Kamran Javadizadeh

Kamran Javadizadeh is a literary critic and associate professor of English at Villanova University. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, PMLA, and elsewhere. He also hosts Close Readings, a podcast about poems.

Robert Frost at Midlife

In his poems for The Yale Review, the poet reckoned with mortality, imperfection, and the limits of form
Kamran Javadizadeh
April 6, 2026

Ahead of Time

On poetry and mourning
Kamran Javadizadeh
June 12, 2023