About The Work

I am an Iranian American poet from Texas, and my work studies both infrastructures of power and ecological connection. As a person of mixed heritage, I understand that “commodity” describes something torn out of context and relationship, and instead, reshown as whole. These poems describe refineries, domestic warfare, flooding alongside roseate spoonbills, the Milky Way, and deep love. When I look at my work, I see a study of cause and effect or a study of connection—the flooding in a poem echoing a psychic osmosis, echoing another kind of disaster—the floods as much literal as emotional and political.

I craft work that reveals us in our interdependence and fullness. This is my way of healing the wound of separation—maybe inside us, but also between our bodies and other bodies.

Chapbook

Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a 2022 Chapbook with Tram Editions

Why Not A Few Poems?

“Body Under Another’s Tradition,” Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week for September 20th, 2024.

“Pastoral/State:Us,” Mizna, Summer 2023, Preorder the issue here

“Pathogenesis,” a poem published in September 2022 by the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day

“A Dam is a Form of Failed Diplomacy,” a poem originally published in Weren’t We Natural Swimmers and featured in Angélique Jamail’s site, Sappho's Torque, for National Poetry Month 2022

“Weren’t We Natural Swimmers,” The Rupture

“Where the Unwanted is Removed or Purified,” The Rupture

“Even if Our Life Was Spent Studying Other Human Medicine,” The Rupture

“Love American-Made/ Your ToyOde:Us,” Guernica Magazine

“Deer in Her Empty Garden,” Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary

“Garden in the Iran-Iraq War,” Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary