jaz sufi is a writer & educator.
but who is jaz sufi?
Jaz Sufi (she/her) is a queer Iranian-American poet and arts educator. She is a National Poetry Slam finalist and the former executive director of the Berkeley Slam, the longest running poetry slam on the West Coast. She has toured internationally, from Berlin to the Scottish Rites Center to performing alongside the Townsend Opera. Her work has been published or is upcoming in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Kundiman, the Watering Hole, and New York University, where she received her MFA as a Goldwater fellow. She is the current Poet Laureate of San Ramon, where she lives with her dog, Apollo.
so where are the poems?
online
“My Mother and the Bottle” in The Offing (2017)
“Different Names for Lamotrigine” in PANK (2018)
“Etymology of Improvised Explosives” in Birdfeast (2019)
“PERIHELION / APHELION” and three other poems in The Rumpus (2020)
“Hanjo” in Yalobusha Review and winner of the 2020 Yellowwood Poetry Prize (2020)
"When My Classmates Ask Me If My Father Took Down the Towers” in Southeast Review (2021) and selected for Best of the Net 2022
"Litany to Protect Against Possession" in Southeast Review (2021)
“Acknowledgments” and three other poems in THE BOILER (2021)
“Someday I’ll Love Jaz Sufi” and one other poem in The Shade Journal (2021)
“today i manic all the way down” in Sixth Finch (2022)
“Oasis” in Diode (2022)
“Judith I” in Muzzle (2023)
“The Atheist Performs Augury” in Frozen Sea (2023)
“Unforgiven Etymology” in The Chestnut Review (2024)
“Catalog of Shadows Cast in Different Kinds of Light” in The Adroit Journal (2024)
“Magic Trick” in The Cortland Review (2024) and selected for Best New Poets 2024
“Family History Rewrite” in The Los Angeles Review (2024)
“Etymology of Borders” forthcoming in Split This Rock (2025)
“Preface” in Nonbinary Review (2016)
“Your Mother Says, ‘I’m Just Surprised You’re Not Angrier, That’s All’” in The Dead Animal Handbook (2017)
“I'm Fine, Thank You for Asking! I'm Fine, Thank You for Asking!” in The Journal (2017)
“Every Part of the Animal” in AGNI (2020)
“Poem in the Voice of Thirty to Fifty Feral Hogs” in Black Warrior Review (2023)
“Understand I Can No Longer” in The Colorado Review (2023)
“Notre-Dame” and “Etymology of Definition” in Ploughshares (2024)
“Genesis 3:4” in Passages North (2024)
“Anti-Epithalamion” in The Georgia Review (2024)
“Dialectics” in The Cincinnati Review (2024)
“Duplex” in Hayden’s Ferry Review (2025)
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