{"id":4071,"date":"2008-01-10T15:23:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/10\/shab-e-sher-a-night-of-persian-poetry-2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:43:08","slug":"shab-e-sher-a-night-of-persian-poetry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4071","title":{"rendered":"Shab-e She&#039;r: A Night of Persian Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/pafladycmyk3.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/pafladycmyk3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"147\" alt=\"pafladyCMYK\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/pafladycmyk-thumb.jpg\" width=\"129\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a>Come join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persianartsfestival.org\/\">Persian Arts Festival<\/a> as we celebrate the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/sedarat.com\/index.html\">Roger Sedarat\u2019s<\/a> first book of poems, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/ohioswallow.com\/book\/Dear+Regime\">Dear Regime<\/a><\/em>, which won the 2007 Ohio University Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/ohioswallow.com\/book\/Dear+Regime\">Dear Regime<\/a><\/em> has been praised by writers such as David Lehman, Kimiko Hahn and Nahid Rachlin, who has written that it is &#8220;a stunning collection of poems that vividly captures all aspects of Iranian culture.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/sedarat.com\/home.html\">Roger Sedarat<\/a> is a professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>When &amp; Where<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Wednesday, 1\/16\/2008<br \/>6:00-8:00 PM<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowerypoetry.com\/mid\/directions.htm\">The Bowery Poetry Club<\/a> (click for location and directions)<br \/>308 Bowery @ Bleecker Street<br \/>$12 cover buys one drink  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Information<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.persianartsfestival.org\/\">www.persianartsfestival.org<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>To sign up for the open reading, send an email to PAF\u2019s Literary Arts Director, Richard Jeffrey Newman: poetry@persianartsfestival.org  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Shab-e She&#8217;r at the Bowery Poetry Club will run from 6-8 PM on the third Wednesday of the month through May 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come join Persian Arts Festival as we celebrate the publication of Roger Sedarat\u2019s first book of poems, Dear Regime, which won the 2007 Ohio University Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Dear Regime has been praised by writers such as David Lehman, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4071\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}