Lessons of Towfigh

Pegah Shahbaz is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy the Asian Institute, an Associate Member of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Inde, l'Asie du Sud et sa Diaspora (CERIAS) at The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Section Editor […]

Michael Craig Hillmann, Independent Scholar   Abstract: “Reading Forugh Farrokhzād’s Poems Poetically,” consisting of PowerPoint slides and commentary for Zoom presentation, offers a cursory appreciation of specific features in a handful of poems. Obviously, scores of interesting and insightful articles on Farrokhzad’s poems are out there, but not many of them involve close readings of […]