My mother was a freedom fighter

Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

Nocturama

A dazzling second collection from “an immensely gifted poet” (Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine).Spanning Appalachia to California, Will Brewer’s new poems attempt to make sense of some of life’s darkest turns: a father’s bout with leukemia, the slog of mental illness, a friend’s early deat...

O body

A collection of moving and tender poems that delves into questions of masculinity, fatherhood, home, and learning to live in and love one’s own body.  In his second full-length poetry collection, Chicago-born poet Dan “Sully” Sullivan considers the male body—its momentum and privilege when moving...

Opera fever

The poems in Chelsey Minnis’s Opera Fever read like a dangerous bodice-ripper, glamorous and haunted. From the covid claustrophobia in which they were written, these poems sharply maneuver from steamy observations to gravitas (and then some groaning under the fur coats../Let's be very hard on vei...

Poetry and protest

A vital original collection of the interviews, poetry, and essays of the much-loved anti-apartheid leader.

Por siempre

A visual and verbal narrative of the grit and gentleness in Southwestern Latinx communities through photography by Antonio Salazar and poetry by José Olivarez, author of Citizen Illegal. Guns, tattoos, pit bulls, and cars appear alongside a tender aubade, a couple holding hands, a baby bathing in...

Remedies for disappearing

A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker’s experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and women. In this beautiful debut from an exciti...

Rifqa

Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of I...

Savings

"Rather than painting a picture of Indian life, Linda Hogan resurrects its symbols and uses them in new ways. The power of the scorpion or the elk in Hogan's work comes...form her orchestrating of these images. This book is startling."--Hungry Mind Review

Schtick

Poet Kevin Coval offers both tragedy and comedy in this stirring exposition on the Jewish American cultural experience.

Smoking lovely

Smoking Lovely is one of the foundational texts of anti-gentrification Nuyorican literature, inspiring a whole generation of poets in their attempts to survive and subvert the neoliberal city.

Super sad black girl

In her brilliant debut collection of poetry, Diamond Sharp navigates questions of mental health, grief, and joy through her speaker’s sardonic and playful imagination.

Surface tension

"Equi is that rarity--someone with natural comic talent who is also capable of delicacy and lyricism."--David Lehman, Newsday

Text messages

Text Messages is a survival guide for our anxious age from Iraqi-Canadian rapper and multi-media artist Yassin 'Narcy ' Alsalman.

The body family

Hope Wabuke weaves together a coming-of-age narrative of a Black girl, the child of immigrants fleeing from genocidal terror to America.

The book of medicines

Combining the rich imagery of her Indian heritage with the wisdom of Native female spirituality, Linda Hogan’s new collection of stunningly beautiful poems is a tonic for modern times.

The boy who catches wasps

Poetry in which the societal is entwined with the individual, the Chinese enmeshed in the global.

The breakbeat poets

A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.

The breakbeat poets vol. 2

A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

The breakbeat poets vol. 3

A BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.

The breakbeat poets vol. 4

A BreakBeat Poets anthology that opposes silence and re-mixes the soundtrack of the Latinx diaspora across diverse poetic traditions.

The cædmon manuscript

The Cædmon Manuscript is one of three extant anthologies of English Christian poetry produced in England before 1000 CE.

The earth is not flat

The gate of memory

An anthology of poetry on Nikkei incarceration, written by descendants of the WWII prisons and camps A tribute to the 150,000 people incarcerated by the United States and Canada during WWII, this anthology is the first of its kind. The poetry expresses a range of experiences and perspectives fro...

The limitless heart

Encompassing the breadth of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s astounding career, The Limitless Heart is a time capsule of the boundless love, care, grief, and fortitude that make her work so stirring. With deep empathy, thoughtfulness, charisma, and lyricism, Boyce-Taylor’s work explores questions of immigra...

The negroes send their love

An extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. “How big is a home?” “What is space without reaching?” “You ever think about being remembered?”Posing questions that belie their simplicity, Sean Hill’...

The sign of the swan

This scholarly monograph is an original philosophical reflection on poetics, elucidating the metaphysical and mystical potential of poetic language as quasi-religious revelation. It develops a theory of the symbol based on French Symbolist Poetry as culminating in Stéphane Mallarmé.

There are trans people here

There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture.

Too much midnight

Krista Franklin’s work emerges at the intersection of poetics, popular culture, and the dynamic histories of the African Diaspora.

Transitions

New and selected sonnets from a treasured poet who “insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice” (W. S. Merwin). Over the course of her celebrated fifty-year career, Marilyn Hacker has continuously proven to ...

Truth, war and the dream game

A dynamically shifting vision of the world made visible in intricate explorations that seem to recall Kafka’s castle halls, and the twists and turns in Borges’s labyrinth.Utilizing the ancient tradition of the parable, Lawrence Fixel presents narrators in settings with which they are uncomfortabl...

Unfinished building

Toby Olson considers poetry no less than good talk about important things. With imagery as accessible as the most ordinary of birds and the commonest weather, he performs an alchemy of language. Unfinished Building shows us it is the details that make up a life, that hold the clues to meaning.

Voices of the future

NBA star Etan Thomas helps give voice to the poetic and socially conscious ideas of young people.

We the gathered heat

A beautiful anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label “Asian American and Pacific Islander” in today’s world. In this thoughtfully curated, intergenerational collection, poets of multiple langua...