![]() ![]() ![]() since I was two years old, I've been spoken to with this consciously elevated vernacular. "DiveDapper became a way for me to manufacture those dialogues directly with the sources."Īkbar: ". "I was so hungry to be having conversations about the poetry that was exciting me, so starved for that sort of dialogue" as he worked towards an MFA and split 60 hours a week between different jobs all while beginning his recovery. Writing became his path out of that old life. When that was uplifted, I had to find something else." My entire life up to that point was predicated on the pursuit of this or that narcotic experience. "I suddenly had 16 hours a day to fill with something new. "The oldest recognizable poem in my book ranges back to when I got sober," Akbar says his debut collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, came out this past September. The site grew out of Akbar's own life in poetry, and his struggles with addiction. Every other Monday, he posts a new interview transcript. It's packed with profiles of writers like Morgan Parker, Ocean Vuong, Wendy Xu, and Max Ritvo - to name just a few. How?Īkbar runs DiveDapper, which focuses on interviews with major voices in contemporary poetry. ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Calling a Wolf a Wolf Author Kaveh Akbar ![]()
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