Kaveh Bassiri (@kbassiri.bsky.social)

War is always “The Unwanted.” In these terrible times, I want to share a translation of a dark, ironic poem by Rosa Jamali, "Poem of War and Canned Goods," published in the latest issue of Interim. Many thanks to Claudia Keelan and the Interim staff. www.interimpoetics.org/the-unwanted...

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The Unwanted—Kaveh Bassiri — Interim Kaveh Bassiri is an Iranian-American writer and translator. He is the author of 99 Names of Exile, winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and Elementary English, winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. His poems have been published in the anthologies Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, The Heart of a Stranger, Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora, and Somewhere We Are Human. His translations have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Chicago Review, Fence, Lana Turner, Colorado Review, and Guernica. Bassiri is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellowship and a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. https://www.interimpoetics.org/the-unwanted-kaveh-bassiri\