A duration

In the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in bodies—animal, plant, mineral, and word bodies—that are injured and heal, that die and continue in new forms, playing new roles. Here, in his fifth book, Richard Meier ...

A guide for making fragments from diaries

Joshua Beckman’s new book, A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries, gathers poems found or made in various forms—chapter summaries of non-existent books, body poems, an assemblage of his mother’s remarks while painting his portrait, lists of thoughts and things (one of all the uninvited animals...

A measure's hush

A people's history of chicago

Named "Best Chicago Poet" by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history.

A slice from the cake made of air

a slice from the cake made of air processes the physical and mental trauma of abortion coupled with the desires for sexual and emotional love against a backdrop of contemporary culture—with all the sexualization that comes with race, gender, and landscape. From front to back the book is wound thr...

A wild surmise

All the blood involved in love

All the Blood Involved in Love enters the world as the US continues its dramatic fights over reproductive rights.

American inmate

A rigorous and defiant collection that subverts contemporary discourse and representations of incarceration, of hip-hop, and of Asian American culture and literature.  Justin Rovillos Monson’s poetic voice is sharp and irreverent—improvisational yet thoughtful, musical, and tender, achieving a ra...

An amorous discourse in the suburbs of hell

A love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted Levy.

Arabian nights

“This is the best book so far by a quiet, seemingly diffident writer who has held the respect of his peers without ever becoming as ‘visible’ as many distinctly lesser talents. . . . There are large, troubled emotions, and a large philosophical boldness, at work in this book; it becomes more inte...

Ballast

A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery. In 1841, the only successful, large-scale revolt of American-born enslaved people erupted on the ship Creole. 135 people escaped chattel s...

Because you were mine

In their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival. “I’ve decided I can’t trust anyone who uses darkness as a metaphor for what they fear,” poet Brionne Janae writes ...

Bestiary

Birthstones in the province of mercy

Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, a tender, yearning collection of poems that pieces together identity with the different shapes absence can take.“Blurry eyes mean a longing for home,” writes Bo Hee Moon in her prize-winning collection, “but we’re unsure what home means.” A South Korean adoptee...

Black queer hoe

A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.

Blush / river / fox

A raw, sweeping debut collection that interrogates the limits of the human animal and confronts the boundary between fear and freedom.The startling English-language debut of Swedish polymath Anna Nygren is at once a domestic autistic ethnography, a more-than-human erotic pastoral, and an illustra...

Bone light

Can i kick it?

Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of our present and potential futures.

Chopper! chopper! poetry from bordered lives

Citizen illegal

Citizen Illegal is a book composed in the space between Mexico & America. It is a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.

Collisions and transformations

Using chant-rhythm beats to create layers of harmony and meaning, Simon weaves poetry from jazz, sex, and geography.These poems uncover the music in the names of streets in San Francisco, in the controlled passion of jazz rhythms, and the mystery of female sexuality, using chant-rhythm beats to c...

Commando

E’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laureate grapple with sexism, racism, love, and class with a style that announces Lauren as a poet to...

Crossfire

Powerhouse, world-renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin curates the first full-length collection of her poems.

Dear god. dear bones. dear yellow.

Arab womanhood, migration, queerness and Palestine are navigated with striking lyricism and urgency in Noor Hindi’s defiant collection.

Doppelgangbanger

Award-winning poet Cortney Lamar Charleston interrogates the intersections of race, masculinity, and politics through the lens of hip-hop.

Electric arches

Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.

Everything must go

Award-winning poet Kevin Coval and graphic artist Langston Allston bare witness to the effects of gentrification in a Chicago neighborhood.

Florida water

Florida Water is a collection of poems that, like the cleansing waters of spiritual baths, rinse, reflect, and reveal the raw truths that lie within. In this vulnerable meditation, aja monet reflects on her migration to South Florida in search of love, connection, and belonging, unearthing the d...

Four incarnations

From street-gang punk, to navy recruit, to rent-a-Santa, a collection of poems celebrating the possibilities of the individual.Robert Sward has been writing poetry since age fifteen when his couplets informed other members of his Chicago street gang where meetings were to be held. The poems in Fo...

Ghost orchid

Graphite

Patricia Frazier’s Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city- and state-sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose po...

Great balls of fire

A reissue of the New York School poet's 1969 collection. "Padgett's volume is a work of wit, crackling and inventive."--Yale Review

Guernica

A Guernica magazine anthology of the best features, interviews, fiction, poetry and Guernica Daily articles published over the past year.

Guernica #2

A Guernica magazine anthology of the best features, interviews, fiction, poetry and Guernica Daily articles published over the past year.

Horses

“Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book.” —Joy Harjo, author of Washing My Mother's BodyNavajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets’s highly anticipated second collection patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants.“For now, go...

I built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)

I remember death by its proximity to what i love

The long form poem is tethered in folklore and personal narrative, detailing the impact of the destructive mass incarceration system.

If god is a virus

Merging documentary poetry from the epicenter of an epidemic with the story of viruses in the evolution of humanity, If God Is A Virus gives voice to the infected and the virus.

Iggy horse

In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.Whether he is writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the “Italy of God,” or the milking rituals in Kelly Reichardt’...

In the builded place

“Michael Heller’s poetry is the song of metaphysical narrative. In his work the speculative ambiguities of epistemology modulate productively with faceted concretions of felt life. The generous and powerful energies in these poems track the potential transformations inhering in ‘flimsy beatitudes...

L-vis lives!

L-vis Lives! in this poetic novella on the collision or race, art, and appropriation in American culture.

Lamp of the body

Larenopfer

Last mojito, the

Legends from camp

A collection of poems that address jazz music, the Sand Creek Massacre, the internment of Japanese Americans, and other subjects.

Lessons from summer camp

In Lessons from Summer Camp, Jim Tilley takes a fifty-year retrospective look at a ten-year period during his childhood and adolescence to discover what summer camp was really about. In both a wistful and an appreciative look back on the days of our youth, the poems reminisce on the memorable eve...

Loving in the war years

An updated edition combining two classic works of Chicana and queer literature, with a new introduction by renowned writer and luminary, Cherríe Moraga. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, this updated edition of Loving in the War Years combines Moraga’s classic m...

Mama phife represents

Award-winning poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor pays tribute to her departed son Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor of the legendary hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest in this intimate collection.

Mark twain's san francisco

From earthquakes, scandals, and tantalizing bonanzas to elegant ladies blowing their noses in “exquisitely modulated tones,” Mark Twain has left us a vision of San Francisco that is at once fascinating and hilariously familiar.Jumping frogs, high society, San Francisco’s Emperor Norton and the s...

Mercury

Ariana Reines returns with more of her elegant, blisteringly direct attention to culture, lovers, and the deep image.