poetry by leila farjami
Blood & Elegies
Laying Down Among the Dead
After Ocean Voung’s “Kissing in Vietnamese”
Leila Farjami is an Iranian-American poet, translator, and psychotherapist. Winner of The Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Awards in poetry, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and the Best of the Net, her poems appear in Diode, El Portal, Euphony, Grey Sparrow, Midwest Quarterly, Nimrod, Pennsylvania English, Silk Road Review, Subnivean, and elsewhere. Her work is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review, and an anthology by Guernica Editions in April 2025. She serves as a reader for The Harbor Review.