Over the Anvil We Stretch By Anis Mojgani

Anis Mojgani has always known how to find magic in the places most people pass by.

In Over the Anvil We Stretch, Mojgani takes us through a landscape of memory—the sounds of crickets at night, the glow of moonlight, the quiet moments that somehow stay with us for life. These poems hold grief and joy in the same hand, reminding us that even the smallest memories can carry an entire world.

Come for the beautiful images. Stay for the feeling that somehow, somewhere in these pages, Mojgani has remembered something you forgot you knew.

he was too dumb
or he loved me too much
either way he had the same smile
I ain’t never been stung by a bee before
not my whole life

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Anis Mojgani is the current Poet Laureate of Oregon. A two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam, he has been published in such journals as Rattle, Platypus, Winter Tangerine, Forklift Ohio, and Bat City Review, amongst others.