Jahan Khajavi

Jahan Khajavi is “the best kind of pervert” (Farid Matuk) composing “wildly amusing and explicit queer poetry” (Hamish Bowles, Vogue) “with elements of swagger and sex”  (Rob McLennan) that “luxuriates in the labor of the real” (PJ Lombardo, Tripwire) and “juggles truly absurd comedy and frank body talk with overwhelming tenderness and genuine corporeal joy” (Louis Fratino, Mousse). Khajavi’s “fabulous, fierce first collection” (Charlie Stuip, Grotto) Feast of the Ass (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023), is “one of the most unique books of recent memory,” (Johannes Göransson) which “at once flourishes and makes a flourish of classical Persian forms” (Joyelle McSweeney). (Updated 04/2026)