Abu Esmail Moayed-o-din TogharayiW
Abu Esmail Moayed-o-din Togharayi

Abu Esmail Moayed-o-din Hosein-ebn-e-ali Esfahani Togharayi was an Iranian poet and scholar of the Seljuq period. He was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1045 A.D.

Ahmadreza AhmadiW
Ahmadreza Ahmadi

Ahmadreza Ahmadi is an Iranian poet and screenwriter. The history of Persian modern poetry calls him the founder of New Wave Poetry in Iran.

Kaveh AkbarW
Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian-American poet and scholar. Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1989. He is the author of Pilgrim Bell, published by Graywolf Press, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, published by Alice James Books in the US and Penguin Books in the UK, and the chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic, published by Sibling Rivalry Press. In 2014, he founded the poetry interview website Divedapper. He received his MFA from Butler University, and his PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University. He is a faculty member at Purdue University, and on the faculty of the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson College. In 2018, he married the American poet Paige Lewis.

Mehdi Akhavan-SalesW
Mehdi Akhavan-Sales

Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles, or Akhavān-Sāless, pen name M. Omid was a prominent Iranian poet. He is one of the pioneers of Free Verse in the Persian language.

Ali Torab JahromiW
Ali Torab Jahromi

Ali Torab Jahromi, known by his pen name Torab, was a Persian poet. He was born in 1883 in Jahrom and later moved to Shiraz for the rest of his life.

Manouchehr AtashiW
Manouchehr Atashi

Manouchehr Atashi was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist.

Ali BabachahiW
Ali Babachahi

Ali Babachahi is an Iranian poet, writer, researcher, and literary critic.

Mohammad-Taqi BaharW
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, widely known as Malek osh-Sho'arā and Malek osh-Sho'arā Bahār, was a renowned Iranian poet, scholar, politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character. Bahar was father of prominent Iranist, linguist, mythologist and Persian historian Mehrdad Bahar.

Jamshid BarzegarW
Jamshid Barzegar

Jamshid Barzegar, born 20 August 1971 in Hamedan, Iran, is an Iranian poet and writer. He began his job as journalist in 1991, and issued his first book in 1994 and was the editor of the newspaper Hambastegi "همبستگي". It was the last news activity he did in Iran. He published four books on poetry, and published dozens of novels in the field of literary criticism and hundreds of articles in the field of literature and political analysis. He also authored seven documentaries that touched on the life and works of contemporary poets and writers in Iran. He is also the brother of the famous Iranian director and producer, Majeed Barzegar. Since January 2018, Berzger has been head of the Deutsche Welle Persian Service.

Habibollah ChaichianW
Habibollah Chaichian

Habibollah Chaichian was an Iranian prominent poet known for religious and ritual poem.

Hushang EbtehajW
Hushang Ebtehaj

Amir Hushang Ebtehaj (Persian: هوشنگ ابتهاج‎, with the pen name of H. E. Sayeh is an Iranian poet of the 20th century, whose life and work spans many of Iran's political, cultural and literary upheavals.

Fereydoun FarrokhzadW
Fereydoun Farrokhzad

Fereydoun Farrokhzad was an Iranian singer, actor, poet, TV and radio host, writer, humanitarian, and political opposition figure. He is best known for his variety TV show "Mikhak-e Noghrei" which introduced many artists such as Ebi, Leila Forouhar, Shohreh, Sattar and many more. He was the brother of the acclaimed Persian poets Forough Farrokhzad and Pooran Farrokhzad.

Payam FeiliW
Payam Feili

Payam Feili is an Iranian poet, activist and writer.

Sheyda GerashiW
Sheyda Gerashi

Mohammadjaafar Khan Gerashi, son of Haj Rustam Khan Gerashi (Sarhang) and grandson of Fathali Khan Gerashi, known as Moghtader ol-Mamalek and better known as his pen-name Sheyda, was a Persian Poet and Panegyrist. He was born in Gerash, Fars, Iran on 3 December 1879, and on 3 April 1920 in a local war in Sahray-ye Bagh, was killed. From him remains a Diwan contains the lyrics, quatrains, odes, dirges, etc., that published by Prof. Ahmad Eghtedari.

Golchin GilaniW
Golchin Gilani

Majd-al-Din Mir-faḵrāʾi was an Iranian poet, who better known by his pen name Golchin Gilani.

Mehdi Hamidi ShiraziW
Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi

Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi was an Iranian poet and university professor.

Iraj MirzaW
Iraj Mirza

Prince Iraj Mirza, son of prince Gholam-Hossein Mirza, was a famous Iranian poet. He was a modern poet and his works are associated with the criticism of traditions. He also made translation of literary works from French into Persian.

Siavash KasraiW
Siavash Kasrai

Siavash Kasrai was an Iranian poet, literary critic, and novelist. An active supporter of the Communist Tudeh Party of Iran from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s, he distanced himself from its leadership in 1988–1990, and turned into an outspoken critic in the mid 1990s.

Maghrebi TabriziW
Maghrebi Tabrizi

Mohammad Shirin Maghrebi Tabrizi, known as Shirin or Mullah Mohammad Shirin also known as Shams Maghrebi lived between years 1348 AD until 1406 AD, is an Iranian poet and a Mystic and a Sufi of the second half of the eighth century AH.

Rahi Mo'ayyeriW
Rahi Mo'ayyeri

Rahi Mo'ayyeri, real name: Mohammad Hasan Mo'ayyeri, was an Iranian poet and musician.

Rahim Moeini KermanshahiW
Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi

Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi was an Iranian poet and lyricist. He is one of the pioneering songwriters in the history of Persian traditional music.

Mohammad Qoli Salim TehraniW
Mohammad Qoli Salim Tehrani

Mohammad Reza Tarshati Tehrani, nicknamed Salim was an Iranian poet and one of the Persian-speaking poets of the Mughal Empire.

Hossein MonzaviW
Hossein Monzavi

Hossein Monzavi was a prominent Iranian poet, essayist and translator who had great effects on Iranian literary mutating. Monzavi's reputation is in composing poems and his lyric poems are primarily in Persian but also he has some contribution to the Azerbaijani language.

Hamid MosadeghW
Hamid Mosadegh

Hamid Mosadegh was a contemporary Iranian poet, author and lawyer.

Fereydoon MoshiriW
Fereydoon Moshiri

Fereydoon Moshiri was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem.

Abulgasim NabatiW
Abulgasim Nabati

Seyid Abulgasim Nabati was a 19th-century Iranian Azerbaijani poet.

Nader NaderpourW
Nader Naderpour

Nader Naderpour was an Iranian poet.

Mohammad-Ali Eslami NodooshanW
Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan

Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan is an Iranian literary critic, translator and poet, and one of the most celebrated contemporary writers on culture and literature in Iran.

Saadi ShiraziW
Saadi Shirazi

Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, better known by his pen name Saadi, also known as Saadi of Shiraz, was a major Persian poet and prose writer of the medieval period. He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts. Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname "Master of Speech" or simply "Master" among Persian scholars. He has been quoted in the Western traditions as well. Bustan has been ranked as one of the 100 greatest books of all time by The Guardian.

Bijan SamandarW
Bijan Samandar

Bijan Samandar was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet, lyricist and Tar player who has written lyrics for notable artists including Ebi, Dariush, Sattar, Vigen, Moein, Mahasti, Andy, Homeyra, Morteza, Hassan Shamaizadeh, and many more.

Sohrab SepehriW
Sohrab Sepehri

Sohrab Sepehri was a notable Iranian poet and a painter. He is considered to be one of the five most famous Iranian poets who have practiced modern poetry alongside Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad. Sepehri's poems have been translated into several languages including; English, French, Spanish, Italian and Lithuanian. Samira Gilani has published several articles on Sohrab Sepehri's poems at the universities of Tehran and Punjab.

Hamid Reza ShekarsariW
Hamid Reza Shekarsari

Hamid Reza Shekarsari is an Iranian poet, researcher, author and literary critic. He has published more than 20 volumes of poetry and literary research.

Taleb AmoliW
Taleb Amoli

Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Taleb Amoli known as Talib Amuli and Talib Amoli Iranian Tabari poet was of the early 17th century. He was the poet laureate of the Mughal emperor Jahangir from 1629 till his death. His poetry is in the “Indian Style” of Persian language. A poetry collection (divan) and the poem Talib and Zohre are the works that are left of him today. The fact that he read mathematics, geometry and philosophy in his poems reveals that he received a good education. He is also known to be a good calligrapher.

Heydar YaghmaW
Heydar Yaghma

Heydar Yaghma was an Iranian poet. He was born in a village near Nishapur. Yaghma was a simple worker and was not literate. He began telling poems while in his thirties and learned how to read and write.

Nima YooshijW
Nima Yooshij

Nimā Yushij, also called Nimā (نیما), born Ali Esfandiāri, was a contemporary Persian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularized, called she'r-e now, also known as she'r-e nimaa'i in his honour after his death. He is considered as the father of modern Persian poetry.