Poetry

Here are some of my favorite contemporary Persian poets:

• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales
• Forugh Farrokhzad
• Siyavash Kasrai
• Fereydoon Moshiri
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• Nader Naderpour
• H. A. Sayeh
• Sohrab Sepehri
• Ahmad Shamloo
• Nima Yushij

Here are some of my favorite classical Persian poets:

• Ferdowsi
• Hafez (Here's another link)
• Khayyam
• Mowlavi (Rumi) (Here's another link)
• Rudaki
• Sa'di

Here are some of my favorite international poets:

• Phillip Appleman
• Robert Frost
• Robert Hayden
• Langston Hughs
• David Ignatow
• D.H. Lawrence
• Federico Garcia Lorca
• Pablo Neruda
• William Shakespear
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Here's a list of my own poems.