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Book Signing & Poetry Reading by Sheida Mohamahi

Please join us Wednesday, June 15, 6-8 pm in UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway (HG) 1030 for a poem reciting and book signing by Sheida Mohamadi, about her new book "I blink, and you are a peacock".

Sheida Mohamadi is the first Poet in Residence at the Jordan Center for Persian Studies. Born in Tehran, Iran, Sheida is a poet, fiction writer and journalist. Her poems have been translated into different languages, including English, French, Arabic, Czech, German, Turkish, Kurdish and Swedish.
As poet in residence, Sheida is engaged in the scholarly and community work of the Jordan Center.  She presented a lecture on the idea of homeland in modern Persian poetry in fall quarter 2015 and gave a reading of her own poetry in the winter 2015. While at the center, she is working with translators on a volume of her poetry into English translation. Her most recent book, titled I Blink and You Are a Peacock (تا پلکم مژه میزند طاوس میشوی), was published in Spring 2016. We asked Sheida to share her poems with us.  You can also watch a video of her recent book talk and poetry reciting at UCI (in Persian) here, as well as another of her poetry recitings (به استانبول نگاه می‌کنم با گوش‌های مست) here.
Her previous works include many books such as Snapshot of Making Love (عکس فوری عشقبازی) published in 2007 and Crimson Whispers (یواش‌های قرمز), published in Spring 2015 in Paris.

The talk is in PERSIAN.