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Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two books of poetry — Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf, 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James, 2017) — and the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse. Born in Tehran, Iran, Akbar teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency M.F.A. programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson colleges. He serves as poetry editor for The Nation.
Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two books of poetry — Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf, 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James, 2017) — and the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse. Born in Tehran, Iran, Akbar teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency M.F.A. programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson colleges. He serves as poetry editor for The Nation.
