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Alisoun sings
A dystopian feminist experiment in invented English by an internationally known, award-winning poet and artist.
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Beautiful aliens
The first retrospective collection of writing, illustrations, and comics by a hero of the Gay Liberation movement and Bay Area underground writing.
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Outline of my lover
The twentieth anniversary edition of an early autofiction classic. On the fringes of the music scene in a Southern college town, a lonely young student driven to flee a troubled adolescence pursues and forms a life-altering relationship with an acclaimed artist-musician. Their understanding dev...
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Proxies
A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography.Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting, Man Roulette, the Locus A...
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Court of the dragon
A new book of poetry exploring domesticity, desire, and dreaming by the Queens Poet Laureate
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Shifting the silence
A heart-rending meditation on aging, grief, and the universal experience of facing death.
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Plastic
How the autobiography of plastic became the autobiography of all of us
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Emporium
Aditi Machado’s lush poetic investigation of transnational and trans-lingual modes which received the 2019 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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A little more red sun on the human
A selection of poems by celebrated poet Gillian Conoley that spans her arresting body of work: from the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood toward an encompassing inquiry into spirit and matter, individual and state. FINALIST for the California Book Awards
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Art in time
A collection of hybrid essays on landscape and visual art that implicitly recognizes our obligations to the earth and presents the earth in ways that make others recognize them too.
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Active reception
A vibrant work of lyric, conceptual, and confessional poetic modes pitched to enact a queer politics of liberation
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The she said dialogues
A reprint of the intersectional black feminist classic by the late poet and performer Akilah Oliver.
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The revisionist & the astropastorals
The paperback edition of the author’s collected poems, which restores to print and prominence the work of the elusive poet Douglas Crase, best known for his award-winning collection The Revisionist.
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The sunflower cast a spell to save us from the void
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award in PoetryFinalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual PoetryA magnetic and spellbinding debut poetry collection that speaks in the language of dreams.The poems in The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void read like dispatches from the...
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Unsex me here
“A fairy tale, in the classic, sparkling, and powerful ways." —Michelle TeaIf Aurora Mattia is a switchboard operator, then Unsex Me Here is her call log. Please hold. There’s someone on the other line. A spider, a sibyl, an angel, a mermaid, a goddess, or an ex-girlfriend.Unsex Me Here is a pray...
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Nova scotia house
Winner of the 2026 Lambda Literary Award in Gay FictionShortlisted for the 2025 Goldsmiths PrizeNamed a 2025 Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Guardian Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era, both a love story and a lament.In this prof...
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Crocosmia
A revelatory novel (or parable) of art, adventure, and radical politics, set in a world on the precipice.A philosophical fable, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the “great turning”—a moment of radical social and ecological change effected in part by the art of her mother, Jane. As Maya...
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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, ...
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I love shopping
Lauren Cook’s I Love Shopping—beloved on the Internet and IRL—is back in print. Chickens have a collective soul. Heaven is full of the skateboarders you kissed in middle school. If the algorithm is its own hell, Lauren Cook, author of the critically (and uncritically) acclaimed Sex Goblin, stands...
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Glove money
A hymn to perversity, a lyric pledge to desire and risk, Glove Money pages through the canon to “seed its sugar in your dreams.” In this joyful and irreverent exploration of the role of poet-as lover, Sophia Dahlin plays Sappho, O’Hara, romantics and troubadours, assembling a self seaworthy of ro...
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Monk fruit
In Monk Fruit, Edward Salem prowls the edges of prophecy and punch line, like Rumi on acid.Edward Salem is a poet who knows the void but refuses its totalizing darkness, choosing instead to light matches in its depths. Salem reveals, then expands, worlds with each poem. From Detroit to Gaza, the ...
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Which walks
A series of poems that explores walking, writing, and making as divinatory practices.Documenting (and interrogating) the poet’s daily walks, Which Walks investigates the twin practices of walking and art-making while aging. Gender is also a central concern in this intensely feminist work. Moriart...
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Elixir
A new and selected collection of poetry from a legend of San Francisco’s literary community.From the early days of Gay Liberation to innovations in contemporary verse, Aaron Shurin’s has been a singular voice in American poetry. His work has unwaveringly maintained lyric presence while at the sam...
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Local woman
A pulpy, mytho-poetic dispatch from an “anarchist jurisdiction” that explores the liberatory possibilities of community and womanhood. Enter: Local Woman, an archetypal figure, fresh from the forest into the streets of Portland, Oregon. She is a Black trans woman, seeking survival and satisfactio...
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I hope this helps
Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashir’s poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields. I Hope This Helps reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an artist, “a twinkle-textured disco-ball Jenga se...
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Material witness
A series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world.In Material Witness, the poet as human subject keeps vigil over the material world as the quotidian unfolds. The line between observer and observed blurs as non-human agency reveal...
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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...
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What i knew
A book-length poem that grapples with the global and the globalized, bringing personal reflection to our tumultuous world.
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The black condition ft. narcissus
An irreverently tender profile of Black trans life surviving & thriving during contemporary political turmoil.
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We both laughed in pleasure
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNERFINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition.We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sulli...
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In praise of fragments
In Praise of Fragments is a collection of various and inter-related works, including a sequence of poems written about Venetian Jewish poet Sarra Copia Sulam (1592–1641), lyric essays about Venice, a suite of poems about Hyderabad, where Alexander lived for many years, and a series of brief sketc...
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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 ...
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Remembering animals
This song cycle is a raw and mutating cry from within an ecological surround undergoing massive upheaval and duress
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The pink trance notebooks
A collection of “addictively readable” daybook poems from a leading cultural critic and poet
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Silk poems
Silk Poems takes silk as subject and form, exploring its cultural, scientific, and linguistic complexities
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Schizophrene
A 2011 Poetry Foundation Staff Pick A fragmented notebook investigates mental illness and trauma in the South Asian diaspora. Schizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the question of a...
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Rock|salt|stone
Rock|Salt|Stone sprays life-preserving salt through the hard realities of rocks, stones, and rockstones used as anchors, game pieces, or weapons. The manuscript travels through Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA, including cultures and varieties of English from all of those places. The poems cent...
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Pasolini's our
A philosophical and epigrammatic meditation on a body immersed in language, history and place, refracted through film, photography and architecture
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Invasive species
A vernacular debut that uncompromisingly journeys towards its sole destination: the decolonization of the imagination
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Lyric multiples
A poet’s capacious and visionary sequence of essays exploring language and aesthetics in contemporary society
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The tribute horse
Nightboat Poetry Prize Winning debut from Brandon Som
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A several world
The greatly anticipated second volume by an innovative and acclaimed talent
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The sonnets
154 contemporary poets offer their own startling and imaginative versions of Shakespeare’s sonnets
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Partially kept
A meditation on language and loss–and the partial nature of both–from a leading contemporary poet
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Paraguayan sea
Paraguayan Sea, a sublime love tale of border and gender travestias, moves in a language that defies immigration regulations
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On walking on
On Walking On looks outward onto—or rather, walks through—the work of various writers for whom walking was or is an important element of daily life. The number of writers who were or are serious walkers is striking, and the connection goes back to antiquity, more recently including Woolf, Nerval,...
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The old philosopher
Winner of the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry
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But it's a long way
A book of arresting poems that inscribes the lived experiences of public housing residents in the southeast of France
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Book of interfering bodies
Ecstatic political poetry and prose engaging notions of bureaucracy by a translator of Chilean poetry
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Ears
The poems in Ears crackle with aplomb and verve as they try to measure the distance between the ear, an organ of touch, and the often chaotic and sometimes orderly vibrations the ears permit the body to receive; in that gap between trust and faith is this collection of poems--a devotional book th...
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