Kaveh was certainly born a good person, but his overwhelming personal grace and the power of his art were annealed into their ...

“You can sing along, too. Don’t be shy,” Sabrina Carpenter said in front of the star-studded crowd at the Time100 Next Gala ...

I am kind of living for that moment,” says the prolific writer. “Who will betray me first?” Her new novel is “A Reason to See ...

Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems appear recently in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, Tin House, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection is ...

The 2024 Book Prize winners are Kaveh Akbar for "Martyr!" and Blair LM Kelley for "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working ...

Percival Everett’s “James,” Salman Rushdie’s “Knife” and Diane Seuss’ “Modern Poetry” are among the honorees. Winners will be ...

The martyr's death is quite staccato — it imbues a life retroactively with this great meaning and purpose - Kaveh Akbar So the exclamation point seemed to fit that tonally as well — the idea ...

The National Book Awards announced the finalists for its 2024 prizes on Tuesday, in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, ...

INT. WAREHOUSE/ELEVATOR/POURING RAIN/DARK MIRRORED VOID/EMPTY OFFICE, FORTIETH FLOOR/DUSTY WWII-ERA BUNKER/FRAMED IN A WINDOW ...

Award-winning poet Kaveh Akbar, who also teaches English and creative writing at the University of Iowa, took part in DMACC's (Des Moines Area Community College) Celebration of Literary Arts as ...

The National Book Awards has announced its 25 finalists in the Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young ...

In the past, such poets as Kaveh Akbar, Terrance Hayes, Ada Limón, Carl Phillips, Mary Ruefle and Jean Valentine have served as visiting poets. Numerous readings provide the participants with the ...