· Traci Brimhall is the author of four collections of poetry as well as a children’s book.
· Nomi Stone is a poet and author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook and Kill Class.
ANKENY, Iowa—Two poets headline DMACC’s annual Celebration of Literary Arts this week. Local and national authors continue to read from their works via zoom meetings. One or two authors will read during a one-hour time frame each week.
This marks the 18th year DMACC has held an annual Celebration of the Literary Arts. Last year’s event was cancelled due to the pandemic.
The next event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Wed., March 3 when Traci Brimhall and Nomi Stone read from their works.
Brimhall is the author of four collections of poetry: Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press); Saudade (Copper Canyon Press); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), selected for the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.
Her children’s book, Sophia & The Boy Who Fell, was published by SeedStar Books, and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, Orion The Believer, The Nation, and The New Republic. Her essays have appeared in Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and Gulf Coast. Some of her work has also been featured on PBS Newshour and Best American Poetry 2013 & 2014.
She works as an Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Kansas State University.
Stone is a poet and an anthropologist, and the author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly) and Kill Class (Tupelo)—a book based on two years of fieldwork she conducted within war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America. A former Fulbright scholar and winner of a Pushcart Prize, her poems appear recently in POETRY Magazine, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. In 2018, her poem, “War Poem” was turned into a film in Motion Poems Season 8, “Dear Mr. President,” and her anthropological articles appear in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist.
Stone has an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson, a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia, and an M.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford. Formerly a postdoctoral research fellow in Anthropology at Princeton University, Stone is currently an associate professor at the University of Texas in Dallas.
To attend the readings by Brimhall and Stone, go to the following zoom link: https://DMACC.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UzbsQcZBSRCjcucpaN5lXg.
The zoom meeting is free and open to the public. For more on DMACC’s Celebration of Literary Arts, contact Ankeny Campus Professor and Celebration of Literary Arts Coordinator Marc Dickinson at (515) 964-6221 or madickinson@dmacc.edu.
Selected Writing:
Waiting for Happiness https://poets.org/poem/waiting-happiness
The Solider Takes the Anthropologist to the Shooting Range https://www.poetrynw.org/nomi-stone-the-soldier-takes-the-anthropologist-to-the-shooting-range/
Our Body Breaks Light https://poets.org/poem/our-bodies-break-light
Fledgling https://poets.org/poem/fledgling
Traci Brimhall
Nomi Stone
(contributed article and photos, DMACC)
