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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 • Forough Farrokhzad Folio |

Gaze Ghazal

By Farnaz Fatemi

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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.

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