Four Poems after Forough’s “Another Birth”

Souri Ahmadlou is an Iranian poet whose work has been published widely in Iran. She is currently a staff writer for Jahan-e Ketab — a national magazine that publishes book reviews — and continues to contribute to literary magazines. Ahmadlou’s first collection of poems, The Cherry Ladder Does Not Turn the Moon Red, was published in 2007 by Ahang-e Digar Press. Her second collection, A Stone for a Game of Seven-Stones, was published by the Morvārid Press in 2020.

Morteza Dehghani is a poet and literary translator writing in English and Persian. He currently lives in Ontario, Canada, and teaches at the University of Waterloo. Morteza is the author of Send My Roots Rain (North Waterloo Academic Press, 2014), The Whale Who Breaks the Skin of Morning (in Farsi, the Maya Press, Tehran, 2016), and After Rumi and the Flute Concerto (in Farsi, Fasl-e Panojm, Tehran, 2019).