Persian Poetry Caravan

The Podcast

الا یا ایها الساقی ادر کأسا و ناولها

These poems were written to be heard.

Long before Hafez was a book he was a voice — sung by the great singers of Iran, recited at gatherings, and carried in memory from one generation to the next. The Persian Poetry Caravan podcast reads the classical Persian poets aloud, the Persian and the English together, with the short commentary that opens a difficult line.