Pilgrim Bell is a 2021 poetry collection by Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar.

It was named a best book of the year by Time,[1] The Guardian,[2] and NPR,[3] and was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection.

ZYZZYVA noted that "Kaveh Akbar plays with the spiritual, familial, and corporeal.

Akbar is simply interrogating his life and his place in the world with greater stillness.

"[6] A Ploughshares essay called the book "songs of collective personhood—the way our hearts could fit in each other’s chests.