BROTHER NERVOSA is Ron Palmer's highly anticipated second collection of poetry. BROTHER NERVOSA, explores questions of gender, sexuality, and queerness, the relationships between poetry, theater, and film, and wrestle with grief, violence, love, an...
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“Against the demands of our neoliberal, extractivist hungers, Yingling insists on carving out a space for mutualism and obligation, forgiveness and recovery. [...] THE FIRE ROAD is a devotion: to the shape of the poem, the shape of the body, the sha...
"Equal parts attention as an act of prayer and tough-minded honesty, Aylor’s poems trouble affection for the hard-bitten world they create." —Pimone Triplett CLOSE RED WATER is a book about leaving home and the complex processes of memory, haunting...
"Pui Ying Wong is a master of the startling metaphor." —Lee Slonimsky “The poems of FANLING IN OCTOBER by the brilliant metaphorist Pui Ying Wong sneak up on you. Her comparisons turn like tiny keys to open vast centuries where days stretch like ny...
These poems are unruly, naughty, looking for trouble, not poems you’d want to recite at a traditional Thanksgiving table where proper etiquette rears its gagged head. These poems sample cultural Highs and Lows, unafraid to rhyme “Rumi & Shams” with...
The book traces the late life, addiction, and death of the speaker’s father, a Los Alamos scientist, living along the banks the Animas River in rural northern New Mexico. The tone is elegiac, the poems rooted in the particularity of a place. Repeati...
PERSON, PERCEIVED GIRL is poetry collection that explores Blackness—specifically queer, Midwestern, disabled, and transracially adopted Blackness. Poems in this manuscript explore identity, lineage, and body. “The theological underpinnings of the ...
THE ARCHIVE IS ALL IN PRESENT TENSE attempts to capture the feeling of archival research, which, despite being an attempt to access information about the past, has a way of infusing the present; research unfolds in real time as you touch and handle ...
In FRANK DARK, philosophical and psychological investigation plumb many forms of tangible and visceral experience. The collection engages the environmental crisis, the pandemic, and historical and current turmoil. At once a death story and a love s...
Poetry. "A highly original vision, voice, concept, style, language and image all working together to produce a world inside our world. Filled with fire and violence, mystery and magic, the loneliness of laundromats, rented houses, suicide, cornfield...
Poetry. Derek Pollard's ON THE VERGE OF SOMETHING BRIGHT AND GOOD is a tight ball of golden strings. Each thread pulled reveals a playful night, a delicious taste of skin, a twilight seen through glass. 'The fruit is a dream we hold to,' he writes, ...
LAMBDA nomination in Best Gay Poetry 2022Miguel Murphy's poems—terse, grave, erudite—offer gleaming surfaces for a reader to savor: traces of a heroic, louche tradition, where Novarro, Genet, Lorca, Pasolini, and other role models still make possibl...
Poetry. "'How strange it is to live in these bodies /and pretend we are not judged,' writes Becka McKay in her newest collection, THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION. McKay's imagination takes us far away from our earthly bodies through dreamscapes of...
Poetry. "In this wry, intimate, and heartbreaking collection, Chris Hayes records the exact weight of generational trauma, mental and physical illness, addiction, marital alienation, self alienation: that is, all the general malfuckery that comes wi...
Poetry. In the spirit of Audre Lorde's essay collection Sister Outsider, the charged and direct language of USES OF MY BODY emphasizes black women's experience of erasure, sexual and racial violence, as well as pleasure and healing. The poems are ma...