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Temperance Aghamohammadi

Temperance Aghamohammadi is an Acolyte of the Exquisite and an Iranian  American poet and medium. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Passages North, Annulet, The Hopkins Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Hailing from the Northeast, she currently haunts the Midwest.

Forough Farrokhzad Folio

Summer 2025

Fetish III

By Temperance Aghamohammadi

My whole being is a dark chant . . . — Forough Farrokhzad, “Another Birth,” translated by Ismail Salami Haunted. By source. Seeking storm. Rain muddling the golden shallows of […]

Forough Farrokhzad Folio

Summer 2025

Fetish II

By Temperance Aghamohammadi

My whole being is a dark chant . . . — Forough Farrokhzad, “Another Birth,” translated by Ismail Salami Woke from the dream. In which I rambled into traffic. Took […]

Forough Farrokhzad Folio

Summer 2025

Fetish I

By Temperance Aghamohammadi

My whole being is a dark chant . . . — Forough Farrokhzad, “Another Birth,” translated by Ismail Salami Into narrowing. Worry I went. Holt in my crepuscular hour. As […]