Vermont Studio Center is pleased to host a special featured reading and conversation with award-winning poet, Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell, and poet Darius Atefat-Pekham. This one hour event is free and open to the public and will be hosted live via Zoom.

To register please visit: https://vermontstudiocenter.org/calendar/kavehakbar-dariusatefatpeckham-featuredevent

Kaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017; Penguin UK, 2018). He is also the author of a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry, 2017). Kaveh is the recipient of the Levis Reading Prize, Pushcart Prize, Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Kaveh is the founding editor of Divedapper, a home for interviews with major voices in contemporary poetry. With Sarah Kay and Claire Schwartz, he writes a weekly column for the Paris Review called "Poetry RX." Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson. His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere. His next work, Pilgrim Bell, is forthcoming 2021 (Graywolf).

Darius Atefat-Peckham's work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Journal, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook How Many Love Poems (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021). His work has recently appeared in the anthology My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press). Atefat-Peckham grew up in Huntington, West Virginia and currently studies English at Harvard College.

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