Mohsen Emadi

Mohsen Emadi is an award-winning Iranian poet, translator and filmmaker. He has been featured at many international poetry festivals, including the International Poetry Festival of Mexico City, Barcelona Poesia, the International Poetry Festival of Moncayo, Mahalta International Poetry Festival, the International Symposium on Rumi (Turkey, 2007), International Symposium on Nietzsche (Finland),and Association of Writers & Writing Programs. His poetry has been recognized with the 2010 Premio Poesía de Miedo, the IV Antonio Machado Fellowship, an ICORN Fellowship, and the 2015 Poets from Other Worlds honor from the International Poetry Fund. Following a series of conversation with Antonio Gamoneda and Clara Janés, on a trip to Granada in 2010, Emadi began working on a series of documentaries with themes around poetry, reality and exile. The first of the series is Querido Antonio, a poetic documentary on the influce of the Spanish Civil War on the work of Antonio Gamoneda, which in turn resulted in the publication of De la realidad y la poesía. Tres conversaciones y un poema, (published by Vaso Roto Ediciones, Mexico, 2010). His other documentaries include La Unica Patria, featuring the last interview with Juan Gelman, and Un Poeta y Su Exilio, on the exile of Luis Cernuda in Mexico.