# Kaveh Akbar

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#043 - What Makes Confessional Poetry Bad?

Stop writing bad confessional poetry! 👉 JOIN OUR FREE POETRY COMMUNITY INSTEAD: https://www.thepoetryvessel.com/signup Why does so much modern confessional poetry fall flat — and how do the greats like Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Robert Lowell get it right? In this episode of The Poetry Vess…

Back To It!

In this episode I talk about what I've been up to over the last several months since I produced an episode, and I mention the following books: Scott Anderson, King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear: A Novel La…

Famous Americans and Why They Were Wrong by Kaveh Akbar- Poetry Reading and Analysis

Welcome back to Words That Burn, the poetry podcast taking a closer look at poetry. In this episode, host Benjamin Collopy offers a close reading of Kaveh Akbar's "Famous Americans and Why They Were Wrong", from his 2021 collection Pilgrim Bell. The poem runs to seven couplets and moves from a ribb…

Food and Connection Series: Teaching the Next Generation to Grow their Own Food with Anton Van Schaik

Growing your own food is on the table today! On the sixth episode of On the Table with Ashley, we are joined by Anton Van Schaik, a Pitzer College graduate with a degree in Food and Agricultural Studies. For the past three years, Anton has worked with the CalFresh Healthy Living Program as an Urban…

July Reading Recap, August TBR & New Book Releases! 📚 [EP#56]

Let's wrap up our July reading month & talk about what we're looking forward to in August! Books Discussed: Morning Star - Pierce Brown Honey - Imani Thompson The Burning Side - Sarah Damoff Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt - Ben Reeves Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar 11/22/63 - Stephen King The Kn…

Big Walk Made Us A Better Podcast

Welcome to Big Walk, a Triple Click corporate trust exercise that has made us all better co-workers and better people. Kirk, Jason, and Maddy break down the new hit game from House House and talk about their experiences playing it together... and falling off cliffs. One More Thing: Kirk: Martyr! …

Good Girl Audiobook by Aria Aber

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Good GirlCategories: FictionAuthor: Aria AberNarrator: Mozhan NavabiPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingRelease date: 01-14-2025Language: EnglishSummary:Bloomsbury presents Good Girl by Aria Aber, read by Mozhan Navabi 'Kaleidoscopi…

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

It’s a critical darling, it’s a beautifully written scrapbook, it drove Laura to an existential crisis, it’s Martyr!! We are scared of this book! Is it mystifying, or are we just mystified? Join us as we untangle the Gordian knot of Cyrus’s journey. And please tell us if you understood the ending a…

Sam Wachman on how war reshaped "The Sunflower Boys"

In this moving episode of Why Authors Write, host Mary Cronin sits down with debut novelist Sam Wachman to discuss his Boston Authors Club Award–winning novel, The Sunflower Boys (HarperCollins). What began as a pre-med student’s love letter to his ancestral homeland and a queer coming-of-age story…