Caleb Nolen is a poet whose work has appeared in 32 Poems, Bat City Review, Fence, The Georgia Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Afterlight, is set to debut on June 5, 2026, by University of Utah Press.
The collection, which won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, revisit the fraught adolescence of a group of boys growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover, which was designed by Jessica Booth with art from Mike Ousley, alongside a Q&A with Nolen about how it was created.
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