This collection includes 16 audio files and 7 video files, produced as integral parts of the multi-platform (in print, and in virtual and real spaces), multi-disciplinary, and multi-language anthology ‘rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions’, curated and edited by Gita Hashemi. This online archive is accessible from the print book by QR codes. All works are originally produced for the ‘rumi roaming’ anthology.

‘rumi roaming’ juxtaposes new translations of some of Rumi’s poems with creative non-fiction, poetry, scholarly essays, photo essays, and videos that engage with his work through decolonial reflections on language, human connections, place, and spirituality. Artists, poets, scholars, and thinkers from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds take off from Rumi’s poetry to cover a wide range of interconnected and urgent themes, including global displacements and relations to land and water, translingual poetics and translation politics, indigenous language revitalization and diasporic language reclamation, and interrogations of spirituality, healing, and social justice.

Read and recorded by some of the anthology’s contributors, the audio files include readings of poetry by Rumi, in Persian or English translation, and poetry by the contributors in English, Persian, or Arabic. These poems are also included in the print book.

The video files include video performance (1), live poetry and dance video (1), art videos (4) and a video recording of an online working session. They have companion texts in the print book.

In this Collection:

Poetry readings by: Ehab Lotayef, Radha D’Souza, Hajar Hussaini, Elena Basile, Mahdi Tourage, Oyku Tekten, Jayce Salloum, Trish Salah, Zainab Amadahy, charles c. smith, Gita Hashemi

Art videos: Gita Hashemi

Performance videos: Nika Khanjani; charles c. smith, Meryem Alaoui, and Gita Hashemi

Translation working session video: Gita Hashemi and Elena Basile

Anthology Information

‘rumi roaming’ project is produced by SubversivePress. The anthology is a co-publication of SubversivePress and Guernica World Editions. Financial support for the production of the works in this online collection was provided by the Toronto Arts Council, funded by the City of Toronto, and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

‘rumi roaming: contemporary engagements and interventions’ : https://subversivepress.org/rumiroaming

Curated and edited by Gita Hashemi

Translation and poetry editor, and editorial consultant: Elena Basile

GUERNICA AND SUBVERSIVEPRESS
TORONTO—CHICAGO—BUFFALO—LANCASTER (U.K.)
2025

Legal Deposit—First Quarter
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2024942741
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: rumi roaming : contemporary engagements and interventions / curated and edited by: Gita Hashemi
Names: Hashemi, Gita, editor
Series: Guernica world editions (Series) ; 93.
Description: Series statement: Guernica world editions ; 93

Identifiers: Canadiana 20240437489 | ISBN 9781771839709 (softcover)

Subjects:
LCSH: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273—Criticism and interpretation. | LCSH: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273—Translations into English. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. | LCGFT: Essays. | LCGFT: Poetry.

Classification: LCC PK6482 .R86 2025 | DDC 891/.5511—dc23