Kaveh Bassiri is an Iranian American writer and translator. He is the author of 99 Names of Exile (Newfound, 2019), winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and Elementary English (Ahinga Press, 2020), winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. His translations have appeared in the Chicago Review, The Common, Denver Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Two Lines, Colorado Review, and Guernica. Bassiri is the recipient of a 2022–23 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a 2021 Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship, and a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Melancholia #6
Night, at a gallop of the dark horsea line of trees remains.In the four galaxies of the horseshoe,a line of trees was passing without a neigh.A severed vein opened its […]
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Melancholia #5
For in the heavens,the binding of my travel journal.I sowed with the sun,in the limbless alleys, in the doorways empty of women,I was scorched by the sun.It’s hard to picture […]
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Carnal
Appeaser of the body, restless ruler,the answer to all forms of anxiety!When the motion of an instinct gave birth to meand forces of the wind wrote my nameon the green […]