- Interview with Persis Karim for Chad Hall’s Blog (Silicon Valley)
An Interview with Persis Karim, Poet/Professor at San Jose State University by San José based writer, Chad Hall, 4/29/15, conducted for CONTENT Magazine. read the full interview
- The Wind
I love the wind–
its breath in my hair,
its fingers on my back,
the sound of it in trees
or at the edge of the sea.
I love the wind more
than anything I cannot see.
Persis Karim
- A Review of March/April WORLD LITERATURE TODAY Issue (Writing Beyond Iran)
Luau Thanks to Daniel Simon, Managing Editor of World Literature Today for sending me this review!
What an honor to have someone draw attention to the magazine http://schottfabrics.com/new-a-tacs-le-x-pattern/ World Literature Today--a magazine I too admire and respect for its attention to international literature, global authors, and media such as film. The issue that I edited in March/April 2015 ...
- Interview with Persis Karim (& poem) CONTENT MAGAZINE Silicon Valley, April 2015
ContentMagazineInterview -April 2015
- Wayward Dragonfly
The strong wind pushes and whips
a dragonfly far from water
I nearly step on its glassy wings
but the light of its shimmer catches my eye
I lift and hold its delicateness
in the palm of my aging hand
the black veins of its travels
the circuitry of its flight
are transparent in each flutter
I set it in a tree to recover
hoping ...
- For Kyle- In What Would Have Been His 21st Year
At 21, you might have taken the world
into the folds of your arms, held it softly
like a baby, or flexed your muscles
and hurled it into space, like the fire
of your bright-burning. No one knew
what the stars held for you, ... - Persis Karim’s Interview with Shuka Kalantari about the Norouz Haftsinn
http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/03/20/the-seven-edible-s-foods-of-the-persian-new-year/
- Cloud Study: Three Haikus for a Hopeful Sky
I. all day the clouds heave
each hopeful moment I wait
but not one drop falls
II. birds rest on wires
waiting for the rainstorm too
gossip suffices
- Mr. Spock and the Beginning of Seeing Myself
Thank you Mr. Spock. Thank you Leonard Nimoy. You are one and the same to me, really. I will miss your voice and serious demeanor, your depth of vision as a man and an actor, but more so, as someone who straddled the centuries, and helped me straddle my own sense of time and place. ...
- haiku for a mother hummingbird
Medellín nest of moss and light
http://stephanepereira.com/work/documentaries cups her still body in green
http://dearmckenzie.com/sites/default/files/alfacgiapi beneath her hums life
(Persis Karim)
- Mr. Spock and the Beginning of Seeing Myself
