About Roya Zarrin

Roya Zarrin was born in Aligoodarz in the Lorestan province of Iran. Her first book of poems, The Earth Needs the Lover’s Incantation, was a finalist for the Karnameh prize. Her third book, I Want to Swallow my Children, won the 2008 Khorshid prize, a new annual award for the best poetry book written by a female author.

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Kaveh Bassiri is the recipient of 2010 Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency. His poetry has won the Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award and is forthcoming in Mississippi Review, Harpur Palate, Tusculum Review, and Atlanta Review.

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It was the end of the sixth day,
horizons
ripened from violet shadows
to violets of light.
One was tired from the height of so much day and
the strait of so much night.

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