Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar (born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American poet and scholar. He is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf, and the chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. In 2014, he founded the poetry interview website Divedapper. He currently lives and teaches in Florida. 2Biography His poems have appeared in Poetry, APR, Guernica, PBS NewsHour, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Akbar founded the website Divedapper.com, where he interviews major voices in contemporary American poetry, and he is a member of the collective podcast All Up in Your Ears. On September 1, 2016, Akbar was awarded the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. 2Awards and honors 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship 3Selected poems "Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats", Poetry, November 2016 "My Kingdom for a Murmur of Fanfare", Poetry, November 2016 3Books Portrait of the Alcoholic. Sibling Rivalry Press. 201