Those Pigeons, Missiles, and Submission

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Ali Asadollahi

Ali Asadollahi is a poet, songwriter, and translator based in Tehran, Iran. He pursued an M.A. in Persian Language and Literature from the University of Tehran and is the author of six books of poetry in Persian. Over the past two decades, his poems have been widely published in leading Iranian literary journals and anthologies. A permanent member of the Iranian Writers’ Association (est. 1968), he has received several domestic literary honors, including the Iranian Journalists’ Poetry Prize and the Young Poets’ Book of the Year Award. His poetry and translations have appeared in prestigious journals, including Denver Quarterly, Diode, Epoch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. A highlight of his translation work is a Pushcart Prize nomination for one of his translated poems. He has many more poems and translations forthcoming in publications such as Another Chicago Magazine, Lunch Ticket, and Poetry Wales.

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