Last Call Volume 2

The follow-up to Sarabande’s Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, & Deliverance, Another Last Call is a collection of poems from forty contemporary, living poets, all speaking to the experience of addiction. For some, it’s not their own experience of addiction that’s altered the trajectory of their living, but the suffering of a beloved.--Provided by publisher.

Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Times, Paris Review, The Nation, Best American Poetry, The New Republic, The Guardian, American Poetry Review, The Poetry Review, PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere. His second full-length volume of poetry, Pilgrim Bell, was published by Graywolf in 2021. His debut, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is out now with Alice James in the US and Penguin in the UK. He is also the author of the chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic, published in 2016 by Sibling Rivalry Press. Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and is teaches at the University of Iowa.

Paige Lewis is the author of the poetry collection Space Struck (2019), cited as ＂One of the best debuts of the year＂ in ＂Must-Read Poetry, 2019＂ by The Millions. They are a recipient of the 2016 Editor’s Award in Poetry from The Florida Review as well as a Gregory Djanikian Scholarship from The Adroit Journal. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere. They currently live and teach Iowa City, IA.