Six

Why SIX? Because the collection is composed of six poems. And because the perspective in this collection shifts like a kaleidoscope, each image viewable from six possible angles. And because these poems, like the prevalent hexagons of the natural world—honeycombs, for instance—derive strength fro...

Ship of fool

Sex world

Ron Koertge eagerly tries his talented hand at Flash Fiction. In “BFF,” a teenage girl from the near-future orders friends from Amazon. A few pages later, a robot who travels what is left of the world and observes through “well-engineered eyes” claims that the sound of turbines is his lullaby. A ...

Seed across snow

Sea salt

Birds of paradise lost

*Finalist for the California Book Award* The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America’s newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay...

Bin laden's bald spot: & other stories

Bestiary

Becoming lyla dore

The provocative fall and rise of a beautiful silent film star recounted through a series of persona poems that are indelibly lush and cinematic.

Beasts and violins

Barbaric mercies

Water & salt

The poems in Water & Salt travel across borders between cultures and languages, between the present and the living past.

This is not a skyscraper

This Is Not a Skyscraper examines New York City through a surrealist lens. Like the title of Magritte’s painting, “This is not a pipe,” these poems question perceptions of the metropolis. While NYC entices talents that swarm its stages, museums, runways, and readings, throngs of outsiders live on...

There are no names for red

Tokyo bay traffic

Beasts behave in foreign land

Winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize, as chosen by Lorna Dee Cervantez, Ruth Irupé Sanabria’s second collection of poetry, Beasts Behave In Foreign Land, examines the internal landscape of a family confronting the psychological and emotional aftershocks of genocide and exile.

How to get over

The reader journeys through these poems, circa 1787 to 2013, and emerges realizing that everything is connected—the ways we live, lie, love, and die—the ways we all get over.

Homing pigeon

Wild greens

“It is a difficult thing to write simply and eloquently with quiet and intense passion in ways that are unflinchingly personal but also fold the reader into the depths of history and myth. This is partly what Adrianne Kalfopoulou’s poems do for me. They are also celebrations reminding me how word...

Who the hell is stew albert

This quiet sun

What to eat, what to drink, what to leave for poison

Instead of indonesia

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The last jewish virgin

The hundred fathom curve

The devil's punchbowl

The dancer and the dance: a book of distinctions

The crawford county sketchbook

A waking dream of rural Southern life centering on the struggle between good and evil, virtue and desperation.

The cento

As Gertrude Stein might have put it, a cento is a collage is a mix tape is a video montage. This hypothetical description is fitting in a number of ways. Although the cento form is ancient—in existence since at least the days of Virgil and Homer—it was also used to striking...

The blue box

How to carry bigfoot home

House arrest

Horses on drums

Homeland

Histories of bodies

Highway trade

Kinship of clover

The environment is dying and the plants have chosen you to save them. You’re going to make a difference . . . but at what cost? From the author of House Arrest and On Hurricane Island comes an activist page-turner Ann Hood (The Knitting Circle) calls “a must read.”

American fractal

Alphabet of love

All of you on the good earth

Civilization is possible

Air kissing on mars

Our vanishing

After the dam

Set against the majestic backdrop of the Wisconsin northwoods, After the Dam follows new mother Rachel Clayborne in a doomed chase after the girl she once was toward a harrowing encounter with the woman she now is.

The luba poems

Adamantine

From odes to remarkable artists and activists, to a lyrical response to her own breast cancer treatment, Naomi Foyle’s third collection celebrates women’s tenacity and luster. Deploying a dazzle of forms from the sonnet to visual poetry, the book’s opening sequence honours the achievements of wom...