Roger Sedarat
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Roger Sedarat is an Iranian[citation needed]-American poet, scholar, and literary translator.
He is the author of four poetry collections: Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio UP's 2007 Hollis Summers' Prize,[1] Ghazal Games (Ohio University Press, 2011),[2] Foot Faults: Tennis Poems (David Roberts Books, 2016), and Haji as Puppet: an Orientalist Burlesque, which won the Tenth Gate Prize for a Mid-Career Poet (Word Works, 2017). In his poetry, he frequently crosses the post-modern American tradition with the classical Persian tradition, reproducing his hybrid identity in his verse. His poetry and literary translations have appeared in such journals as Poetry, New England Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He has also published the chapbooks: Eco-Logic of the Word Lamb/Translations & Imitations (Ghost Bird Press, 2016) and From Tehran to Texas (Cervena Barva, 2007). Co-author and co-translator of "Nature and Nostalgia in the Poetry of Nader Naderpour (Cambria, 2017), he received the 2015 Willis Barnstone Prize Award in Translation. Under the name of "Haji," he writes poetry and stages dramatic performances that both challenge oppressive regimes, the construct of "Poetry," and the western gaze of the Middle East in the 21st century.
