Nicole Callihan
May 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Order Slip
Magic City Books is excited to welcome Nicole Callihan for a free, in-store event on Monday, May 19 to celebrate her new book of poetry, Slip. This event will take place in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer Street in the Tulsa Arts District.
Slip will be published by Saturnalia Books on March 15, 2025 and available for sale at Magic City Books. You can purchase a copy online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/slip/3250
About Slip
Inventive and dynamic, Nicole Callihan’s fourth poetry collection, SLIP, navigates midlife with stick in hand and tongue in cheek. As Ellen Bass writes, Callihan “turns recurrent obsessions like children, husband, mother, laundry, time, art, and body into poems of elastic syntax and shapes–psalms, prose, lyric, narrative.” Whether looking back at her girlhood, counting out almonds, or singing herself (yet another) birthday song, Callihan’s luminous linguistics send us on an expansive journey. Sometimes dreamlike, sometimes raucous, these poems teach us how much can be held in a life and on the page.
Nicole Callihan was born in Hickory, North Carolina and raised in the Carolinas, South Dakota, and finally, Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1995, she received a BA from University of Oklahoma and went on to study at New York University where she received an MA in Poetry (1998) and an MFA in Fiction (2005). Callihan is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently, chigger ridge, selected by Sandra Lim for the Tenth Gate Prize which honors a midcareer poet for a ” sustained dedication to developing a unique poetics.” (The Word Works, 2024). Other books include This Strange Garment (Terrapin, 2023); the dual language collaboration, Translucence, with Samar Abdel Jaber (Indolent, 2018); SuperLoop (Sock Monkey, 2014); and several chapbooks including two collaborations with Zoë Ryder White, ELSEWHERE (Sixth Finch 2020) and A Study in Spring (Rabbit Catastrophe, 2015) which won the 2015 Baltic Writing Residency Prize. A frequent collaborator with artists around the world, she has received fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Ludwig Vogelstein, and Bethany Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Callihan taught in New York University’s expository writing program for twenty years, where she was a clinical associate professor and a visiting scholar to NYU Abu Dhabi. She lives in Miami.
