An Evening of Poetry and Spirituality with Kaveh Akbar

FRIDAY, APRIL 30TH, 2021

7:00pm CDT

REGISTER HERE: https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uSJvujypRIGpINOWbquYUA

Poet Kaveh Akbar’s work is exciting, beautiful, often disorienting and urgent. Reflected in his poems are the many facets of his identity—he is Iranian-American, largely Midwestern, queer, Muslim, and in recovery. He is thereby situated in the new wave of poets drawing not only on technical mastery, but also the immediacy of their lived experiences to connect with new audiences for linguistically-charged art.

More info: http://cas.illinois.edu/node/2497