Daniel Poppick will read from his new novel, The Copywriter. Described as "A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work," The Copywriter was named one of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 and is praised by Katy Waldman of The New Yorker as a book that "Tune[s] in to the metaphysical dimension of everyday suffering, articulating it with a metrical precision...Poppick's point isn't that everything matters, it's that anything might."

Daniel Poppick is the author of the poetry collections Fear of Description, a winner of the National Poetry Series, and The Police. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Yale Review, BOMB, and elsewhere. He works as a copywriter and lives in Brooklyn.

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