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Farnaz Fatemi

Farnaz Fatemi

Farnaz Fatemi

Farnaz Fatemi is the former Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, California Individual Artist Fellow, and author of the poetry collection, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر, recipient of a Publisher’s Weekly starred review. Her poems and essays appear in Alaska Quarterly, Kenyon Review, No Tokens Journal, Nowruz Journal, RHINO Poetry Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. (Source)

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Poems by Farnaz Fatemi

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When I Kneel, I Don’t Think of a God by Farnaz Fatemi

July 4, 2025
“You do not linger out loud. / You are not in my mouth.” — Farnaz Fatemi

Poems curated by Farnaz Fatemi

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Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes

October 14, 2025
“They find peace / in the way they contain the wind / and are gone.” — Lorna Dee Cervantes