Please join Poetry & Poetics to celebrate the release of Temperance Aghamohammadi’s debut poetry collection “BATTALION SHAPED GIRL,” with Kai Ihns, author of “Of,” on Sept 25th, 5:00pm, Hagstrum Room.

Temperance Aghamohammadi is an Acolyte of the Exquisite. A trans Iranian-American poet, medium, and critic, she is the author of BATTALION SHAPED GIRL (DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE,  2025) and Behnt (New Delta Review, forthcoming), selected by Dorothea Lasky as the winner of The New Delta Review Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, New England Review, Fairy Tale Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She is an associate editor at RHINO Poetry and received the Claudia Emerson scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Hailing from the Northeast, she currently haunts the Midwest.

Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago, where she recently completed a PhD at UChicago, studying a form of attentional prosody she calls “aspect choreography” in contemporary experimental poetry and film. She is the author of two books of poems, sundaey (Propeller Books, 2020), and Of (The Elephants, forthcoming fall 2024), as well as several pamphlets, most recently GREEN SKY (slub press, 2023), and Wednesday (The Creative Writing Department, 2023). She’s worked as an editor at Chicago Review and Fence, and currently helps with poetry and the Daily Poem email at The Paris Review.