Born in Iran, Mohsen Emadi is the award-winning author of four verse collections and numerous poetry translations; the poems featured in the print edition of the January issue come from a collection called “Standing on Earth.” Emadi is the founder and manager of Ahmad Shamlou’s official website and The House of World Poets, a Persian anthology featuring more than five hundred international writers. He currently lives in Mexico City.
Los Angeles. Phoneme Media. 2016. 89 pages.
Mohsen Emadi writes a poetry of borders and crossings (WLT, March 2015, 42–44). His poems lay bare a world dissected by boundaries both real and im...
Photo by ~dgies/FlickrBilingual recordings by the author and Lyn Coffin
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Death is when the heart does not beat and the clock beats. Love is when the heart beats and the...