Farnaz Fatemi is an Iranian American poet and writer as well as the Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate. Her book, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر (The Kent State University Press, 2022), won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, selected by Tracy K. Smith. She is a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems and lyric essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Academy of American Poets (poets.org), No Tokens Journal, Nowruz Journal, Pedestal Magazine, and elsewhere. Find more at farnazfatemi.com.
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Hair in the Wind
The Kenyon Review · “Hair in the Wind” by Farnaz Fatemi I scissor a self apart.Holdfastness, a force to be reckoned with.In my paralysis, I’m as criminal as the regime.Hair […]
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Gaze Ghazal
The Kenyon Review · “Gaze Ghazal” by Farnaz Fatemi I’ve tried to stop, but I continue to appraise myself.One prone to comparing herself to others. She stays myself.I can point […]