Making Poets – And Their Poetry – Accessible 24/7

After he got sober, poet Kaveh Akbar wanted to fill his world with something that wasn’t about narcotics – and that something was creating a poetry site where he posts deep, wide-ranging interviews with poets every other week. “Akbar jokes that if you’ve read a dozen DiveDapper interviews, you’ve spent an hour with a dozen different poets — and you’ve actually spent 12 hours with him too.”