Iranian of the Day

Bänoo Zan landed in Canada in 2010. In her country of origin, Iran, she was an English language and literature instructor at universities. She has been writing poetry since the age of ten and has published poetry, criticism, and translations in Persian and English. Her poetry has appeared in The Calling, Voices, The Applicant, Magnapoets, protestpoems.org, Mandegar, Zanan, Kabul Press, Verse Afire and PEN International. For more information on BeSpokeCity or if you're interested in getting involved, go to thedocumentarians.ca/bespokecity.html.