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ABOUT THE POET ~
Mohammad Forouzani (Martin) is an assistant professor of English Language and Literature presently teaching at the University of Nizwa, Oman. He was born in 1964 in Tehran, Iran. He holds BA and MA degrees in English Literature and a PhD degree in TEFL. Forouzani started intensive reading of Philosophy and Persian literature in his early youth which led to his writing of poems, satires, and critiques on social and political issues. His first collection of Persian poems was published in 1997 under the title “Khaste-tar az Zaman” (More Tired than Time)., He has publications in the area of language teaching and recently published a selection of his English poems in Voice of Monarch Butterflies: Middle Eastern anthology by ten poets from Ganges to Nile (2016- Editor: S. Saeidnia). Two of his poems were also published in Tuck Magazine in August 2016.