Workshop: Fields of Resistance: Reading and Writing with Ahmad Shamlou

Saturday, 4/11/2026
3:00 - 4:00
Ingleside Meeting Room
Ingleside

1298 Ocean Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
United States

415-355-2898

Author and award-winning translator Niloufar Talebi will lead a bilingual reading and mini generative workshop featuring poems by Ahmad Shamlou. Participants will use images and translations from his poems to create their own.

Niloufar Talebi is an author, translator and Fulbright U.S. Scholar. She is the author of Self-Portrait in Bloom, a literary portrait of Ahmad Shamlou, and the co-creator of Abraham in Flames, an opera inspired by his legacy. Her book, Elegies of the Earth: Selected Poems by Ahmad Shamlou, marks the poet’s centennial and features her translations, which were supported by an NEA Translation Fellowship. Talebi has received commissions from Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Stanford Live, and she teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies.  

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This program honors the diverse cultures, traditions and histories of Southwest Asian and North African heritage.

This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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