6:00 - 7:00
Author Niloufar Talebi explores the bold and innovative currents in modern and contemporary Iranian poetry with her Northern California Book Awards-nominated anthology, Belonging: new Poetry by Iranians Around the World.
Niloufar Talebi is an author, award-winning translator, creator and producer. She is the editor and translator of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, 2008), and author of the hybrid memoir, Self-Portrait in Bloom (l’Aleph, 2019). She teaches Creative Writing at the Stanford Continuing Studies Program. Talebi's multimedia storytelling projects have been commissioned and presented by Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stanford Live, the Kennedy Center and Brooklyn Academy of Music. She is the creator of a suite of projects inspired by the Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou that includes Abraham in Flames opera (composer A. Vrebalov, 2019), Funeral Address video-poem and a TEDx Berkeley Talk. She is a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow.
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