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Anis Mojgani Poet United States of America
Anis is the 2 time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion of 2006 and 2005, one of only two people to win the title more than once. He also won first place at France's 2007 World Cup Poetry Slam and placed second at the 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam, held in Vancouver. He has been a resident of the Oregon Literary Arts ‘Writer's-In-The-Schools’ program and has appeared on HBO and NPR. Anis' work has appeared in Rattle Literary Journal and alongside the works of US Poet Laureates Ted Kooser and Billy Collins, in the anthology Spoken Word Revolution Redux. Originally from New Orleans, he currently lives in a white house in Portland, Oregon, with three guys and a cat named Ivan, where sometimes has a beard and sometimes does not. Anis believes that his cat loves him. He believes that there is something bigger than the things we see and that it hold us when we are not looking. He hopes he is strong enough to do the same for you.
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