is an Acolyte of the Exquisite. An American-Iranian poet, medium, and critic, Author of BATTALION SHAPED GIRL (2025) and Behnt (2026).
Chicago, IL
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True Love as poetic form ; True Love as physics ; as chemical property ; as biology ; True Love as semiotics ; as sign; as signifier : as sound and word condensed ; True Love as magick ; as curse and its breaking ; as kiss ; as gaze ; True Love as power ; to escape ; to escape
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"Both poets are interested in the magical facets of sound and form that enable language to perform spells."
@Reckless_Edit on "After You Were, I Am" and "Battalion Shaped Girl." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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“This city is a Necropolis / misnamed, obsidian as the opulent flame, which is shadow, the aqueous / body with which I bewitch terrain.” Read Temperance Aghamohammadi’s “The End of Elegy” out now: swamp-pink.charleston.edu/fe…
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Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: An Interview with @serxaphym
Read here:
poems.com/poem/behnt-automat…
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Are women discouraged from writing "difficult poetry"? In my new piece for @LAReviewofBooks, I explore the gendered nature of reader expectations with regard to two new volumes by Temperance Aghamohammadi @serxaphym and @CamilleRalphs_. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Four new poems from my upcoming chapbook, “Behnt,” about my mother, grief, and the sundering now on Sixty Literary, with an artist’s response to me poems!
sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/sk…
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“Matryoshka” by @serxaphym from Battalion Shaped Girl published by Discount Guillotine
Read here:
poems.com/poem/matryoshka/
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hi poets & gay people in my phone!! some uni friends and i are cohosting two readings with @GAY_ALOCASIA on interconnectedness in order to raise funds for the western alaska relief fund. would love to see you on one or both nights, registration & donation links in the comments!
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BATTALION SHAPED GIRL, ANMLY contributor Temperance Aghamohammadi's debut collection is available for pre-order now from DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, is a war cry, grimoire, auto-ethnography, and prayer: "I am never going to be / never."
Get yours: discountguillotine.com/shop/…
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"A half-fox blazed. Across
the absences of grass.
It had my face. It spoke."
— Temperance Aghamohammadi, "Brocken Specter": yalereview.org/article/tempe…
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“Where with wherewithal.
I fixed my eye. On some
underdark peak.”
From "Brocken Specter," by Temperance Aghamohammadi, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/tempe…
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full exposure, press release - BATTALION SHAPED GIRL is: NO ORDINARY WOMAN. A PUPPET STRIPPED OF HER HAND. MS THIS. THAT GIRL. THE ONE ON THE STAKE. A HEART SHAPED BREATH. NEW HOMER. SIX FEET IN THE AIR. A TRIPLE GODDESS. and WHAT IS FOREVER FALLING.
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thank you!
BATTALION SHAPED GIRL, ANMLY contributor Temperance Aghamohammadi's debut collection is available for pre-order now from DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, is a war cry, grimoire, auto-ethnography, and prayer: "I am never going to be / never."
Get yours: discountguillotine.com/shop/…
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My first book is available for preorder now:
discountguillotine.com/shop/…
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Francophiles on #BastilleDay: my new book, FRANCOFILAMENTS @brokensleep, was shaped by my time interviewing film luminaries like Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Laure Calamy, and Céline Sciamma. It’s sexy-sad poetry for midsummer revelry and rapture!
brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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my first book and my strangest inquiry - BATTALION SHAPED GIRL - out this September with Discount Guillotine.
See you in the dark.
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featuring poems first found in @kenyonreview @NERweb @annuletpoetics @ANMLY_LIT @yalereview @PassagesNorth @Hopkins_Review @swamp_pink and more
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