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Niloufar Talebi

Niloufar Talebi is an author, award-winning translator, interdisciplinary artist, and producer.

By Niloufar Talebi:
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Fiction
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Classics in Translation
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Graphic Novels, Culinary Books, & Children’s Literature
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Poetry, Hybrid Works, Anthologies
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction

Recent Articles

  • Imagined Histories: Editors’ Note
    By Kiran Bath, Megan Pinto

    What has been told, what has been withheld, what might yet be written differently?

    Imagined Histories: About the Art
    Interviews
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Devyn Mañibo

    An interview with Devyn Mañibo

    Carry On
    Poetry
    By Jordan Ahmed

    On every grave, for saint or for sinner, grows a green garden

    Three Poems by Suvendrini Lena
    Poetry
    By Suvendrini Lena

    I grow, I decay, darkness comes, lightness comes

    Two Poems by Susan Nguyen
    Poetry
    By Susan Nguyen

    We chase each other through the murmuration.

    Five Decades Dreaming in Diaspora
    Poetry
    By Nyingv Jae Saechao

    auspicious tree roots
    Rather than waste energy
    told a new story

    Erem and the House of Heritage
    Fiction
    By niyati

    What lies on the land between this life and that death?

    Lewat Rotterdam Tengah Malam | Passing through Rotterdam on a Night Train
    Poetry
    By Ni Made Purnama Sari

    aku laju ke masa yang nun | I continued to the time over yonder

    राई का दाना | The Mustard Seed
    Poetry
    By Monika Kumar

    राई का दाना इतना छोटा होता है
    The seed of the mustard is so small

    The Burning of Macabebe
    Poetry
    By JoAnn Balingit

    A triptych

    A Translation (1975)
    Poetry
    By Catherine Chen

    When the fire mouths Oh Oh Oh I know what it means.

    Then the Lake Shifts
    Poetry
    By Alycia Pirmohamed

    the peaks of this memory
    sharpen

    a pre-golden war garden
    Poetry
    By Alissa Tu

    is there majestic blood coursing through my veins?

    Call for Submissions: Open City
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

    An open call for journalism on Asian immigrant and Muslim communities

    If They Had Named Me Marion
    Poetry
    By Jia-Rui Cook

    But I came into the world with this full head of hair.

    Ode to ប
    Poetry
    By April Lim

    How your sound fills/ pockets.

    Write in Blood
    Poetry
    By Yahia Lababidi

    The punishment of the oppressor is that they are denied poetry.

    I didn’t apologize to the well
    Poetry
    By Alexa Luborsky

    I lowered into the well—/ consented to living as someone else for a while

    A Korean Woman Walks Into a Bar in Chicago
    Poetry
    By Sara Verstynen

    I am here. I am walking/ as a person, breathing.

    Two Poems by Rona Luo
    Poetry
    By Rona Luo

    “How To Evaluate A Family Genealogy” and “Men of Might”

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