by Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Jeb Livingood (Editor)

The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality of poetry as it is being practiced today.

Author Biography

Kaveh Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran. He is author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Portrait of the Alcoholic and is the recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Pushcart Prize, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.