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Alireza Behnam
Poet, Translator & Literary Critic
Iran
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Born in 1973, Alireza Behnam is an Iranian poet and journalist. He is living in Tehran and works as a journalist in liberal local newspapers. He also writes down some criticism about cinema and literature.
In 1991, he attended Azad University at Bojnourd City and in 1997 got his BS in Civil Engineering. Afterwards he took a job in Akhbar Newspaper. He was editor of art & literature in Azad Daily Newspaper, which ended in august 2002. Then, Behnam was the editor of art & literature in Modaber Daily, which ended in Feb. 2003.
He published two collections of his poetry in Persian and participated in many poetry events. He was a participant of "Dialog With Nature" program, which held by French Embassy in Tehran on 2004-2005, along with Mohammad Ali Sepanlu, Media Kashigar. Hassan Safdari, Pegah Ahmadi, Bahareh Rezaee, Abdolali Azimi from Iran and Alain Lance, Claude Esteban, Jean Baptiste Para and Anne Talvaz from France.
He received the International Library of Poetry Prize in 2001 and the Blure Pen of Iranian critics on 2002.
He works as a poet and freelance journalist in Tehran.
It’s my half that is burning
I began in a half
And hanging gardens over your head
In my half burned half's
Creates myths
I began in a half
In a half I began
In a half
In a...
And half the earth
Burns in me to the end
It is my half that is burning
From the gardens of beginning in a half
To the earth burned of
I fell down
And the sky
On shoulders of my half
Burns slowly
It’s my half that is burning
The name of sky I burned by
And the earth
The name of the town
The name of me
The name of you
The name of every poem in the world
I burned by to my half
It’s my half that is burning
I began in a half
And my hanging half
In the gardens over your head
Is drifting
And my hanging half
Is drifting
And my hanging half
And my half
And half
My
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