Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian-American poet, professor, and scholar. He is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, among many other awards.

“Akbar has what every poet needs: the power to make, from emotions others have felt, memorable language nobody has assembled before.”
– Stephanie Burt for the Yale Review on Calling a Wolf a Wolf

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