“Reading Farrokhzad in a Pandemic” By Kaveh Akbar In life, loss is inevitable, but it does not define us. We, as humans, possess the...

Heritage By Kaveh Akbar (originally my February blog post) The body is a mosque borrowed from Heaven, but history stains its walls with...

"My Empire" By Kaveh Akbar - A poem I wrote about the nature of how I got to writing this blog post is below Procrastination is my curse,...

"Against Vanity" By Kaveh Akbar (originally my December blog post) Nature lends us beauty, but death spares us no dignity. The world...

“The Palace” By Kaveh Akbar Poetry, where emotion that has found its thinking and the thinking that has found words come to meet. That...

“Do you Speak Persian?” By Kaveh Akbar Poetry, that work which makes so many give up so quickly, so beautiful in its words, so moving,...