All images and texts appear in Volume 6 (Spring 2014) and are courtesy of the artists
Amin Esmaielpour
About the WriterAmin is a poet, literary translator and writer. He moved to the United States from Iran in 2011. He holds an MA in American and New England Studies, and an MFA in poetry from the University of Southern Maine, and a BA in English translation from the University of Isfahan, Iran. His poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Broadkill Review, Le monde n’est pas rond, Veil, and Two Hawks Quarterly.
About the IllustratorAmin Mansouri is an illustrator, photographer, poet, and art professor at the University of Iran Applied Science and Technology. He has taught painting and photography in his Atelier for ten years. He has published six books of self-illustrated poetry. Ten individual exhibitions of his work have appeared in Melbourne, Australia, and Tehran, Iran; and more than seventy international team exhibitions have appeared in Beirut, Lebanon, and in Tehran, Esfahan, Tabriz, and Ghazvin, in Iran.