# Event Details - **Event Name**: Persian Poetry in Translation - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 07 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm – Sun, 07 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Persian poetry in translation, with readings from Niloufar Talebi, Roz Naimi and Roger Sedarat.About this EventJoin World Poetry for a night of Persian poetry in translation, with readings from Niloufar Talebi, Roz Naimi and Roger Sedarat.___________________________NILOUFAR TALEBI is an author, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. She has spent most of the past two decades working on projects related to Ahmad Shamlou. Elegies of the Earth is part of this suite of projects that includes the memoir, Self-Portrait in Bloom (l’Aleph), an opera (Abraham in Flames, with composer A. Vrebalov), the video-poem Funeral Address, and a TEDx Talk. Talebi is the editor and translator of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books), and her multimedia projects include ICARUS/RISE, The Persian Rite of Spring, Fire Angels, The Plentiful Peach, and Epiphany. Talebi is a Fulbright Scholar, and the recipient of translation prizes including a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for her translations of Shamlou’s poetry.ROZ SHAYAN NAIMI is a poet, translator, and editor based in New York. She received an MFA from Columbia University in poetry and literary translation in 2024. Her translation of post-modern Iranian poet Mina Asadi's collection titled 'Who Casts the Stones?' is forthcoming with World Poetry Books.ROGER SEDARAT, an Iranian-American writer and translator, is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Haji as Puppet: an Orientalist Burlesque, which won the Word Work’s Tenth Gate Prize for a Mid-Career poet and was adapted for a staged performance with a grant from Atlantic Philanthropies. A recipient of the Willis Barnstone Prize for Translation, his renderings of classical and contemporary Persian have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. He is the author of Emerson in Iran: the American Appropriation of Persian Poetry (SUNY Press) as well as translator of Nature and Nostalgia in the Poetry of Nader Naderpour (Cambria Press)and These Garden Nights: Ghazals of Hafez (forthcoming, Word Works Press). - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/queens/persian-poetry-in-translation/100001976632891187 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Queens - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: DADA - **lat**: 40.7007976 - **long**: -73.8966518 - **full address**: DADA, 60-47 Myrtle Avenue, Queens, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Persian Poetry in Translation - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/675765fa0138b52f3cdfe2c2d68732b38ac487761af3f13c3955e0a5beb16954-rimg-w1200-h600-dc010101-gmir.jpg?v=1764710430 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Persian Poetry in Translation being held? - **A:** Persian Poetry in Translation takes place on Sun, 07 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm to Sun, 07 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm at DADA, 60-47 Myrtle Avenue, Queens, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Persian Poetry in Translation? - **A:** Persian Poetry in Translation is organized by World Poetry Books. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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