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Kaveh Bassiri is an Iranian-American writer and translator. He is the author of 99 Names of Exile, winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and Elementary English, winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. His poems have been published in the anthologies Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, The Heart of a Stranger, Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora, and Somewhere We Are Human. His translations have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Chicago Review, Fence, Lana Turner, Colorado Review, and Guernica. Bassiri is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellowship and a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Explore Kaveh Bassiri's journey as a poet bridging cultures, language, and identity through profound reflections in his works.

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Someone is calling to you from the sea, beating the heavy waves with his tired hands. (poetry/translations)

As part of UTulsa’s NEH seminar, “Poetics of Place,” the Department of English & Creative Writing welcomes poet Kaveh Bassiri for a reading and discussion of his work. Bassiri is […]