In a New York Cafe, a Place for New Persian Poetry
Sholeh Wolpé reads at the Persian Arts Festival event in New York. She has books of her own works as well as one of translations of poetry by Forugh Farrokhzad./ New York - The traditional Persian evening of poetry, says poet and translator Richard Jeffrey Newman, involves old men reciting far older poems, the classics from Iran's literary past. New York's Persian Arts Festival offers more variety than that. So for a or night of poetry, on an unseasonably warm November evening in lower Manhattan, three women in their 30s and 40s took the ...
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