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20 Anis Mojgani
Over the last two years, crowds have gathered outside Anis Mojgani’s studio in southeast Portland to listen to his poems ring out into the evening air. Though the sight of Oregon’s poet laureate leaning out his window, candlelit and gesturing buoyantly, became familiar to the people who filled the street for his Poems at Sunset out a Window events, the view from inside Mojgani’s studio is equally striking. Overlooking a school park where children jump in leaf piles, laughing loudly enough to be heard over the jazz record playing inside, Mojgani seems fueled by a childlike spirit.