Edward Salem is the author of Monk Fruit (Nightboat, 2025) and Intifadas (Sarabande, 2026), which was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, selected by Hanif Abdurraqib. Salem’s poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The Drift, and elsewhere. His fiction can be found in Granta and BOMB. He is the founding codirector of City of Asylum/Detroit, a nonprofit that provides safe-haven fellowships to writers and artists in exile who have been persecuted for their work.
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Greetings To
At last each finds himself alone to face his destiny. No children, no spouse, no God no devil are available or able to render help. I see life as a […]