Saghi Ghahraman

Reza Farmand

Partow Nooriala

The Translation Project has been made possible through a grant from the LEF Foundation.

Poetry Magazine is a new site publishing poems and poetry ebooks of contemporary poets in Iran and elsewhere.

Read Payman Vahabzadeh’s introduction essay in the issue of West Coast Line he guest edited and for the most part translated in 2003 entitled, "Writing Rupture: Iranian Emigration Writing".

Notwithstanding the controversy over his writing quality, politics, or personality, Salman Rushdie’s lecture, Is Nothing Sacred, delivered at Herbert Read’s memorial in the hayday of the Fatwa, is a beautiful defense of literature.