Sunday, March 1, 2020

Thought for the Day


. . . Against everything, we have to protect our
permeability to wonder. That's the nucleus
around which all interesting art orbits.
~ Kaveh Akbar
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Quoted from "Word By Word: Reflecting on Fifteen Years of Debut Poets" in Poets & Writers, page 64

Kaveh Akbar, Award-Winning Iranian-American Poet, Editor,  Scholar; Founder and Editor, Divedapper; Columnist, "Poetry RX", Paris Review; Professor, Purdue University and Randolph College

Kaveh Akbar Profiles at Academy of American Poets and Poetry Foundation

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