Bijan Elahi (Persian: بیژن الهی‎; pronounced [biː'ʒæn elɑːhiː]; 7 July 1945 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator.[1] He was for most of his life known as a leading figure of a modernist poetry movement in Iran called The Other Poetry (Persian: شعر دیگر‎).