Roger Sedarat

Roger Sedarat is a poet and translator.

He is the author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic (Ohio UP), which won the 2007 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and Ghazal Games (forthcoming, Ohio UP).

A recipient of scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a St. Botolph Society Grant, he is Assistant Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.


Articles by Roger Sedarat

Monday April 12

Poems

Reinstatement of the Rose It’s time to reinstate the rose, banned too long for its multiple meanings. Without pseudonyms, the journalist has a nose for his own noose. If only to adorn graves, It’s time to reinstate the rose. In streets of Karballah believer’s blood runs like ink for the divine. Hafiz would dip a