Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar is the poetry editor of The Nation and the author of Martyr!

Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ICE.

What Will You Do? What Will You Do?

What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

Mar 28, 2025 / Kaveh Akbar

Pilgrim Bell

Pilgrim Bell Pilgrim Bell

My savior has powers and he needs. To be convinced to use them for good. Up until now he has been. A no-call no-show. The menace. Of ecstasy like a hornets nest buzzing. Under ice.

Sep 21, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Kaveh Akbar

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