Volando bajito

Waifs and strays

From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting Waifs and Strays.

Walking the dog's shadow

Selected by Tony Hoagland as winner of the ninth annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.

Want

A stunning new poetry collection from the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize-winner, selected by Stanley

We generous

We the jury

“A book of dark and sometimes surreal love poems from the heart of a man to his wife, his children, his nation, and his past.” —JERICHO BROWN

What to eat, what to drink, what to leave for poison

What we carry

Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration.

When i was a poet

An autobiographical masterpiece by a prominent Beat poet, who Ferlinghetti has deemed "one of the greats."

Where river meets ocean

Where River Meets Ocean is the poetic junction of love, politics, creative action, and self-discovery.

Where shadows will

First volume of new series, City Lights Spotlight: selected poems by a major avant-garde woman poet.

Why to these rocks

Fifty years of poems from the Community of Writers’ poetry workshop The Community of Writers (formerly Community of Writers at Squaw Valley) celebrates fifty years of its annual summer poetry workshop in Olympic Valley, California, with this collection of one hundred and forty poems first compos...

Wilder

“Long after I finished reading Wilder, I was in grief that its beauty had ended, and also in grief over the spoiled world it describes.” —RICK BAROT

Winter stranger

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert’s Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us.In the cold, seminal countryside of eastern Washington, a boy puts a bullet through his skull in a high school parking lot. A...

Wisp

A dual-language collection examining impermanence as the source of beauty from one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets writing in German.Over the course of a partnership spanning nearly two decades, poets Jan Wagner and David Keplinger have crafted a distinctly collaborative exchange between...

Women in public

Women in Public dismantles and reassembles the humor, absurdity, and terror that inform interactions with gender, sexuality, and amorous consumption.

Wonder and wrath

Original and translated poetry from award-winning poet and critic A. M. Juster.

Woods and clouds interchangeable

Humorous and wildly inventive poems from a master of absurdist poetic theater.

Xoeteox

Electric poems from a long-time performance and visual poet delivered through innovative layouts and designs.

You and three others are approaching a lake

A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure.In a world where we find “everything helping itself / to everything else,” Anna Moschovakis incorporates Craigslist ads, technobabble, twentieth-century ethics texts, scientific resear...

You and yours

A beloved, best-selling American poet with an international reputation celebrates the sacred in all things.

Your father on the train of ghosts

A year of epistolary writing culminating in one of the most extensive collaboration books in the history of American poetry.