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Jennifer L Freed: Lessons

if you were that woman, then you, too,
would ask for repetition of bag and back and bank,
of leave and leaf and left and live

April 16, 2025 · 16 Comments

Kaveh Bassiri: Writing Persian

During the hostage crisis, when I was Albanian,
my history teacher conceded, “You’ve to be born into English
to be its rightful citizen.” I wanted to be an American poet,
but was a Persian settler.

May 20, 2021 · 6 Comments

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