“Ready, you’re not; here I come,” snarls wet Winter, having mercilessly counted to only eight —years old. A parentlessly invisible child’s camouflaged between Vali-e Asr’s idling buses—canopied by an endless row of embowering gallows-to-be— inside an exhaust’s embrace. The visible are now boarding his untoy bus. I hate that all I can do to help […]
Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani
Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani is a writer, teacher, and editor. His work has received an honorable mention in the 2024 Witness Poetry Prize competition (Southern Humanities Review), won second place in Nine Muses Review’s inaugural poetry contest, and appeared in The Hemlock Anthology (Lighted Lake Press, 2024). Shahryar’s debut book, English Phonetics and Phonology for Farsiphones, was published by Booka (2020). He has edited several books at ATU Press and is the translator of Zahhak's Inferno (Markosia, 2024). His poetry has also appeared in Willow Review and Sky Island Journal, among others. Shahryar lives in Tehran, Iran.