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Poetry

• “Ibn Abd al-Aziz Sacrifices A Jewel,” by Saadi of Shiraz in The Loch Raven Review (poetry translation - Scroll down a bit after you click the link and you'll find this poem.)
• “The People in Gaza Keep Dying,” New Verse News (poem)
• “What Filled The Room,” Contrary (poem)
• “After Drought,” “This Sentence Is A Metaphor For Bridge #20,” and “Just Beyond Your Reach,” iamb: poetry seen and heard (poem)
• “A Dream In Three Parts,” BigCityLit (poem)
• “Because I Can’t Not Know What He Saw,” Voice Male Magazine (poem)
• From The Book of Sinera, by Salvador Espriu on Asymptote, (poetry translation)
• Five Poems by Salvador Espriu on EuropeNow (poetry translation)
• A Canticle Rehearsal in the Temple & The Waters Do Not Return, Even to Meribà,by Salvador Espriu, on Plume (poetry translation)
• “Thank You For Thinking It,” ANMLY (poem)

Prose

• “The First Time I Told Someone,” Solstice (essay)
• “The Lines That Antisemitism and Racism Draw,” Unlikely Stories (essay)
• “Towards A Discussion of Male Self-Hatred,” The Good Men Project (essay)
• “The Longest Running Series in Queens,” LitHub (esssay)
• It Deserves And Should Command Your Attention, ArteEast Quarterly. (I was asked in the summer of 2007 to guest edit this issue on Iranian literature. Unfortunately, ArteEast edited out a selection The Teller of Tales that I decided to include, as well as the work of one or two of the other writers I originally included. I have not been able to find out why. The issue is still worthwhile, though, so I am including it here.)
• “Attar’s “Tale of Marhuma:” The Woman With a Manly Heart," in Modern Language Studies 46(2). Read my translation of Attar's poem and an accompanying essay here:

WATCH

“Do Not Wish For Any Other Life,” from T'shuvah

Owen Bloomfield's setting of “Do Not Wish For Any Other Life,” one of the sequences in T'shuvah, premiered on April 19, 2024 in Kitchener, Ontario in this performance by The___Experiment.

Trembling/Light

The singer Ayelet Rose Gottlieb found my poem "Light," which was originally published in The Silence Of Men, on the internet and asked her record company to contact me to see if I'd be willing to let her use it on an album she was doing with her group Pneuma. I said yes, of course.

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. While this was not the first time I spoke publicly as a survivor, it was the first time I made the connection between that aspect of who I am and my politics.

Reading from T’shuvah at the 2023 New York Poetry Festival

Launch Video for Words For What Those Men Have Done

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. The publisher was kind enough to let me record this video for the event.

Featured Reading for Rimes Of The Ancient Mariner

LISTEN

Part 1 of "As If It Were Real," on Queensbound

Queensbound is a collaborative audio project founded in 2018 by KC Trommer that seeks to connect writers across the borough, showcase and develop a literature of Queens, and reflect the borough back to itself. This is poetry for the people online and in public spaces.

Kayumars & Hushang from The Teller of Tales: Stories From Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

I made this recording of the stories of the first two kings in The Teller of Tales, Kayumars and Hushang, 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.

INTERVIEWS

Conducted by Catherine Fletcher for Green Linden Press

Interviews & Reviews — Green Linden Press

Green Linden Press

Conducted by Jaime Alejandro on Arts Calling

Conducted by Steve Harper for The Podcast Business Network

Conducted by Rachelle Escamilla on KKUP

Conducted by Melissa Studdard on Tiferet Talk

Richard Jeffrey Newman | Tiferet Talk with Melissa Studdard

Join us for a dynamic conversation about poetry, translation, and teaching with Richard Jeffrey Newman. Newman is the author of the poetry collection The Silence Of Men; the translator of two masterpieces of 13th century Iranian poetry, Selec­tions from Saadi’s Gulis­tan and Selec­tions from Saadi’s Bus­tan, and translator of The Teller of Tales, a portion of the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic. He is also co-translator, with Professor John Moyne, of A Bird in the Gar­den of Angels, a selec­tion of work by Rumi. As well, Newman serves as Per­sian Arts Festival’s Lit­er­ary Arts Direc­tor, co-curates the monthly Shab-e She’r (Night of Persian Poetry) at the Bowery Poetry Club, sits on the advi­sory boards of The Trans­la­tion Project and Jack­son Heights Poetry Fes­ti­val, and is a speaker with the New York Council for the Humanities. He is an Associate Professor of English at Nassau Community College. Tiferet Journal has recently published a compilation of twelve of our best transcribed interviews. To purchase The Tiferet Talk Interviews book, please click here.

BlogTalkRadioFire Engineering Podcast

Recorded in 2008 for The Jackson Heights Poetry Festival

REVIEWS I'VE WRITTEN

THE ARCHIVE

These essays date back to 1989, when I first started publishing on manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality. Some of what I say in these essays is dated; some no longer reflects what I think or believe; but you can also find here, however differently I would express myself now, my early attempts to articulate ideas that I have been writing about for the past four decades or so.