Author, Translator, Creative. Educator. TEDx Speaker. Fulbright Scholar. Founder of Creative Intelligence. Forthcoming Ahmad Shamlou: Elegies of the Earth.
In this interview, Niloufar Talebi reflects on her engagements with Ahmad Shamlou, the challenges of distilling his vast oeuvre into a bilingual edition, and the possibilities and perils of bringing Persian modernist poetry into global dialogue today:
https://t.co/cUvcO8dfSG
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
– Aldous Huxley, quoted by @NiloufarTalebi, whose Elegies of the Earth is on my stack
Translator friends, check out the open submission call by @worldpoetrybook.
I have a title coming out soon with them (Elegies of the Earth: Selected Poems by Ahmad Shamlou).
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Attention Translators! @worldpoetryrev is open for submissions all of August!
For details on how to submit translated works, see their submission guidelines page here: https://t.co/fYXJ9ug0Em
Enjoy these excerpts from Ahmad Shamlou's ELEGIES OF THE EARTH, trans, from Persian by Niloufar Talebi, in Asymptote!
For the full excerpts, see here: https://t.co/dm9K1yHeh4
ELEGIES OF THE EARTH is out November 11, 2025, and available for pre-order at https://t.co/W1LePLXnlY
We're excited to announce more than $32 million in arts funding to organizations nationwide! Recipients include organizations from all 50 states, DC, & Puerto Rico, & creative writing fellowships in prose & fellowships to support translation projects. https://t.co/gcLhvO0mUN
“I have also come to realize that time has marched on and I am somehow Iran’s past, conflicted even about calling her my homeland. I am her lost generation.”
In Evergreen’s first IRAN ISSUE: preface & excerpt from “Home Proxy Home” by @NiloufarTalebi.
https://t.co/O0aglzK0v8
From new work, Home Proxy Home, fruit of my @FulbrightPrgrm fellowship in Georgia, so close to Iran. Published in @EvergreenReview IRAN issue, edited by @PKhakpour. Join us launch reading 3/26/23, @ 12 Noon EST. https://t.co/KYW8el9acL
Read here: https://t.co/1fiIi5qJRK #author