About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Poetry Archive
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Rebecca Farivar to publish her first book in 2011
Posted on October 13, 2010 | 3 CommentsMy beautiful and brilliant wife, Rebecca Farivar, is getting her first book of poetry — tentatively titled Conception — published by Octopus Books in 2011. That means both of our books will be coming out next year! Hooray! Discounts will surely be in effect for... -
African Renaissance statue in Dakar angers locals
Posted on September 29, 2009 | 11 CommentsApparently, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has commissioned a 160-ft high bronze statue commemorating the “African Renaissance.” The statue, “shows a muscular man in a heroic posture, outstretched arms wrapped around his wife and child, who is balanced on one of his biceps,” reports the Associated... -
Big ups to the Bex!
Posted on June 12, 2009 | 1 CommentMy brilliant and beautiful wife, Rebecca, has just had two poems and a review of hers recently published She appears in the latest edition of Parcel, and the Avatar Review. That last one also includes audio of her reading her work, too! She’s also just... -
“Echolocation” and “Cold”
Posted on January 26, 2009 | 2 CommentsRebecca’s back (again!), with yet another potent pairing of poems, this time in Octopus. I will say that I’m a big fan of “Cold,” as it mentions one of my favorite countries, Estonia! ECHOLOCATION Most days I wear the hunched run of an animal, darting... -
“Cull Canyon” and “The Humanification of Things”
Posted on January 25, 2009 | 1 CommentMy bodaciously brilliant fiancée, Rebecca Guyon, is back with two newly-published poems in Strange Machine, an online poetry journal: Cull Canyon A girl drowned here one summer, and another the summer after that. This never stopped anyone from jumping in the water, murky as it... -
Big ups to The Bex!
Posted on January 14, 2009 | 3 CommentsMy brilliant and beautiful fiancée, Rebecca Guyon, has just been published (twice!) in the latest issue of Press 1, an online poetry journal. Here’s my favorite of these two: Brocaded Your bready eyes would float if I threw you in this pond. The koi circling,... -
Modesto, in haiku
Posted on May 21, 2008 | 2 CommentsLast week I went to Modesto for some reporting for NPR. Yesterday, I wrote a haiku about what I learned: Here in Modesto they used to take the train but now they steal cars. -
Soonest Mended
Posted on August 27, 2007 | No Commentsby John Ashbery (1966) Barely tolerated, living on the margin In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued On the brink of destruction, like heroines in Orlando Furioso Before it was time to start all over again. There would be thunder in...
