Temperance Aghamohammadi
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Temperance Aghamohammadi
@serxaphym.bsky.social
Acolyte of the Exquisite | Poet, Critic, and Medium haunting Chicago | Persian-American | she/her 🏳️‍⚧️

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Reposted by Temperance Aghamohammadi
Reviewed @serxaphym.bsky.social's debut BATTALION SHAPED GIRL (Discount Guillotine) for @fullstopmag.bsky.social. These lambent, crystalline poems think and vision and language their way through Wittgenstein, state-sponsored violence, transness, and being.

www.full-stop.net/2025/09/19/r...
September 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
full exposure, press release - BATTALION SHAPED GIRL is: NO ORDINARY WOMAN. A PUPPET STRIPPED OF HER HAND. MS THIS. THAT GIRL. THE ONE ON THE STAKE. A HEART SHAPED BREATH. NEW HOMER. SIX FEET IN THE AIR. A TRIPLE GODDESS. and WHAT IS FOREVER FALLING.

www.discountguillotine.com/shop/p/batta...
August 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
thank you!!
BATTALION SHAPED GIRL, ANMLY contributor Temperance Aghamohammadi's debut collection is available for pre-order now from DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, is a war cry, grimoire, auto-ethnography, and prayer: "I am never going to be / never."

Get yours: www.discountguillotine.com/shop/p/batta...
BATTALION SHAPED GIRL - TEMPERANCE AGHAMOHAMMADI — DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE
“Who but an oracle ought to become in our present battlefields of embargoed being and (un)sanctioned brutality? Who but an oracle of riotous sense and ecstatic vision could so incisively depict ...
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August 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My first book, my strange inquiry - BATTALION SHAPED GIRL - out with Discount Guillotine this September.

See you in the dark.
June 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thank you so much! I’m so grateful for the support
March 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I love trans poets and novelists. I love trans musicians. I love trans filmmakers. I love trans models and actors. I love trans painters and sculptors. I love trans programmers and engineers. I love trans art.
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Trans people are under attack. I implore people to rally around us - fight against policies, protect those in your community, read/watch/listen to/support our art … do not be silent as they try to silence and erase us. The future is a creative act; we have to create it, together
February 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
hiding in the party bathroom because I felt a firebird birth itself in my heart
December 15, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Just sent so many poems out to magazines in my Red Bull haze (divine elixir, I worship thee)
December 15, 2024 at 12:24 AM
swiping right on every profile of a man holding a fish … I want to meet the fish … I want to hear what it has to say .. what oblivions what bliss what crush and flash and flick and to disappear into water like an immediate friend
December 12, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Sharing to Blue Sky my Blue Harp, my poem published by the wonderful @newenglandreview.bsky.social this year.

www.nereview.com/vol-45-no-3/...
Blue Harp
I go to no one,  dark space, twilit  speaking to no one.  I travel to the coast,  to an amphitheater of grayness.  waves . . .
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December 12, 2024 at 5:41 PM
being a medium means becoming saturated with love for those who are no longer with us … when I speak I speak with a thousand tongues
December 11, 2024 at 10:38 PM
in my recent re-fabulations of what criticism might be or become, I think it has to come come back into the fold of other genres of writing - to perhaps narrativize as fiction does, to estrange the world to bring us closer to it as poetry does, to help build out a future as prayer does …
December 11, 2024 at 7:45 PM
today I felt the most beautiful I have in a year. I held an orchestra in my ear. My favorite ghost brought me both hammers and nails. I spent all day alone and kissed my own teeth. the lost dog paws at my door now saying have I found my way home have I found my way home have I found my way home
December 11, 2024 at 3:26 AM