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"Anis Mojgani is a trickster and a philosopher, a theologian and a rock star."
– Pulitzer Prize Finalist Luis Urrea,
author of The Devil's Highway
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Anis Mojgani served two terms as Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate and is a two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam. Winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam and a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Anis has done commissions for the Getty Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum. His work has appeared on HBO, National Public Radio, and as part of the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series; and in the pages of the NYTimes, Rattle, Platypus, Winter Tangerine, Forklift Ohio, and Bat City Review. Anis has been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera, AIR Serenbe, The Bloedel Nature Reserve, The Sou’wester, and the Oregon Literary Arts Writers-In-The-Schools program.
Known for his performances and well regarded for them the world over, Anis has performed at hundreds of universities across the U.S.; festivals around the globe, including the Sydney Writers Festival, Jamaica’s Calabash festival, and Seoul’s Young Writers Festival. Co-creator of the Oregon Poetry Telephone Line and the librettist for the opera, Sanctuaries, Anis is the author of six books of poetry––his latest being, The Tigers They Let Me––and his first children’s book is forthcoming from Holiday House/Neal Porter Books. Originally from New Orleans, Anis currently lives in Portland Oregon.
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“ANIS MOJGANI IS A GALE FORCE TALENT, A TWIRLING DERVISH OF LYRIC & THE BODY'S MUSIC, A POET WHO GLEEFULLY SPURNS THE BOUNDARIES OF POET.”
– PATRICIA SMITH
KINGSLEY TUFTS WINNER & FOUR-TIME INDIVIDUAL WINNER OF THE NATIONAL POETRY SLAM
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“His poetry sings just as beautifully on the page
as it does on the stage.”
– PANK Magazine
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