Standing on Earth

by Mohsen Emadi translated from the Persian by Lyn Coffin Poetry Paperback ISBN: 978-1944700003 In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting imagery and a child’s love of language. Lyn Coffin’s translations from the Persian allow Emadi’s poems …

El Poema | The Poem

In 1988 Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the execution of nearly 5000 political prisoners. Their bodies were dumped in mass graves at unmarked sites in Khavaran cemetery.”The Poem” is a short film about Khavaran; it is about human brutality in the name of religion and ideology. The film has been screened in …