In this Square Books event, Aimee Nezhukumatathil reads from her fifth poetry collection, Night Owl (Ecco, 2026), and talks about the themes of darkness and nighttime in her poems. Nezhukumatathil’s book is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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