Kaveh Akbar

Feast on this smorgasbord of poems about eating and cooking, exploring our relationships with food.

The Get Lit organization of Los Angeles has long seemed to be one of the center points for spoken word poetry experience as well as writing. And here is the...

Kaveh Akbar on human wondering, fat squirrels, and the best spouse in the world.

Don Share is the editor of Poetry Magazine, a poet and translator, and a gem of a human. He chats with Danez and Franny about the mechanics and ethos of...

Heems reads Kaveh Akbar’s poem “Portrait of the alcoholic three weeks sober”.

The VS Podcast squad pops down south to Oxford, MS for a handful of episodes featuring students and professors in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi. First up...

Kaveh Akbar reads a poem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from Arabic by poet Fady Joudah.

Danez and Franny dive deep with Divedapper creator, poet, professor, and voracious reader Kaveh Akhbar. The squad talks Twitter, trees, memorizing poems while in love, and the Milwaukee Bucks, plus...

How to teach bewildering poems.

In Pilgrim Bell, Kaveh Akbar reaches across languages to write "documents of barbarism."

To commemorate the bicentennial of Whitman’s birthday, the Poetry Foundation partnered with filmmakers at Manual Cinema to create a video celebrating Whitman’s poetry and legacy.

By Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar describes a nascent sexuality emerging in a life troubled by alcohol. Produced by Sarah Geis.

Raych Jackson swings through the VS studio to talk her win at NUPIC (The National Poetry Individual Competition), the brilliant kidlets in the third grade class she teaches, and remixing...

By Kaveh Akbar

A BBQ signboard becomes an unlikely booster for poetry.

The editors discuss Kaveh Akbar's "Portrait of the Alcoholic Floating in Space with Severed Umbilicus" from the October 2016 issue of Poetry.