Super-sized podcast episode today! We celebrate the work of Kaveh Akbar with a poem from his debut chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic and most recent monograph, Pilgrim Bell (2021) which I reviewed for my old blog. I thought it would be fun to revisit that review, sandwhiching it between an old Kaveh poem and a new Kaveh poem.

The review can be enjoyed in newsletter form by clicking right here! And just for fun here is a picture of me meeting the poet back in 2017:

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