Poetry Reading with Kaveh Akbar and Carey Salerno
Poetry Reading: Kaveh Akbar and Carey Salerno
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Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in The New Yorker, Paris Review, The New York Times, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two books of poetry—Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017)—and the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse. Born in Tehran, Iran, Kaveh teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson college. He serves as Poetry Editor for The Nation.
Carey Salerno serves as the executive editor & executive director of Alice James Books, winner of the 2021 Golden Colophon Award for Independent Paradigm Publishing from CLMP, the Community of Literary Magazines and Publishers. She is the author of Tributary (2021), Shelter (2009), and a co-editor of Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books (2013). She teaches publishing arts and poetry writing for the University of Maine at Farmington and is a frequent guest of writing programs, conferences, festivals, where she conducts consultations and delivers talks on publishing arts, editing, poetry, manuscript compilation, and other topics. She has a book of literary criticism related to publishing arts in progress. You may find her essays, poems–and articles and interviews regarding her literary and publishing work–in print and online, including in NPR, Poets & Writers, and American Poetry Review.