A companion

In this new collection of poem-essays, poet Richard Meier continues his inquiry into daily writings (first presented in 2023, A Duration), exploring the connections between days, moving forward and backward through time.Composed from daily writing practices and years of looping reductions and arr...

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 history of half-birds

Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history’s most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us.Rooted in the Gulf Coast, A History of Half-Birds measures the line between love and ruin. Part poet, part anth...

A life above water

A window that can neither open nor close

An intimate and kaleidoscopic entry in the Multiverse series that excavates survival, storytelling, and coming to terms with an unruly mind.In A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close, the stakes of writing are also the stakes of living. “Though I no longer wanted to die,” writes Lauren Russell, ...

Attached to the living world

More than 150 contemporary poems exploring the intersections of ecological awareness, social justice, and challenges in the world today

Blaze

Blood dazzler

A storm’s-eye view of the devastation that forever changed New Orleans and America.In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina’s transformation into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression 12 developed, through August 28 when...

Bright hunger

A new collection of poetry by one of America's most celebrated lyric poets.

Canyon in the body

Voted by a panel of seventy major critics and poets as one of the best contemporary Chinese writers

Carnival of animals

New animal poems from legendary Hong Kong author Xi Xi

Day's fortune / fortuna del día

Translation of Colombian Poet Carlo Acevedo's Fortuna del día/ Day’s Fortune

Distant water

An exquisite debut poetry collection exploring the way Nez Perce language embodies the inseparable connection of land, sound, and spirit.Drawing its title from the Nez Perce word for ocean, distant water explores the mysterious process through which language is conveyed from one body to another, ...

Dreaming the mountain

The North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ—poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam—and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series.In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master, Tuệ Sỹ is one of Vietnam’s most celebrated ...

Equipoise

A book of poems that reads like a two week vacation at the shore.

Eskatos & the stretched necks of stillness

The English-language debut and foremost work of lauded Nordic poet Mats Söderlund, winner of the 2025 Karin Boye Literary Prize, the 2024 Norrland Literature Prize, and the Swedish Catapult Prize.In a sweeping but intimate blend of ecopoetry, mythology, and political verse, Eskatos & the Stre...

Every atom

The lyric poems in Every Atom explore how identity is formed, the layers of the mother-daughter relationship, and the ravages of dementia.

Floral mutter

A math teacher living 1,000 miles from the literary center of Beijing offers daring, restless nature sonnets, free verse, and genre-bending prose poems.

Fuel

The poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-soaked world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives. Traversing multivalent intimacies from the underworld of California’s Central Valley oil fields to the quotidian domestic and love’s painful retraction, ...

Green-wood

A cultural biography of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, and a cry of mourning for a post-9/11 world of perpetual war and environmental violence. In Green-Wood, the author wanders Brooklyn’s famous nineteenth-century cemetery, where the burial ground becomes a portal through which she can explore ...

Ground water

In this sparkling debut, Matthew Hollis immerses us in the undercurrents of our lives. Love and loss are buoyed by a house full of milk, an orchard underwater, the laws of walking on water. Rainwater, floodwater, flux – the liquid landscapes which shift relentlessly in Ground Water – threa...

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...

Human directional

Following her big hit, American Amnesiac, Raptosh's Human Directional zigzags across consciousness, searing through old patterns of thought and offering.

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.

If today were tomorrow

“My language was born among trees,it holds the taste of earth;my ancestors’ tongue is my home.”—from “The Old Song of the Blood”A legacy of land and language courses through the pages of this spirited bilingual edition, offering an expansive take on the internationally renowned work of Humberto A...

In search of small gods

Named a “Top Ten Bestseller" by the Poetry Foundation and “highly recommended" in Library Journal's starred review. Now in paperback.

In the ice house

Inner verses

From the author of To Give it Up (Sun and Moon Press) which was selected by Barbara Guest for the National Poetry Series, comes Pam Rehm’s Inner Verses, a book of deep gravitas that belies its slim, portable volume. Comprising lyric poems that are attentive to “the underneath mind / growing more ...

J walking through the alphabet

A much-anticipated collection of poet and visionary artist julie ezelle patton’s experiments with text and image.  It’s here! The first ever collection of legendary poet and performer julie ezelle patton collected works. patton, who came into her own as a multidisciplinary artist between the late...

J.h. prynne: poems 2016-2024

J.H. Prynne (1936-2026) was Britain’s leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips and changes of meaning through shifting language. Not since t...

Je nathanael

Je Nathanaël is an endangered text. Neither essay nor poem nor novel nor sex-show, what it takes from language it gives back to the body

Lamentations of nezahualcóyotl

From award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler's timeless verses.A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualcóyotl was a revolutionary ahead of his time. Born in 1402, the ruler—whose name means ‘hungry coyote’ in the Uto-Azte...

Listen to the golden boomerang return

Following their book AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry), CAConrad's Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return shifts its attention from the previous book’s focus on communing with animals who are extinct toward communicating and caring...

Lonespeech

An elemental, uncanny collection of poems translated from one of Sweden’s most influential and beloved poets. In Lonespeech, Ann Jäderlund rewires the correspondence between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan into a series of stark, runic poems about the fraught act of communication and its...

Lucy

The eighth Quarternote Chapbook by winner of the National Book Award and PSA Shelley Memorial Prize.

Migration

Winner of the National Book Award, Migration is the definitive Merwin volume. Now in paperback.

Not for specialists

35 new poems and selections from six previous collections including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Heart's Needle.

Now then

From across the Sierras to the Caribbean to the backyard minutiae of “home,” these poems travel through time and place. Arranged in four movements—Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring—this collection reads like a yearlong meditation, each season a chorus of voices capturing the spirituality of land...

One big time

Lisa Fishman’s latest collection, One Big Time, is a stunning articulation of the author’s “journey-in-place” in the environs around a one-room cabin in Northeastern Ontario over a period of fourteen days in quarantine.Here is the author at her most exacting and exploratory, in poems that hew wit...

Our air

A debut poetry collection about Earth and to Earth that contemplates imposed systems—gender, capitalism, time, wage and exploitation—and how they are mapped onto us, the trees, and the planet.Immersed in a tangled weave of contemporary life where big box stores and suburban parking lots coexist a...

Parallel lives

Michael Lind's poems repay the kind of attention we bring to reading the classics.

Prickly moses

Compelling poems that celebrate language as it encounters the nameless variety of the natural world, from Australia to ItalyAn uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of Simon West’s poetry for nearly twenty years. In this new collection, the Australian poet and Italian...

Rounding the human corners

In her first book of poetry since 1993’s groundbreaking The Book of Medicines, Linda Hogan locates the intimate connections between all living things and uncovers the layers that both protect and disguise our affinities. like the tree I can lose myselflayer after layerall the way down to infinit...

Rue

Fiercely feminist ecopoetry exploring forgotten women naturalists, botanical birth control, and the ongoing cultural pressures women face in rural America.

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

Shadows of houses

H.L. Hix's measured crystalline particles of everyday life melt, moment by moment, into song.

Shoulder season

Exacting, virtuosic lyrics on surviving tough times.With a title that plays upon “shouldering” one’s burden, this equally fanciful and hard-hitting collection captures the uncertainties and economic turmoil of 21st century life, where the mind might still be “a little spa,” but the future “is hed...