Against Memory

Kaveh Akbar is the author of the poetry collection Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017) and the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review , Best American Poetry , The Guardian , The Nation , The New Republic , The New York Times , The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour , Ploughshares , Poetry , The Poetry Review , and Tin House , among others. He is the recipient of multiple honors including a Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Levis Reading Prize, and a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson College.