Bio
(PhD 2018, Poetry) is the author of two poetry collections: Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James/Penguin, 2017) and Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf, 2021). His poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. In 2022, Penguin Classics will publish a new anthology edited by Kaveh titled The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine. In 2020 Kaveh was named Poetry Editor of The Nation. Kaveh has been awarded Pushcart Prizes, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, and the Levis Reading Prize.
First Name
Kaveh
Last Name
Akbar
Full Name
Kaveh Akbar
Grad Year
2018