Rumi Archives

15 March, 2022 • Haleh Liza Gafori

Iranian American poet and translator Haleh Liza Gafori presents a new volume of Rumi translations in "GOLD" published by NYRB Classics.

13 December, 2021 • Ángeles Espinosa

Selling off your beloved book collection to pay the rent hurts, but it beats starving or being out on the street.

14 March, 2021 • Ammiel Alcalay

Two new poems by Ammiel Alcalay, "Kashoggi or Kashog-ji?" and "Translation Theory", explore versions of the truth.

6 September, 2018 • TMR

Advice to Writers, Recognize, The Outsider and Dear America come to us from Iranian immigrants working in the American diaspora.

6 August, 2015 • TMR

Original translations from a native Farsi speaker offer new window onto the mystical poetry of Rumi.