Host Eve L. Ewing chats with Kaveh Akbar, poet and bestselling author of Martyr! about recovery communities, trying to write something that will last forever, and the unsavory personal habits of monarch butterflies.

Kaveh’s two book recommendations from this episode are There, There by Tommy Orange and Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream by Kathy Acker.

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