C. p. cavafy

The acclaimed translation of the most important modern Greek poetC. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) is the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard’s celebrated English tran...

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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 ...

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...

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...

My voice sought the wind

“I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else,” says Susan Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian American author and social activist, in the introduction to her first book of poems, My Voice Sought the Wind. This new work followed her highly acclaimed novel, Mornings in Jenin, which has been translated i...

The tongue i dream in

The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.This book of poems, stories, and essays draws together examples illustrating a mind immersed in Black legends and white myths, and in the growing realization of our place in the world and time, and in irresistib...

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...

Wisdom teeth

To consider Wisdom Teeth is to acknowledge inevitable movement, shift, and sometimes pain. There’s change hidden just below the surface and, like it or not, once it breaks, everything has to make room. So goes the aptly titled debut poetry collection from poet and educator Derrick Weston Brown. W...

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...

Her wilderness will be her manners

An electrifying feminist poetics combining language and visual collage to explore gender, landscape, taxidermy, and the idea of a “natural body”An innovative book-length poem that delves into the intricacies of natural history dioramas, taxidermy, landscape, and women naturalists, Her Wilderness ...

On poetry, culture, and democracy

“Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.”—Robert LowellTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorFor Robert Pinsky, poetry’s individual, human scale...

Well waiting room

A collection of poems that contemplate the bureaucracy of the mind through interior political cabinetsTaking its name from the banal, purgatorial space outside (but inside) a doctor’s office, Well Waiting Room imagines the conversations we have with ourselves at this liminal site as an exchange ...

The ghetto, and other poems

At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York’s Lower East Side.

Wandering mind and metaphysical thoughts

This English-Chinese bilingual edition is the complete first book of poems written by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. His poems offer an array of snapshots over various themes where politics, dreams, and metaphysical concerns are mixed. With original art works by Gao, this collection advances hi...

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...

Days when i hide my corpse in a cardboard box

Ruminations on Hong Kong and its ever-changing borders and dislocations

Doppelgangbanger

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

The seasons

Merrill Gilfillan projects an elegant cool, and ... a savage intensity.... He has the gift.--Poetry Project Newsletter

A complex sentence

In A Complex Sentence, Marjorie Welish builds immersive intertextual environments as she questions the canon of modernist poetry and the ways we talk about poetics.In her sixth collection with Coffee House, Welish continues to explore rhetorical practices such as diagramming, inscription, and quo...

Collected poems

Anne Stevenson's Collected Poems draws on sixteen previous collections to showcase the work of this major American and British poet.Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight, her poems continually question how we see and think about the world. They are incisive as w...

How to laugh

New work from one of the brightest and most radical contemporary British poets.

Greatest hits

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Grass roots

Xiang Yang’s poetry stands as elegant testimony to the contemporary Taiwan experience and identity, imbued with cultural details.

Breathing technique

Knežević fearlessly addresses contemporary concerns (refugees, colonialism, women’s issues) and personal ones (love, life’s choices) with poignancy and wit.

The summer of dead birds

A queer poet documents depression and grief in this autobiographical novel-in-verse.  how does a person dislodge the scenesthat burn inside them like arsoned cars? Ali Liebegott is reeling from a fresh, painful divorce. She wallows in grief and overassigns meaning to everyday circumstance, clingi...

Far out west

"39 poems of humour and duress, written while attending to remnants of childhood on satellite waves."

Everything must go

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

My village

A farmer and environmentalist poet who writes of rural life in Taiwan in simple, colloquial poems that depict his vanishing world.

Night truck driver

A rebel “outsider” poet reflects on life, evil, love, and death, while “observing the advance of darkness.”

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.

October dedications

A major English-language collection by one of the seminal figures of the "Misty" Chinese poets.

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.

Enthusiasm

Poetry that seeks to know the worlds we live in.

I can almost see the clouds of dust

Enigmatic and sensual, Yu Xiang's writings place her at the forefront of contemporary Chinese poetry

Lorca: selected poems

A new dual-language edition of poems from Spain’s greatest modern poet and dramatist.Federico García Lorca was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, ...

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.

Homes

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior HOMES. Moheb Soliman traces the coast of the Great Lakes with postmodern poems, exploring the natural world, the experience of belonging, and the formation of identity along borders.Moheb Soliman’s HOMES maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky...

The heavy bear who goes with me

The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me is the ultimate reader’s companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from five centuries with lively companion commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. The heavy bear can be many things which go with the bearer: another self or alter ego, the bur...

Build yourself a boat

“Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder—a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question.” —Kathy Engel This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a lo...

Hippodrome

Komelj eschews the intrigues of the contemporary poetry world for a deep, personal engagement with his culture’s language and art.

For the shrew

Glazova invites us to perceive the unfolding natural world with all our senses—a bee, a swamp, the icy north—and to consider our place in it. Her concise and sensory poems elucidate not just a moment in nature, but the flow of time. A snow-covered bud, a clod of earth, an animal’s fur, and human...

The defiant muse

The only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women's poetry available anywhere.   This unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women’s poetry available anywhere in the world.The poems in The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese F...

Salute to singing

Bilingual collection of 100 gem-like varations on Chuvash and Tatar folkloric themes.

At port royal

Awarded the 2000 Boston Review Poetry Prize.

Posts

A rising star in Polish letters explores faith, eros, death and the making of poems in these deft, personal musings.

Mapping the future

Mapping the Future offers new work by all 30 writers supported by The Complete Works project, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode and Karen McCarthy Woolf. In 2008 the lev...

Beaver hills forever

An irreverent and playful novella of Métis voices that reflects the complexities of contemporary prairie life Conor Kerr's 2024 novel Prairie Edge was a finalist for both the Giller Prize and the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize. His latest book, Beaver Hills Forever, takes a ...

The roots of wisdom

One of China's "top ten" poets observes nature, relationships and self in powerful and moving lyrics.

Late beauty

One of Israel's most celebrated poets, Tuvia Ruebner celebrates his ninetieth birthday with this bilingual trade paper edition.