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A Writer and Professor of English Literature, Creative Writing, and Translation, Roger Sedarat is currently promoting the recent publication of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic.
He received his B.A. in Sociology from The University of Texas-Austin, an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from Queens College, CUNY and a Ph.D. in English from Tufts University. Currently Assistant Professor teaching Poetry and Translation in the MFA program at Queens College, he has taught writing and literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, LaGuardia Community College, Tufts University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Borough of Manhattan Community College.
His doctoral dissertation examined the figuration of New England landscape in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Walace Stevens, and Robert Lowell. An excerpt from chapter two of this project entitled, “Farming New England: Cultition of Meaning in Robert Frost’s Poetry” has been published in The Robert Frost Review. Professor Sedarat has also published much of his own verse in such journals as New England Review, Atlanta Review, and Green Mountain Review.
He has received several scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’Conference as well as a St.Botolph Society grant-in-aid. His poetry manuscript won the the 2007 Ohio University Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. He also has a forthcoming chapbook, From Tehran to Texas (Cervená Barva Press).
Upcoming Readings North Shore Community College, Danvers, MA, |
Previous Readings: “Second Wednesdays”: THE QUETZAL QUILL PRESENTS Curator & Host: A/C/E/F/V/B/D trains to W. 4th St. Stop in the Village ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP POETRY WITH POLITICS: Kageyama-Ramakrishnan draws on her tender memories of her grandparents as she addresses Japanese American internment in Shadow Mountain. In Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, Sedarat confronts past and current injustices in Iran with hope for its future. @ The Workshop,16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor, NYC 10001 --------------------------------------- Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival POETS ON POETRY FESTIVAL READING --------------------------------------- Hudson Valley Writer’s Center --------------------------------------- KGB Bar --------------------------------------- Asian American Writers Workshop |
2007 Winner of the
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
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Reviews:
Midwest Book Review, “Library Bookwatch”, Vol. 3, No. 5; May 2008
Small Press Spotlight: Roger Sedarat, Critical Mass; March 16, 2008
Harriet: A Blog from the Poetry Foundation; Jan. 30, 2008
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Just released:
Chapbook: From Tehran to Texas, Cervená Barva Press*
*Available for purchase at: www.thelostbookshelf.com
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