Arman Salem is the winner of the 2026 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is currently working on a book of the teachings of the eighth-century Sufi mystic Rabi’a al-’Adawiyya, forthcoming from the Modern Library in spring 2028.
Invisible Cities
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Upon reviewing the Edouard and Maurice Sandoz collection in Lausanne
Of course you remember Mariettethe marionette who loved to breakher routineshe was living in Inwood along the longdefunct IRTshe was picking sandalwood foundat a store out in Francecarrying it far […]
Invisible Cities
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Zillow listings in an oil town
The thing is I understandthe dangers of plotting this farin advance a matryoshkaof crews repairing the secondsinkhole on I-80 New Jerseya bunch of trashI met my wifein Dyrrachium while smokinga […]
Poetry
Winter 2023
Eight Poems
Tonight I plan to meet With the moon With the full moon Seven minutes Left till seven. I am a simple teacher From Kaleh Gun village I have twenty-four students […]