Poetry. Women's Studies. California Interest. "At the same time expansive and intimate, Kelly Grace Thomas's debut collection navigates issues of loss, family, and agency. BOAT BURNED invites us to witness the pains and subsequent joys of rebirth—'T...
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Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. In her debut poetry collection, IF THE FUTURE IS A FETISH, Sgro explores a vision of motherhood severed from conventional ideas of partnership and family. Between tales of fraught monogamy and fleeting first...
Poetry. The poems in EVERYTHING BREAKING/FOR GOOD swerve through the world as they ache for something better, something that might be but isn't...at least not yet, and maybe never. Matt Hart's newest collection asks can a creative life really make i...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Tanya Grae's UNDOLL is a debut poetry collection that explores the ways we can be confined—by image, society, tradition—how we often play roles for ourselves, for others. Experimenting through form and rhythm, Grae's brave q...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. STAY is a broad American exploration of what it costs to remain in a place, an idea, an identity, as well as what it costs to leave these things. Grounded in American music, these poems dig into and flee fro...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Diannely Antigua's debut collection, UGLY MUSIC, is a cacophonous symphony of reality, dream, trauma, and obsession. It reaches into the corners of love and loss where surv...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Metaphysical in scope, transcendent in language, THIS, SISYPHUS makes malleable received forms and rhyme to articulate what it means to face incalculable loss. Centered on the death and subsequent repatriation of a sailor wh...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Set along the U.S.-Mexican border, CEREMONY OF SAND is an examination of hiddenness, of those things the borderlands want kept secret, of the banal violence that is both internally created and forced upon it. The collection e...
Poetry. Women's Studies. A FALLING KNIFE HAS NO HANDLE is a love letter to indulgence, both of the palate and the heart. The poems collected here offer a reluctant romantic's guide to trusting that what's on the menu will be enough. They ask how muc...
Poetry. Women's Studies. California Interest. Part of being a good squatter is learning to inhabit any space, to find a home in anything. The poems of GUTTER, Lauren Brazeal's debut collection, do just this: inhabiting each form given, whether game ...
Poetry. Writing. Pedagogy. Would you like a blueprint for running successful workshops? Are you looking for innovative and interactive writing prompts? How about exercises specifically designed for poems by some of our most exciting contemporary voi...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Lucian Mattison's poetry collection, REAPER'S MILONGA, is one that holds Lorca's notion of duende at its core. The reader travels from places, both real and imagined, with the cloaked figure of Death as her guide. Poems range...
Poetry. SONS OF ACHILLES questions what it means to be in and of a linage of violence. In this collection, Nabila Lovelace attempts to examine the liminal space between violence and intimacy. From the mythical characters that depict and pass down a ...
Poetry. Like most young black girls growing up in Northern California, Mahogany L. Browne tussles with ideas of femininity & gender roles, addiction & the prison industrial complex, sexuality & seclusion. Inquiries of the living and dying survive on...
Poetry. Brandon Courtney's INADEQUATE GRAVE spins together like slits on a zoetrope, animating a single, tragic moment: the drowning of a best friend in the Arabian gulf during the Iraq War. Mulling over that moment the way only a mind under grief's...