Roger Smith asks: "How is cancer like racism?" Fresh from the spoken-word tradition, Roger Smith investigates justice in the Black Lives Matter era, often seen through the lens of the cancer survivor. How to cure the cancers of our country? Smith t...
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Poet Michael Klein's New & Selected work! Tour the brilliant, wild, and careful career of poet Michael Klein, from a generous serving of new work all the way back to his 1993 debut, titled 1990. The HIV crisis, the ecstasy of our bonds with both th...
Poetry: Emily August's debut explodes our ideas about biraciality and why institutions are larded with violence. This ferocious vision of personal and cultural histories enters us through dark-wooded stories, folkloric in their eerie clarity. This b...
New collection from poet Debora Kuan: motherhood, survival, marriage, and the Moon Goddess. What else could you need? In her third and most intimate collection yet, Debora Kuan interrogates what it means to be a woman of color who is both a captive...
Ed Madden’s newest collection explores growing up queer in the fundamentalist South. Selected by Timothy Liu for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Madden's mastery of the American lyric combines intellect, heart, and courage as he explores growin...
A love letter to queer desire, to language, and to loss, Kevin McLellan's latest collection spins intimacy and loss into new a strand: titanium-tough, precise and fine as spider-silk. Kevin McLellan's newest collection of poems captures an era (a l...
Doug Ramspeck's award-winning 9th book takes the fierce attachments and the violence of boyhood and transforms them to tenderness and a transcendent vision. Gritty poems of boyhood alternate with explorations of the "other," worlds where mother and...
Winner of the 2022 Washington Prize. In masterfully varied forms, Naomi Mulvihill explores interlocked themes of violence, longing, gender, beauty, despair, and the mysterious fact of our persistence in the face of it all. These poems explore mult...
An anthology of poets responding to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons in creative form, with room for the reader to join in. Each using a section of Stein's Tender Buttons as inspiration, a far-flung community of poets responds with experiments, int...
A first poetry collection from Cave Canem fellow Nikia Chaney, this book percolates with experiment, energy, and love as the poet tackles race, poverty, aging, sexism, and more with wild insight and deft skill. Nikia Chaney sets form on fire in the ...
A new collection singing the survival and thriving of Black women, chosen by Cynthia Arrieu-King for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. "In the spirit of magic, potions, and inventory, this book calls up the language of both science and witchery to...
"In this stirring collection of poetry, Anatoly Molotkov considers a country on the brink of collapse, plagued by virus and violence, haunted by history, asking of himself—and us— 'How do I move / with my love / caught in concrete…How do I sing with...
“THE LONELIEST WHALE BLUES sings a spiraling, haunting song of both the perdurability and fragility of historical, biological, and geological cycles with a poetic voice that is by turns tender, whimsical, and urgent. In traditional Japanese haibun a...
"In THE SLIDING BOAT OUR BODIES MADE, we see the ecology of compassion and hopefulness, a fragile latticework made of the concern for how all things might fall away in a world seeming to be too full of loss. With a meticulousness like the Zen of poe...
A story of illness, healing, and regeneration into joy.Fiercely the speaker shares her life as a woman with cancer, the invasions and intimacies of the battle against it, the healing, and the quest to make new life for herself and her family. Says C...