Free online: Join the Academy of American Poets for the 2025 Blaney Lecture on "Poetry and Spirituality" delivered by acclaimed poet Kaveh Akbar, author Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf Press, 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James, 2017). He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine. His first novel, Martyr! (Knopf, 2024), was a New York Times Bestseller. Thursday, May 29, 6-7 PM CDT.
“Bewilderment is at the core of every great poem.” ~Kaveh Akbar