Kaveh Akbar with Kim Hill

Kim Hill speaks with Kaveh Akbar. Photo Fergus Haywood

Kim Hill speaks with Kaveh Akbar. Photo Fergus Haywood

Kim Hall (RNZ) talks with Kaveh Akbar, an Iranian-American poet whose work has appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, New York Times and The Harvard Review.

His first book, Calling a Wolf a Wolf is a collection of captivating poetry and has won multiple prizes and the warmest of praise. Kaveh not only writes poetry but he works to spread it through the world through his work as a prolific editor, teacher and podcast guest speaker.

This event was part of Verb Wellington’s 2018 LitCrawl Extended series.

 
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