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Hard Hat Reading: Kaveh Akbar
Poet and scholar Kaveh Akbar recites and discusses “I came to you” by Jean Valentine, and his own poem “Reading Farrokhzad in a Pandemic” from his recent book Pilgrim Bell.
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Recorded At: Poets House Recorded On: Thursday, June 28, 2018
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