Poetry. A SLOW GREEN SLEEP takes the long view: from the prehistoric through the human historic and on to the posthistoric. Voices speak out of fresh and ancient graves, from the recent and distant pasts, and from some possible and probable futures....
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Poetry. Is a Kaputnik addicted to failing or a prophet of our kaputs to come!? In his 5th book of poems, Peter Jay Shippy uses talk—not as it escapes our lips—but as it's heard from inside our skulls, orbiting from ear to ear to ear. He leads us fro...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. MOTHER BODY is an intersectional exploration of the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential to mother. As MOTHER BODY unfolds, it tasks its reader to understand the e...
Poetry. Women's Studies. The poems in Catherine Pierce's new DANGER DAYS celebrate our planet while also bearing witness to its collapse. In poems steeped deep in the 21st century, Pierce weaves superblooms and Legos, gun violence and ghosts, glacie...
Poetry. The poems in Michael Robins's fourth collection grapple with the cadences of language and the implacable push of time. At the threshold where domestic and natural landscapes meet, PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW forges its own path between the ebb and f...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by Natalie Diaz. Whiting Award winner Kayleb Rae Candrilli's second full-length book, ALL THE GAY SAINTS, is a collection of trans joy and resilience. Focused on love, pa...
Poetry. Ecopoetic at its core, Kristi Maxwell's MY MY is concerned about the world, "that abundant stray," and scrutinizes the messiness of humans' relationships to each other and to the nonhuman—how acts of seeing can lift up or erase. Maxwell's se...
Poetry. TAKING THE HOMELESS CENSUS, Alexis Ivy's second poetry collection, begins with her award-winning crown of sonnets concerning her work with the homeless community. This 15-sonnet sequence captures the vulnerable moments of shared humanity. Th...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. At the height of his powers, Timothy Liu's first book since NEW & SELECTED LEGERDEMAIN 1992-2017 (Barrow Street Press, 2018) explores how the necessities of life and art dovetail to open up a ...
Poetry. SANDHOUR, the follow-up to Rob Ostrom's award-winning Ritual and Bit, offers a brave and intimate look at the interiors of family, home, place, trauma, and childhood. With gravitas and deep concentration, the poems of SANDHOUR startle and sh...
Poetry. Native American Studies. Winner of the Saturnalia Books Prize. "Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley has an athlete's feel for moving through poems. Just as the reader settles into an image, Kingsley pivots and plots a new course. In the process we...
Poetry. Martha Silano's latest collection takes celestial flight. GRAVITY ASSIST, the newest collection by Martha Silano, masterfully measures the heights and depths of our earthly visions. Cerebral yet meditative, capacious yet focused, this book s...
Poetry. Dazzling new poems by Star Black. A shocked, funny, tender despondency ripples through Star Black's new collection as it cartwheels from the newspaper headlines after Donald Trump's 2016 victory to the intimacy of personal elegy. A spirited ...
Poetry. Derek Mong's highly anticipated new poetry collection, THE IDENTITY THIEF, is a gathering of voices borrowed and voices lost. These illuminating poems explore how one learns—in an effort to cope, escape, survive, or atone—about the possibili...
Poetry. FOR HUNGER, the follow-up to Margaret Ronda's award-winning first book, PERSONIFICATION, offers a fierce look at the interiors of motherhood, examining what it means to become a mother and lose a mother. Centering on hunger, these vivid and ...