Born in Isfahan and raised in Los Angeles, Arash Saedinia is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, curator, archivist, and educator. At MacDowell in 2023, he translated Forough Farrokhzad’s Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season from Persian into English. At present he is at work on a book of his own poems.
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
The Bird Is Mortal
my heart is sorrow sickmy heart is sorrow sicki go to the porch and draw myfingers on night’s taut skinthe lights of relation are darkthe lights of relation are darkno […]
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
I Will Again Greet the Sun
to the sun i will again give greetingsto the brook that streamed within meto the clouds that were my long thoughtsto the aching growth of the garden’s white poplarsthat passed […]
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Gift
i speak of the terminus of nighti of the terminus of darknessand from the terminus of night i speakif you come to my house o kind one bring me a […]
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
The Wind Will Take Us
in my little night, alasthe wind has a tryst with the trees’ leavesin my little night, there is dread of ruinlistendo you hear the blow of darkness?i look as a […]