Kayvan Tahmasebian

Kayvan Tahmasebian is a poet, translator, literary critic, and the author of Lecture on Fear and Other Poems (2019). His poetry has appeared in Notre Dame Review, the Hawai’i Review, Salt Hill and Lunch Ticket, where it was a finalist for The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts in 2017. With Rebecca Ruth Gould, he is co-translator of High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi (The Operating System, 2019).

Articles by Kayvan Tahmasebian:

Published in Overland Issue 237 Summer 2019 · Poetry

Inspired and multiple

Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

Since we met in Isfahan in 2016 and discovered our shared interest in poetry and literary translation, we have co-translated many Persian works, both classical and modern. Most of our translations have been carried out across continents, through email exchanges and text messages, but we have also had the chance to refine our method in person, in Yerevan, Beirut and Birmingham.