Poets Diane Callahan and David Dixon take a conversational approach to ‘The Ship and the Storm’
The Columbus writers will celebrate the release of their new collection with a poetry collage party at Urban Arts Space on Saturday, Sept. 20.
The Ship and the Storm, a new collection from Diane Callahan and David Dixon, doubles as a poetic conversation between the writing and romantic partners, their verses frequently offering varying shades on similar themes.
Ping-ponging between the two, the book delves into diverging masculine/feminine energies (Callahan’s “Makeup Palette” and Dixon’s “Reading Bukowski on the Bus”), recounts days from differing perspectives (“When the Power Goes Out” and “Office Christmas Party”), and unpacks universal mysteries both wondrous and horrific (“Things I Never Want to Understand” and “The Projects of Distracted Gods”).