Have you ever read poetry that uses fieldwork and archives to deal with important social and political concerns? Join us for a conversation and poetry reading with Nomi Stone. Stone’s writing is born at the crossroads of her two fields of expertise: poetry and anthropology. Her poetry book Kill Class (2019) and her scholarly text Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (2022) stem from her field research across the United States and the Middle East. By investigating war games in mock Middle Eastern villages that serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, Stone presents a piercing look at the American empire and the consequences of the global war on terror. NPR writes of Kill Class, “[Stone] is able to make this anthropological excavation into something both beautiful and haunting.” At The University of Tulsa, she will also talk about pushing against the binary opposition between research and poetry or fieldwork and life.

The Documentary Poetry Series is sponsored by The University of Tulsa’s Department of English and Creative Writing, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.