Darius Atefat-Peckham
Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian-American poet and essayist. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, the Georgia Review, Rattle, Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Journal, the Florida Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook How Many Love Poems (Seven Kitchens Press). In 2018, Atefat-Peckham was selected by the Library of Congress as a National Student Poet. His work appears in the anthology My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press). Atefat-Peckham lives in Huntington, West Virginia and currently studies English and near eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard.
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Just Like That
I’m grinning, trying to hide it with my face. You’re, like, The Toxic Positivity Guy, you tell me and I’m absolutely positive that I am, hurt and smiling, even as you shrink away, as if it pains you, you who knows me better than anyone, to hardly know me at all. I’m like the man […]