Over the course of his career, Mojgani has been a member of several poetry slam teams. He was also a member of 2007's Solomon Sparrow's Electric Whale Revival and 2008's Junkyard Ghost Revival, both of which featured poets
Buddy Wakefield and
Derrick C. Brown as actively-touring members. Mojgani won back-to-back titles in the
National Individual Poetry Slam in 2005 and 2006, In 2007 Mojgani was on
HBO's
Def Poetry Jam and placed 2nd in
Poetry Slam, Inc.'s 2007
Individual World Poetry Slam and won first place at 2007 World Cup Poetry Slam held in
Bobigny, France as part of the French National Slam Championships among 16 National Poetry Slam Champions. and published and cover in the Summer 2007 edition of
RATTLE. Mojgani cites several influences: "
Jeffrey McDaniel,
Richard Brautigan,
Charles Bukowski,
Gregory Corso,
Kerouac,
MF Doom,
Aesop Rock,
Robert Rauschenberg,
Basquiat,
Chris Ware,
Frank Miller,
Saul Williams,
Walt Whitman,
Savannah, Georgia, New York City,
New Orleans, being broke, being a
hermit,
Shoot the Piano Player, the
Baháʼí writings and
history." Mojgani was named in the book
Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam as one of the poets who "saw success" after leaving New York City's notoriously competitive
poetry slam community. His book
The Feather Room was a 2011
National Book Award nominee. Mojgani is featured performing a live poem in "Heartbreak Dreamer", the first song on
Mat Kearney's 2015 album
Just Kids. On April 27, 2020, it was announced that Oregon Governor
Kate Brown had appointed Mojgani as the 10th
Oregon poet laureate. == Personal life ==