. Essayist. Proud community college professor. Proud to serve as a union officer. Survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Curator, First Tuesdays reading series.
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If You Read Rumi in English, Read This New Yorker Article
Jun 5, 2020
iran
& translation
& poetry
& islam
& sufism
Written by Rozina Ali, the article is called “The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi,” and it says something that Iranians I know have been
“Stand By Me” in Persian and English
May 31, 2020
iran
I was going through my old posts and I found this video from back in 2009, when demonstrations in response to Iran’s contested elections had the