'Art is where what we survive survives': Kaveh Akbar on the power of poetry

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Caption: Kaveh Akbar's next poetry collection is called Pilgrim Bell and it will be released next year. (Hieu Minh Nguyen)

Originally published on January 28, 2020
Kaveh Akbar is an award-winning poet and professor of poetry who founded the poetry website Divedapper(external link) as well as the poetry podcast All Up in Your Ears. Akbar joined q(external link)'s Tom Power to talk about why he's so passionate poetry and what it's like to be an Iranian-American poet working in the U.S. during such a divisive time. He also read excerpts from his poems Portrait of the Alcoholic Stranded Alone on a Desert Island and The Palace.
— Produced by ​Cora Nijhawan