Nomi Stone

is an award-winning poet and anthropologist. Author of two full-length poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo 2019), a finalist for the Julie Suk Award, based on two years of fieldwork she conducted across the Middle East and America. Her first academic monograph (an Atelier Prize Finalist) Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire is forthcoming (University of California Press, 2022).

Nation Poetry

The Average Driver Will Be in a Car Accident Once Every Eighteen Years The Average Driver Will Be in a Car Accident Once Every Eighteen Years

  Moonship comes when I’m on the road, A/C on, music on, the inside still in, then—zam—wind, unshielded crescents of moon, the body gone, tearing through space at 60 miles per…

Nov 17, 2022 / Poems / Nomi Stone

For My Wife, Who Is Writing a Collection of Stories Called ‘Homescar’

For My Wife, Who Is Writing a Collection of Stories Called ‘Homescar’ For My Wife, Who Is Writing a Collection of Stories Called ‘Homescar’

Rocks are notched with sea limpets, and the pockets limpets leave once they’ve sealed into the rock and know themselves most inside it, shell swelling, softening the stone. You can…

Jul 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Nomi Stone

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