We are pleased to invite you to an evening of poetry to celebrate two important new collections.
Michael Dickman’s intuitive, agile verse captures us in its unusual pulse. Image-driven and shape-driven, the poems of Days & Days touch on parenthood, childhood, local natural habitats, graffiti culture, roses, and romantic love. Throughout, Dickman meets the brutality, banality, and strange beauty of the quotidian with a level gaze. Poet and anthropologist Naomi Stone explores the surprising world of war games in mock Middle Eastern villages in which the U.S. military trains. With deft lyrical attention, these documentary poems reveal the nuanced culture and violence of the war machine.
Michael Dickman is the author of three books of poems, The End of the West, Flies, winner of the James Laughlin Award, and Green Migraine. He is coauthor, with his twin brother, of 50 American Plays (Poems) and Brother. He teaches creative writing at Princeton University. Nomi Stone is a poet, anthropologist, and author of a previous book of poems, Strangers Notebook. Winner of a 2018 Pushcart Prize, Stones poems appear recently in POETRY Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Princeton University.
This event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts and Humanities Council
