Sheema Kalbasi

Sheema Kalbasi is an Iranian-American poet, literary translator, and researcher. Her work has garnered recognition, including a humanitarian award from the United Nations in Pakistan, as well as grants from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands. Her poetry has been anthologized and translated into over twenty languages, and her collection Echoes in Exile is featured on Stony Brook University's Women and Gender Studies reading list. In 2012, Senator LGen the Hon. Roméo Dallaire of...See more

Sheema Kalbasi is an Iranian-American poet, literary translator, and researcher. Her work has garnered recognition, including a humanitarian award from the United Nations in Pakistan, as well as grants from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands. Her poetry has been anthologized and translated into over twenty languages, and her collection Echoes in Exile is featured on Stony Brook University's Women and Gender Studies reading list. In 2012, Senator LGen the Hon. Roméo Dallaire of Quebec, Canada, concluded his speech on Iran by reciting excerpts from her poem "Hezbollah." Additionally, her poem "The Passenger" was selected and performed at the Tribute World Trade Center in New York in 2008. See less