A Bird in the Garden of Angels, a new Rumi anthology on which I collaborated with John Moyne, has just been published by Mazda Publishers.

My review of Albert Goldbarth's Griffin, appears in Reconfigurations, a new online literary journal.

Two new poems, "After Hafez" and "Amazing Grace," have been published in the lovely journal Thanal Online, which you should read.

Some very kind and entirely unsolicited praise about The Silence Of Men on the blog Calendar Pages.

It Deserves and Should Command Your Attention, a special issue of the online quarterly ArteNews devoted to Iranian literature from the 10th through the 21st centuries, is now live! Guest edited by Richard Jeffrey Newman and including an excerpt from his translation of the Shahnameh. (Please note that, if you view the journal in Explorer, the text will appear center justified. This is a technical issue, not a design choice. To view the text left justified, use Firefox.)

Richard Jeffrey Newman: On Sexual Abuse, Machismo, and Poetry as Survival, an interview with Anne-Christine Hoff appeared in The New Humanist. In conjunction with this interview, The New Humanist also published three poems from The Silence Of Men.

Listen to Richard Jeffrey Newman read two poems from The Silence Of Men, "The Silence Of Men" and "Because."

Review of Richard Jeffrey Newman's, The Silence of Men, by William G. Doty appears in the Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality.

Richard Jeffery Newman's The Silence of Men...reviewed by Amy Unsworth appears in The Pedestal Magazine.

Laurel Johnson's review of the The Silence of Men appears in New Works Review.

The Silence Of Men: An Open Letter to Richard Jeffrey Newman appears on The Great American Pinup.

Reading the World 2007: E-Panel of Literary Translators, an e-panel on literary translation in which Richard Jeffrey Newman participated appeared on the Emerging Writers Network.