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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
& 2020
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
“My Companion’s Scent Seeped Into Me” - National Sa’di Day
Apr 21, 2019
translation
& jewish
& 2019
Today is National Sa’di Day, and I’ve been thinking about one of my favorite bits of verse from his Golestan: I held in my bath a perfumed piece of
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