Post by George DancePost by George DancePost by George DanceI've been reading the Other Voices International cyber-anthology,
which archives over 600 poets from around the world. Actually, in one
month I've managed to read only the 15 poets archived in Vol. 40.
I've definitely found a preference in that volume: Roger Sedarat and
his 6-poem selection, "The Prophet."
Letters to the Islamic Republic (Ohio UP), which won the Hollis
Summers Prize. His poems and translations have appeared in such
journals as New England Review, Poet Lore, and Iranian.com. A
recipient of scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a
St. Botolph poetry grant, he teaches poetry and translation in the MFA
program at Queens College, City University of New York."
As a sample of Sedarat's style, here's a selection from his poem,
The Prophet as Analysand
[...]
And the therapist said, “Think of it like
the rough draft of a poem, Haji,
just let your words escape without editing.
And Haji the poet cum prophet replied,
“Huffy Haji hid the day…”
“That’s John Berryman, Haji!” exclaimed the therapist.
“You're plagiarizing! Why do you feel the need to copy
when invited to speak for yourself?”
“Because,” replied Haji, “you’re only as sick
as your secrets.”
“Berrryman said that too!” Exclaimed the therapist.
[...]
plus a couple of stanzas from his ghazal,
Gazelle in a Ghazal
[...]
My Father cried his life was all a lie,
Perfect material for the ghazal.
As the lion will stalk its prey, the poet
Will seek to work his name in the ghazal.
[...]
Resisting the couplet’s will to define
Both constructs and deconstructs the ghazal.
[...]
In case it matters, I’ll tell you: my name
Is Haji; I live inside the ghazal.
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"The Prophet", Roger Sedarat
http://www.othervoicespoetry.org/vol41/sedarat/index.html
Ah, since a couple of people are interested in poetry here again,
suddenly, perhaps it may be a good idea to get this thread back to the
topic intended for it, the one that was intentionally derailed by
false allegations and the later setting the record straight period.
Thanks for reposting the link.
I might as well post the link to the anthology itself. There's more
tnan 600 poets represented here, something for every taste.
http://www.othervoicespoetry.org/
Hey, that's a pretty fantastic collection. A shame to see the so-
called poets here ignore it as they do, but that's their loss.
Here's the list... who knows, some of these poets might Google their
name, come here to have a look, and join us. Now that would be a
great, since we obviously have a severe shortage of worthwhile
participants here:
Ben Smith ‡ Charles Adés Fishman ‡ Christine De Luca ‡ Eqrem Basha ‡
George Dance ‡ George McWhirter ‡ Judy Halebsky ‡ Kiriu Minashita ‡
Linda Leedy Schneider ‡ Olimbi Velaj ‡ Richard Shindell ‡ Walid Saba ‡
Ziba Shirazi
Ahcene Mariche ‡ Chuck Brodsky ‡ Dee "Buckshot Dot" Strickland Johnson
‡ Emily K. Bright ‡ Ken McCullough ‡ Leonard J. Cirino ‡ Linda Albert
‡ Linh Dinh ‡ Niels Hav ‡ Ntsiki Mazwai ‡ Roger Sedarat ‡ Ryoko
Sekiguchi ‡ Takako Arai ‡ Tomaž Šalamun ‡ Valery Oisteanu
Bob Perelman ‡ Cath Koa Dunsford ‡ Chika Sagawa ‡ Dariusz Pacak ‡
Ibrahim Nasrallah ‡ John Amen ‡ Joseph Bruchac ‡ Luis Benítez ‡
Melissa Osborne ‡ Ram Krishna Singh ‡ Richard L. Provencher ‡ Sawako
Nakayasu ‡ Shameela Abraham ‡ Takashi Hiraide ‡ Tammy F. Trendle
Ario Elami ‡ Bruce Williams ‡ David Wilcox ‡ Denise Duhamel ‡ Eduards
Aivars ‡ Inara Cedrins ‡ Karen Douglass ‡ Margaret Bashaar ‡ Natasha
Kochicheril Moni ‡ Pam Brown ‡ Paul Bura ‡ Paul Hostovsky ‡ Rachel
Blau DuPlessis ‡ Rick Marlatt ‡ WisŁawa Szymborska
Cecilia Woloch ‡ Dan Waber ‡ Dorian Haarhoff ‡ Dr. Robyn Rowland AO ‡
Flora Brovina ‡ Jack DeWitt ‡ John Brandi ‡ Mammad Araz ‡ Maria Deyana
‡ Marianna Hofer ‡ Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar ‡ Nizar Kabbani ‡
Prabhatkiran Bose ‡ Renée Gregorio ‡ Steve Regan
Aram Saroyan ‡ Beau Hamel ‡ Diana Der-Hovanessian ‡Gerald McCarthy
‡Gregory Djanikian ‡ Halina Poświatowska ‡ Jean Narciso Bispo Moura ‡
Marilyn Rosenthal Rosenberg ‡ Patrice O’Neill & Maria Camillo ‡ Ricky
Rapoport Friesem ‡ Sarah Luczaj ‡ Sepideh Banihashemi ‡ Setareh Sabety
‡ Sharmagne Leland-St. John ‡ Yuri Andrukhovych
alcoholic poet ‡ Alexis N. Carra ‡ Andrew H. Oerke ‡ Adrian Grima ‡
Antoine Cassar ‡ George Murray ‡ John Hegley ‡ Lekshmy Rajeev ‡ Nancy
Johnson-Elami ‡ Nancy Shiffrin ‡ Negar Assari-Samimi ‡ Richard Jeffrey
Newman ‡ Sophie Hannah ‡ Stefan Hertmans ‡ Vivian Teter
Alan Gay ‡ Alev Adil ‡ Bernardo Atxaga ‡ Clare Azzopardi ‡ Fatima
Naoot ‡ Fred D'Aguiar ‡ George Szirtes ‡ Mahadai Das ‡ Meena Kandasamy
‡ Naim Araidi ‡ Pascale Petit ‡ Patrice Vecchione ‡ Robert Minhinnick
‡ Sandra Meek ‡ William Wall
Abbas Yamini Sharif ‡ Andy Brown ‡ Angela Gegg ‡ Bejan Baran ‡ Charles
Bernstein ‡ Chris Mansell ‡ Come Stand By My Window (500th Other
Voices' Entry) ‡ Jan Lauwereyns ‡ Kate Buckley ‡ Martha Deed ‡ Roya
Hakakian ‡ Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch ‡ Steven Robert Heine ‡ Tantra
Bensko ‡ Uddipana Goswami
Amy King ‡ Annie Finch ‡ Azarin Sadegh ‡ Bev Braune ‡ Brandy Stoner ‡
Erling Friis-Baastad ‡ George Mackay Brown ‡ James Galvin ‡ Jen
Hadfield ‡ Leslie Kreiner Wilson ‡ Maria Teresa Ogliastri ‡ May Ng ‡
rob mclennan ‡ Sina Moayedi ‡ Stephanie Bolster
Arezou Mokhtarian ‡ Cristina Castello ‡ Diane Ackerman ‡ Douglas
Pinson ‡ Elena Karina Byrne ‡ Fiona Sampson ‡ Hisashi Nakamura ‡
Jeffrey Ethan Lee ‡ John Row ‡ Laala Kashef Alghata ‡ Leanne Averbach
‡ Margaret Saine ‡ Rasma Haidri ‡ Ray McNiece ‡ Sophie Moleta
Amir Or ‡ Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda ‡ Coleman Barks ‡ Emanuel Xavier ‡
Felix Cheong ‡ Janice Ian ‡ Joy Harjo ‡ Luisa Igloria ‡ Mario Susko ‡
Myrna Amelia Mesa ‡ Natalie Diaz ‡ Pattiann Rogers ‡ Prince Mensah ‡
Stefi Weisburd ‡ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Ana Elsner ‡ Billy Collins ‡ Cati Porter ‡ Desi Di Nardo ‡ Dorianne
Laux ‡ Edessa Ramos ‡ Emma Neale ‡ Eric Nelson ‡ Levi J Attias ‡ Mary
Guckian ‡ Michael Lee Johnson ‡ Mukesh Williams ‡ PB Rippey ‡
Rethabile Masilo ‡ Tom Keene
Afshin Babazadeh ‡ Agron Tufa ‡ Clara Hsu ‡ Dan McManus ‡ Jens Fink-
Jensen ‡ Kemp ‡ Luljeta Lleshanaku ‡ Manouchehr Saadat Noury ‡ Mahnaz
Badihian ‡ Mirko Gashi ‡ Nafiss Nia ‡ Robab Moheb ‡ Sam Vaseghi ‡
Samsum Kashfi ‡ Shirin Razavian
Adeena Karasick ‡ David Lunde ‡ Diana Woodcock ‡ Hadi Khojinian ‡
Jennifer Maldonado ‡ Jeton Kelmendi ‡ Kellye Betancourt ‡ Marc Olmsted
‡ Natasha Turner ‡ Paige O'Neill ‡ Rira Abbasi ‡ Terry Henderson ‡
Ursula K. Le Guin ‡ Yun Wang ‡ Zinat al Sadat Pirzadeh
Aju Mukhopadhyay ‡ Andrew David King ‡ Babak Seradjeh ‡ Candy Tothill
‡ Collin Kelley ‡ Deanna Shapiro ‡ Jerah Chadwick ‡ Lucinda Clark ‡
mshairi ‡ Rahim Asgard ‡ Rich Ferguson ‡ Robert Rothstein ‡ Samira
Mohyeddin ‡ Silvia Favaretto ‡ Trenton Davis
ASCAFS ‡ Benjamin Estrada ‡ Brandon Cesmat ‡ B.M. Dzukogi ‡ Carol
Desjarlais ‡ Claire Beynon ‡ Cyril Wong ‡ Hassan Najmi ‡ Lucy Bucknall
‡ Matubuna Tahun ‡ Nicholas Y.B. Wong ‡ R. Purushothama Rao ‡ Tobi
Cogswell ‡ Uche Peter Umez ‡ V.M. Airu
Abdulwahab Mihoub ‡ Achy Obejas ‡ Jack Fulbeck ‡ Kamar Hamza ‡ Ken
Waldman‡ Mario Bellizzi ‡ Maurice Oliver ‡ Michael R. Burch ‡ Mimoza
Ahmeti ‡ Rita Odeh ‡ Rita Petro ‡ Ruth Daigon ‡ Tammy Ho Lai-ming ‡
Touria Majdouline ‡ Yashar Ahad Saremi
Ali Alizadeh ‡ Ali Zarrin ‡ Cynthia Bryant ‡ Elham Gheytanchi ‡
Farinaz Aryanfar ‡ Gary Freedman ‡ Luis Alberto Ambroggio ‡ M. Reza
Eslami ‡ Mahboudeh Shad ‡ Matthew Barraza ‡ Phillip Zhuwao ‡ Ron
Cervero ‡ Tina Ehrami ‡ Tracee Coleman ‡ Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
Alana Tanksley ‡ Arlene Ang ‡ Christine Hume ‡ Daniel Y. Harris ‡
Daniele Pantano ‡ D.H. Melhem ‡ Dimitris Lyacos ‡ Ellis Paul ‡ Hadi
Khorsandi ‡ Mahasti Shahrokhi ‡ Sepideh Jodeyri ‡ Steven Brewer ‡
Vernon Montoya ‡ Virgilio Rivas ‡ Yahia Lababidi
Andy N ‡ Eila Mahima Jaipaul ‡ Joel B. Peckham, Jr. ‡ Katayoon
Zandvakili ‡ Lindita Arapi ‡ Mana Aghaee ‡ Mandana Zandian ‡ Mimi
Khalvati ‡ Naanaam ‡ Sabri Hamiti ‡ Sheida Mohamadi ‡ Shin Kyong-rim ‡
Sholeh Wolpé ‡ silent lotus ‡ Young-Moo Kim
Alison Wong ‡ Andrew Demčak ‡ Bryan Murphy ‡ Chris O’Carroll ‡ Gabriel
Impaglione ‡ Gian Paolo Guerini ‡ Giovanna Mulas ‡ Hristo Mednikarov ‡
Kevin Patrick Sullivan ‡ Linzy Forbes ‡ Michael E. Stone ‡ Nikahang
Kowsar ‡ Paul Decelles ‡ Riina Katajavuori ‡ Sharon Esther Lampert
Attila the Stockbroker ‡ Dima Hilal ‡ Dimitris P. Kraniotis ‡ Fide
Erken ‡ J. Marcus Weekley ‡ Jerry Beale ‡ Jonka Hristova ‡ Kostas
Hrisos ‡ Laurence Overmire ‡ Morgaine ‡ Naia ‡ Uldis Bērziņš ‡ Ulrike
Gerbig ‡ Üzeyir Çayci ‡ Wanda D. Campbell
Ashraf Osman ‡ Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore ‡ Dr. Amitabh Mitra ‡ Duane
Locke ‡ Jeffrey Spahr-Summers ‡ Jose Antonio Cangco ‡ Kyoko Uchida ‡
Maria Haeri ‡ Monica E. Smith ‡ Nora Nadjarian ‡ Prince Odimegwu
Onwumere ‡ Pamela K. Taylor ‡ Sally Ball ‡ Sherry Chandler ‡ Yakov
Azriel
Abdullah Konushevci ‡ Basri Çapriqi ‡ Edi Shukriu ‡ Flutura Açka ‡
Gretti Izak ‡ Ivón Gordon Vailakis ‡ J.C. Todd ‡ John Pule ‡ Leila
Montour ‡ Lisa Suhair Majaj ‡ Nan Byrne ‡ Pouran Farokhzad ‡ Roger
Aplon ‡ Vorea Ujko ‡ Wyn Cooper
Ala Riani ‡ Arif Ay ‡ Chika Unigwe ‡ Ellen Bass ‡ Etel Adnan ‡ Gerald
England ‡ Jirí Cêch ‡ Kristina Marie Darling ‡ Laurynas Katkus ‡ Max
Wolf Valerio ‡ Mevlut Ceylan ‡ Patrick B. Osada ‡ Phil Kawana ‡ Simon
Harrison ‡ Terry Jacobus
Aashish Ameya ‡ Alan Jefferies ‡ Alireza Behnam ‡ an'ya ‡ Eddie Tay ‡
E. Ethelbert Miller ‡ Heng Siok Tian ‡ Iain Britton ‡ Jan Fortune-Wood
‡ Kerry Shawn Keys ‡ liquid mouse‡ M Alam Azaad ‡ Marina Taitt ‡
Noriko Mizusaki ‡ Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Alamgir Hashmi ‡ Alice Lenkiewicz ‡ Cahit Zarifoglu ‡ Christopher
Kelen ‡ Kelly Young ‡ Kim Downs ‡ Liz Hall-Downs ‡ Michael Paul
Ladanyi ‡ Nnorom Azuonye ‡ Raul Maldonado ‡ Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper
‡ Uche Nduka ‡ Unoma N. Azuah ‡ Usha Kishore ‡ Vejea Jennings
Abdel Wright ‡ Changming Yuan ‡ Christopher Douglas Hunter ‡ Dr.
Ernesto Kahan ‡ Elizabeth Kate Switaj ‡ John Tiong Chunghoo ‡ José
Ferreira ‡ K.M. Dersley ‡ Liesl Jobson ‡ Marie Lecrivain ‡ Nimah
Nawwab ‡ Paul Sutherland ‡ Tolu Ogunlesi ‡ Ursula T. Gibson ‡ Wolf
Larsen
Andro Hakim ‡ Bam Dev Sharma ‡ Eric Ashford ‡ Jessica Moyer ‡ kari
edwards ‡ Kim Nam-jo ‡ KRZMa ‡ Les Wicks ‡ Margot Van Sluytman ‡
Mikaylah Simone ‡ misty santana ‡ Melanie Simms ‡ Tony R. Rodriguez ‡
Zen Oleary
An Do-hyon ‡ Ananya S. Guha ‡ Andrew Fusek Peters ‡ Azza El Wakeel ‡
Erin Monahan ‡ Elizabeth Smither ‡ Joop Bersee ‡ Ku Sang ‡ Midang (So
Chong-ju) ‡ Mzwandile Matiwana ‡ Nguyen Duc Batngan ‡ Rati Saxena ‡
Scott Wiggerman ‡ Tenzin Tsundue ‡ Thomas Hubbard
2ban ‡ Delfina Acosta ‡ Gabriel Gudding ‡ Katerina Rudcenková ‡ Ko Un
‡ Kobus Moolman ‡ Komninos Zervos ‡ Mammad Aidani ‡ Marty Matz ‡ Mehdi
Navid ‡ Moshe Benarroch ‡ Pat Boran ‡ Pittershawn Palmer ‡ Ricardo
Daniel Piña ‡ Teodoro Rubén Frejtman
Andrew Proudfoot ‡ Bill Taylor ‡ Elena Cohen Imach ‡ Francisco Azuela
‡ Helen Bar-Lev ‡ Humberto Garza ‡ Janna Eliot (Raqi Smith) ‡
Jeannette L. Clariond ‡ Johnmichael Simon ‡ Julio César Aguilar ‡
Ketaki Kushari Dyson ‡ Mario Meléndez ‡ Nino Soria de Veyra ‡ Sam
Piperato ‡ Zdravka Vladova-Momcheva
Damian McGregor ‡ Desmond Bailey ‡ Esiaba Irobi ‡ George Camilleri ‡
Harry Zevenbergen ‡ -jm ‡ Kianoosh Ramezani ‡ Luis J. Rodriquez ‡
Mariella Cassar ‡ Mong-Lan ‡ Robert Thomas ‡ Ron Haun ‡ Shane Allison
‡ Vicente Soria de Veyra ‡ Vihang Naik
441 Grammar School, St. Petersburg, Russia ‡ Carlos Felipe Hurtado ‡
Carolyn Dunn ‡ Cyrill Duneau ‡ Feven Afewerki ‡ Hooman Azizi ‡ Idris
Caffrey ‡ Justin Barrett ‡ Kojo Baffoe ‡ Larry Jaffe ‡ Lyn Lifshin ‡
Mike Austin ‡ Mike Scott ‡ Rochelle Ratner ‡ Shimanta Bhattacharyya
Babak Ghafari ‡ Batoul Nayer ‡ Berit Lundh ‡ David Owen ‡ Haale Gafori
‡ Kimberly Blaeser ‡ Lucia M. Ray ‡ Luis A. Lopez ‡ Maliha Hashmi ‡
Mattie Stepanek ‡ Michael José Morales Arriola ‡ Olutayo Osunsan ‡ Sam
King ‡ Taraneh Javanbakht ‡ V. Blanchard Singingeagle
1 Giant Leap ‡ Amegah Raymond ‡ Cher L ‡ Jody Kuchar ‡ Majid Mohiuddin
‡ Melissa Andrews ‡ Naveen Chandra ‡ Partow Nooriala ‡ Peyman
Vahabzadeh ‡ Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar ‡ Regine Heberlein ‡ Rodney Raphael
Yee ‡ Sohrab Rahimi ‡ Susan Mair ‡ Vappu Eerola Labbaci
Anthony Edmund Forte ‡ Birgitta Jonsdottir ‡ Cortney Davis ‡ Dina
Televitskaya ‡ Dinesh Adhikhari ‡ J D Ballam ‡ Joneve McCormick ‡ Kola
Boof ‡ Lasana Bandelè ‡ Milivoj Kostic-Kole ‡ Nan Geary ‡ Ron Hudson ‡
Saghi Ghahraman ‡ Todd Swift ‡ Wayne Amtzis
Anil Prasad ‡ Bryan Thao Worra ‡ Christiane Conesa Bostock ‡ Eric
Morris ‡ Farida Mihoub ‡ Jan Oskar Hansen ‡ Jean-Michel Maulpoix ‡ Joy
Goswami ‡ Karen Alkalay-Gut ‡ Kavita Jindal ‡ Roshanak Bigonah ‡ S.A.
Griffin ‡ Terry A. O'Neal ‡ The Welfare Poets ‡ Timothy Kaiser
Dee Rimbaud ‡ Durlabh Singh ‡ Janet Marie Rogers ‡ Jyotsana Prasad ‡
Leila Farjami ‡ Lys Anzia ‡ Mani Rao ‡ MariJo Moore ‡ Mary Anne
Mohanraj ‡ Paula Brown ‡ Rich Quatrone ‡ Roger Humes ‡ Ronnie Goodyer
‡ Sheema Kalbasi ‡ Teresia Teaiwa
A.D. Winans ‡ Alan Corkish ‡ Alessio Zanelli ‡ August Highland ‡
Aurora Antonovic ‡ C.E. Laine ‡ Chungmi Kim ‡ Daniela Gioseffi ‡ Jack
Micheline ‡ Mahmud Kianush ‡ Negar Hasan-Zadeh ‡ Renèe Sigel ‡ Susan
Millar DuMars ‡ The Botsotso Jesters ‡ Yoav J. Tenembaum
Forugh Farrokhzad ‡ fs ‡ Jimmy Santiago Baca ‡ Kevin Higgins ‡ Lisa
Zaran ‡ Mahmoud Darwish ‡ Mario Petrucci ‡ Maryam Hooleh ‡ Naomi
Shihab Nye ‡ Natasha Carrizosa ‡ Nathalie Handal ‡ Norman Cristofoli ‡
Seitlhamo Motsapi ‡ Tiffany Midge ‡ Wadih Sa'adeh
Dedicated to 1 Giant Leap: Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman, whose
work partly inspired this project.
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"Last Dream Today" performed live, some cool trumpet and saxophone
interplay between Riley Yielding & Sir Charles, video:
Post by George Dance--
Post by George DanceTwilight Girl, written by Will Dockery & Henry Conley, from the CD
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