The Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' in partnership with the Friends of the SF Public Library, SF International Poetry Festival and the Asia Society. San Francisco: February 5-6, 2009
Friday Feb 5, 2009 location: Book Bay, Fort Mason.
The Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' celebrated the poets of BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, Aug 2008), edited and translated by Niloufar Talebi.
The Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' celebrated the poets of BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, Aug 2008), edited and translated by Niloufar Talebi
Poet Ziba Karbassi and panelist Isabelle Thuy Pelaud at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Poet Partow Nooriala (L) and poet Majid Naficy (R) at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Poet Partow Nooriala speaking with SF poet laureate and panelist, Jack Hischman, at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Books on sale at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Book Bay Fort Mason staff and volunteers at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Poet Abbas Saffari, and editor/translator of BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, Niloufar Talebi, at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
The Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Barbara Paschke at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
New reader of new Iranian poetry at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Donna Bero, Executive Director of the Friends of the SF Public Library, a partner of the Translation Project in presenting the second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Poet Ziba Karbassi at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Byron Spooner of the Friends of the SF Public Library introducing Niloufar Talebi at The Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Niloufar Talebi, founder of the Translation Project and editor/translator of BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, introducing the panelists of the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009. February 5, 2009 roundtable topic is 'The Future of Diaspora Literature'.
Poet Partow Nooriala
Poet Ziba Karbassi
Poet Abbas Saffari
Poet Jack Hirschman
Poet Jack Hirschman reading Saeed Soltanpour at The Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Panelist Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, specialist in Vietnamese - American literature, speaks of the common grounds in diaspora literature at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Robert Bullock of the Asia Society Northern California, a partner of the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
panelists of the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Panelist, poet Majid Naficy at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Poet, Partow Nooriala, at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Fariba Rezvani at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Poet Abbas Saffari at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Ziba Karbassi at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Q & A at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Book signing at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Poets Jack Hirschman and Pireeni Sundaralingam at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
Book signing
Poets Majid Naficy and Pireeni Sundaralingam at the Translation Project's second 'Iranian Literary Arts Festival' 2009.
