We’re excited to share this year-end roundup of poetry anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length collections published in 2024 by independent literary publishers! Read our year-end roundups of fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and art and drama as well.
Poetry Anthologies
30 Poems in 30 Days: Poetry Prompts Inspired by Trio House Press Poets
Trio House Press | January 5, 2024
Edited by Kris Bigalk, this book collects work by Trio House Press poets alongside prompts “inspired by various literary devices these poets uniquely employ.”
Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems
Graywolf Press | January 23, 2024
In this “choral arrangement of voices and lineages across decades, languages, styles, and divergences,” fifty Graywolf poets have selected fifty poems by Graywolf poets and offered prose reflections on their selections.
Translated from the Chinese by Yilin Wang
Invisible Publishing | April 2, 2024
In this collection Wang’s translations are featured alongside the original Chinese texts by Qiu Jin, Fei Ming, Dai Wangshu, Zhang Qiaohui, and Xiao Xi, and accompanied by Wang’s personal essays “reflecting on the art, craft, and labour of poetry translation.”
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Milkweed Editions | April 2, 2024
Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón, this is “a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by 50 of our most celebrated contemporary writers.”
Best Literary Translations 2024
Deep Vellum | April 9, 2024
Edited by Jane Hirshfield, this new annual anthology “celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work.”
The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry by Arthur Sze
Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Sze
Copper Canyon Press | April 16, 2024
In The Silk Dragon II, Sze “presents a sophisticated vision of the vitality, diversity, and power of the Chinese poetic tradition.”
Write Until You Cry: A Jimmy Santiago Baca Workshop Anthology
FlowerSong Press | June 11, 2024
This anthology features poems created at the 2023 Jimmy Santiago Baca Writer’s Retreat, where “we were invited to ‘loosen up the subconscious enough to allow the ego to step aside for the writer/poet to write.’ And loosen up we did,” writes editor Veronica C. Evans.
Giant Robot Poems: On Mecha-Human Science, Culture & War
Middle West Press | July 2, 2024
Edited by Randy Brown, this anthology “collects 92 poems involving concepts, narratives, and cautionary tales of ‘human-electro-mechanical-cyber interaction, connection, and competition.'”
We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word
Haymarket Books | August 6, 2024
This anthology features “some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label ‘Asian American and Pacific Islander’ in today’s world.”
FlowerSong Press | September 16, 2024
According to GJV Prasad, this is a “collection for our times–from four women poets who have taken on Shakespeare, and their love, during the pandemic.”
Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets
Translated from the Haitian Kreyòl and French by Danielle Legros Georges
Zephyr Press | September 17, 2024
In this trilingual anthology, poets Marie-Célie Agnant, Maggy de Coster, and Évelyne Trouillot “illuminate the complexity of life in Haiti and its diaspora in the 21st century, particularly for women.”
Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, Iris Nuțu, Gene Tanta, Diana Manole, Monica Cure, Adam J. Sorkin, Andreea Iulia Scridon, and Gabi Reigh
Two Lines Press | September 24, 2024
Featuring eight Romanian poets, including Moni Stănilă, Elena Vlădăreanu, and Constantin Acosmei, this anthology is “a stunning portrait of all our lives in the 21st century—the cycles of outrage, boredom, and ecstasy—as we get to see ourselves from an entirely new viewpoint.”
The Ogre’s Grimoire: Three Years of Red Ogre Review
Red Ogre Review | October 1, 2024
This anthology collects Red Ogre Review’s first three years of poetry spanning magazine issues from October 2021 through September 2024.
The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2024
Edited by William Wright, J. Bruce Fuller, Jesse Graves, and Paul Ruffin, this poetry anthology “serves as a testament to the resilience and beauty found in the works of Appalachian poets, painting a vivid picture of a culture that defies easy categorization.”
Unsolicited Press | December 20, 2024
Edited by Cinnamon Kills First, Keya Mitra Lloyd, José Hernandez, Patricia Valdés, Charles Finn, and Shann Ray, this anthology consists of “poems from poets—nationally and internationally, emerging and award-winning—that stands against the current age of ego enragement, fracture, and disillusionment.”
Poetry Chapbooks
The Bones That Map Us by Maggie Rue Hess
Belle Point Press | February 6, 2024
This poetry chapbook “embodies an intimate yet understated world of grief.”
Home Movies by Michael Wheaton
Fonograf Editions | February 6, 2024
This debut chapbook “is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida.”
Carnegie Mellon University Press | February 13, 2024
This chapbook “offers up a world of juxtapositions, searching for some equilibrium between the sublime and the mundane.”
An Accounting of Days by Charles Seluzicki
Carnegie Mellon University Press | February 13, 2024
An Accounting of Days “gathers poems drawn from moments in personal history” and moves “along a timeline starting with early memory and developing along the stepping stones of experience and aging.”
She Who Sees The World by Christine Morro
Middle Creek Publishing | February 20, 2024
In this chapbook, Morro “weaves words of landscape, flora & fauna to encapsulate the experience, the eternal wisdom that a place of such raw beauty can confer on the human psyche and spirit.”
Country Songs for Alice by Emma Binder
Tupelo Press | March 1, 2024
In this poetry chapbook, “a nonbinary, queer narrator passes through the crucible of love, romance, and heartbreak against the backdrop of rural America.”
Things Will Be Better In Bountiful by Robin Michel
The Comstock Review | April 1, 2024
According to Mary Buchinger, in this poetry chapbook Michel “probes a troubled family story of dereliction and disorder with extraordinary grace, lyricism, and love.”
Love Poems on Bar Napkins by Donald Illich
Red Ogre Review | April 1, 2024
Illich’s chapbook is “a collection of modern sonnets about the indie music scene.”
Scaffold & Mirage by Heikki Huotari
Red Ogre Review | April 1, 2024
Huotari’s chapbook is “a collection of imagistic and philosophical prose poems.”
The Goose Liver Anthology by Ken Anderson
Red Ogre Review | April 1, 2024
Anderson’s chapbook is “a reimagining of Mother Goose rhymes in the style of the Spoon River Anthology.”
The Fabulist | April 4, 2024
In this chapbook, “Shannon finds herself inexorably drawn into a strange, disorientingly absurd underworld of power, coercion, and submission.”
melancholy arcadia by john compton
Small Harbor Publishing | April 11, 2024
According to Jessica Q. Stark, this chapbook is “a holding room for the micro-moments that characterize the deep shit of living.”
Long Day Press | April 16, 2024
This book is “a look into the soul of someone who has never felt at home in their body.”
The Mother Who Couldn’t Describe a Thing if She Could by Shareen K. Murayama
Small Harbor Publishing | April 18, 2024
This chapbook is “obsessed with lineages: what mothers bequeath and what daughters are bequeathed.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
This chapbook “seeks to explore the emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
This debut chapbook consists of “pieces of a parallel day full of promise, disassembled for the ecstasy of reinvention.”
Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements! by Judy Kronenfeld
Bamboo Dart Press | June 20, 2024
This poetry chapbook is a paean to the author’s mid-twentieth century Bronx childhood as the sole offspring of warmly loving—if sometimes provincial, overprotective, or embarrassing—immigrant parents.”
Plumstead Pram Pushers by Katie Beswick
Red Ogre Review | July 1, 2024
This poetry chapbook, set in Southeast London, is “a love poem to desire, pain, and imperfection.”
What the Angel Saw, What the Saint Refused by George Franklin
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | July 8, 2024
In this narrative poetry chapbook, “the angel doesn’t know the purpose of his presence among humans, but grief draws him to itself repeatedly.”
Blood Quantum & Other Hate Crimes by Marsheila Rockwell
Fallen Tree Press | July 15, 2024
According to Chris La Tray, in this chapbook about family, culture, the disappearance of indigenous women and children, and more, Rockwell “has delivered nothing less than a howl of defiance against erasure.”
Black Lawrence Press | July 19, 2024
According to Sabrina Orah Mark, The Fault “sings to a universe in verse that mournfully and beautifully accounts for its fault lines, its rift, its broken notes.”
Choeofpleirn Press | August 1, 2024
The poems in Shrum’s debut chapbook “wrestle with childhood and home, spotlighting firsts and lasts and struggles and joys and all the in-betweens, in ways that feel like a perfect road trip partner for a drive through your life, be it literal or metaphor.”
The Bee Telephone by Jane Wiseman
Choeofpleirn Press | August 1, 2024
According to Amy Beeder, this debut—winner of the 2024 Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Contest—”brims with wit and lyrical invention” and “poems musical and skillfully layered.”
Poetose | August 1, 2024
This poetry chapbook is “the account of a bygone age in which an array of long-forgotten zealots and seekers propound contending visions of the firmament characterized in terms of gemstones peculiar to their schools.”
Gastromythology by Jessica Manack
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | August 12, 2024
This poetry chapbook is “a meditation on how the ways we nourish—or fail to nourish—one another can form an origin story.”
Belle Point Press | October 22, 2024
This poetry chapbook “pieces together one-way conversations that enter a complex world of relationships spanning several decades yet remaining tethered to revelations in ordinary places.”
Black Lawrence Press | October 29, 2024
This debut chapbook “intertwines modern mythology and one of literature’s most enduring figures, Shakespeare’s Ophelia–using both as a vessel to explore betrayal and grief.”
The Month of the Flies by Mirtha Dermisache and Sergio Chejfec
Translated from the Spanish by Rebekah Smith and Silvina López Medin
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
This chapbook is Sergio Chejfec’s response to Mirtha Dermisache’s Book N ° 8: 1970, and “is something of an ‘arbitrary sequel’ to a text which both demands to be read, yet remains silent.”
Singer in the Gray of Jean-Michel by Lynn Shorter
Slate Roof Press | November 15, 2024
According to Zoë Skoulding, Shorter’s collection finds its place “in the ear and throat to echo back through communities forged in Black struggle, art and counter narratives, and forwards into all the sonic possibilities of a world imagined otherwise.”
Against the Regime of the Fluent by Natasha Tiniacos
Translated from the Spanish by Rebeca Alderete Baca
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
The poems in this chapbook are “fragments that dream of becoming ruins of a present still unfolding against the systems of power, (the) body, language or all the systems.”
Lemonade: A Paranormal Investigation by Catalina Vargas Tovar
Translated from the Spanish by Juliana Borrero
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
This poetry chapbook “dives deep into the entrails of mountains, embodies the softness of shadows, intends to think from the darkness like seeds, and hopes to learn to see before language.”
A Flag of No Nation by Tom Haviv
Ayin Press | November 26, 2024
Haviv’s poetry chapbook “traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the twentieth century, navigating the tides of antisemitism, Turkish nationalism, Zionism, and the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire.”
Rimonim: Ritual Poetry of Jewish Liberation by Aurora Levins Morales
Ayin Press | November 26, 2024
Writing in collaboration with various communities “looking to honor, unravel, and rebuild Jewish liturgies,” Levins Morales “brings us a prayer book for the street, for reconstituting the future through our gestures in the present.”
KUMI: New-Generation African Poets
African Poetry Book Fund/Akashic Books | December 3, 2024
Edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, this limited-edition box set of chapbooks is the newest publication in the New-Generation African Poets series and features poetry by Nurain Oládèjì, Sarpong Osei Asamoah, Claudia Owusu, and more.
Poetry Collections
Sleeplessness by Paul Hetherington
Pierian Springs Press | January 1, 2024
According to Kristin Sanders, in this poetry collection “two loves traverse a landscape—at once tangible and metaphoric—of insomnia, intimacy, desire, and language.”
What My Hound Dog Is Scenting Through the Sloughgrass Is a Way of Scenting Me by George Kalamaras
Wolfson Press | January 2, 2024
Kalamaras’s new poetry collection “is an intimate appreciation of hound dogs of all breeds and a Whitmanesque celebration of American life.”
The Unrooted Bloom by Amber Allen-Peirson
Black Lawrence Press | January 5, 2024
Cat Brooks writes of Allen-Peirson’s poetry, “Vulnerability, rage, sorrow jumps off the page as her pen pours out hope, bruising, fear and prayers for the men and children in our lives.”
Besaydoo by Yalie Saweda Kamara
Milkweed Editions | January 9, 2024
According to Ross Gay, Besaydoo is “a prayer, a prayer for all of us, which Yalie Saweda Kamara reminds us a book sometimes can be.”
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems by Mikeas Sánchez
Translated from the Zoque and Spanish by Wendy Call and Shook
Milkweed Editions | January 9, 2024
Sánchez’s poems “fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism into a singular body of work that stands for the self and the collective in the same instant.”
FlowerSong Press | January 10, 2024
Sáenz’s work “beautifully explores the complexities of classrooms, embracing hope, despair, resilience, and joy.”
The Bones Beneath by Sheila Smith McKoy
Black Lawrence Press | January 12, 2024
The Bones Beneath “captures what it means to be American, Southern, diasporan, what it means to belong and not to belong, and finding many ways home.”
Bear Lexicon by Eric Fisher Stone
Clare Songbirds Publishing House | January 19, 2024
Bear Lexicon is Stone’s third collection of poetry.
Snowfire and Home by Alexander Etheridge
Belle Point Press | January 23, 2024
In these poems Etheridge “calls readers’ attention to what remains amidst a landscape fated for desolation even as it moves toward seasons of renewal.”
Child Ballad by David Wheatley
Wake Forest University Press | January 25, 2024
In his sixth collection, Wheatley is “alert to questions of memory and loss while communicating the ache of the here and now, as seen through the eyes of his two young children.”
Slant Books | January 30, 2024
The poems in Porto’s debut collection “range from encounters with ancient biblical and mythological tropes to fresh translations of elegiac Anglo-Saxon verse to sojourns from Texas to Taiwan and Vermont to Venice.”
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
Wake Forest University Press | February 1, 2024
In this debut poetry collection, “the video games of his childhood are once again a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in two places at once; to be two people at once.”
Cheryl’s Destinies by Stephen Sexton
Wake Forest University Press | February 1, 2024
This poetry collection is a “thrillingly strange exploration of the comfort of the fantastical when the real is hard to bear.”
Veliz Books | February 1, 2024
This poetry collection “explores motherhood, the dissolution of a marriage, and grief through the lens of a shrinking pandemic space.”
Glitter Road by January Gill O’Neil
CavanKerry Press | February 6, 2024
These poems “reclaim the vulnerable, intimate parts of a life in transition and celebrate womanhood through awakenings, landscapes, meanders, and possibilities.”
Songs for All Souls by Norbert Krapf
Fernwood Press | February 6, 2024
Krapf’s poems “become a source of solace, a conduit for unburdening sorrow, hurt, and even anger, fostering a profound sense of peace and joy through the act of prayer.”
Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman by Zilka Joseph
Mayapple Press | February 6, 2024
In these poems Joseph “launches on an imaginative journey, delving into the history, especially the food and culinary customs of this small community of Indian Jews.”
A Domestic Lookbook by JoAnne McFarland
Grid Books | February 6, 2024
In this multimedia collection, McFarland “writes in conversation with the text of Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cook Book, the first known cookbook published by a Black woman in the United States.”
O Body by Dan “Sully” Sullivan
Haymarket Books | February 6, 2024
O Body is a collection “of moving and tender poems that delves into questions of masculinity, fatherhood, home, and learning to live in and love one’s own body.”
Fling Diction by Frances Cannon
Green Writers Press | February 7, 2024
Fling Diction is “a book about the vulnerability of desire; these poems explore different styles of relationships, including queer love, polyamory, familial drama, dog and human companionship, and longing in isolation.”
Accounting for the Dark by Peter Cooley
Carnegie Mellon University Press | February 13, 2024
In this collection, “the redemptive power of representation is everywhere present as this poet of faith memorializes imagined and lived experiences.”
Song of My Softening by Omotara James
Alice James Books | February 13, 2024
Song of My Softening “studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness.”
Her Breath on the Window by Karenmaria Subach
Carnegie Mellon University Press | February 13, 2024
Her Breath on the Window “reflects upon longing in its range of forms, moving in rich lyrical detail through history and the world of fantasy/mythos.”
Keith Althaus: New & Selected Poems by Keith Althaus
Grid Books | February 20, 2024
According to John Skoyles, Althaus’s “moral center, perfect ear and ability to summon the infinite from the everyday, are in full display here in poems that show the range and depth of his career.”
Traces: Sand and Snow in Symbiosis
Translated from the French and Arabic by Max de Montaigne and Mohamed Abdellahi Ould BABAH E. Horma Abdeljelil
Middle Creek Publishing | February 20, 2024
Edited by Jeffrey A. Lockwood and Mohamed Abdellahi Ould BABAH E. Horma Abdeljelil, this collection features ekphrastic poetry by various Anglophone and Arabaphone poets “to capture the ephemeral yet enduring essence of our passage.”
Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance by Stephanie Niu
Host Publications | February 24, 2024
These poems “collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost—from the fleeting raptures of childhood to the species nearing and beyond extinction.”
Autumn House Press | February 27, 2024
In his second collection, Barnett “traces a Black man’s lineage through time and space in contemporary America, navigating personal experiences, political hypocrisies, pop culture, social history, astronomy, and language.”
Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts by Dara Barrois/Dixon
Conduit Books & Ephemera | March 1, 2024
The poems in this collection “honor and pay homage to poetry itself for being available to us when we need it to do what only it can do in the way it does.”
The Song Cave | March 1, 2024
In her second poetry collection, Hunt “intimately chronicles the effects of love, labor, and grief on the life and sensibility of an artist.”
Wandering Aengus Press | March 1, 2024
According to Martha Silano, in this poetry collection “we are invited to consider the trauma of war, genocide, and The Holocaust, how ‘What stories aren’t told are lived’ and ‘Memories course the umbilicus.'”
Shake the Atmosphere to Reclaim an Empty Moment by Caroline Reddy
Pierian Springs Press | March 1, 2024
In this debut poetry collection, Reddy “gives us poems about healing and transformation after trauma.”
The Scarecrow of My Former Self by Sarah Stockton
Moonpath Press | March 4, 2024
According to Jeannine Hall Gailey, Stockton “presents a portrait of a life not defined by illness but circumscribed by it; a hybrid life of hospital visits and encounters with crystal healers, coyotes, iguanas.”
Bad Mexican, Bad American by Jose Hernandez Diaz
Acre Books | March 5, 2024
In Bad Mexican, Bad American, “the minimalist, working-class aesthetic of a ‘disadvantaged Brown kid’ takes wing in prose poems that recall and celebrate that form’s ties to Surrealism.”
Milkweed Editions | March 5, 2024
In these poems, Joudah “offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens—a world filled with ordinary desires, no matter how grand or tragic the details may be—and asks their reader to be changed by them.”
Graywolf Press | March 5, 2024
Seuss’s latest poetry collection “investigates our time’s deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean?”
Nest of Matches by Amie Whittemore
Autumn House Press | March 5, 2024
The poems in this collection “bask in the beauty of nature, queerness, and love while exploring how dichotomies form identity.”
Tangled in Vow & Beseech by Jill McCabe Johnson
Moonpath Press| March 8, 2024
According to Craig Santos Perez, in these poems “McCabe Johnson writes intimately about family, nature, and animals, while also protesting the violences of religion, patriarchy, and racism.”
Milkweed Editions | March 12, 2024
This collection is “an aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memory’s limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.”
Florida Man: Poems, Revisited by Tyler Gillespie
Burrow Press | March 12, 2024
In the second edition of his poetry collection, Gillespie “strips away the accepted myths of his home state and its inhabitants in poems centered on Florida’s history and culture.”
The Unquiet Country by Patrick Milian
Entre Ríos Books | March 12, 2024
Milian’s collection blends “poems and essays on queerness, illness, and the musical life of the Boulanger sisters with music by Emerson Eads.”
American Inmate: The Album by Justin Rovillos Monson
Haymarket Books | March 12, 2024
Monson’s debut collection “subverts contemporary discourse and representations of incarceration, of hip-hop, and of Asian American culture and literature.”
A Ten Peso Burial for Which Truth I Sign by Gabriel Palacios
Fonograf Editions | March 12, 2024
In this debut poetry collection, Palacios “slipstreams through a hauntological, historicized Southwest, to make sense out of the life inherited.”
Book*hug Press | March 12, 2024
This poetry collection “interprets the voices of women vilified over time, silenced by famous husbands, forced into sex work, or wrongly accused.”
Letters from Conflict by Lisa Stice
Middle West Press | March 12, 2024
In this collection, “a seasoned North Carolina poet and spouse of a U.S. Marine shares intimate insights and observations on creating history, family, community, and art.”
A Whale Is a Country by Isabel Zapata
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
Fonograf Editions | March 12, 2024
Zapata’s debut English-language poetry collection “explores humanity’s relationship to the natural world through a multitude of poignant angles.”
Adam in the Garden by AE Hines
Charlotte Center for Literary Arts | March 14, 2024
The poems in this collection “are rich in both eros and pathos as the poet explores queer love and joy that is hard won.”
The Animal Is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
In these poems, Bar-Nadav “draws on her own experience as a medical editor and her family’s history of Holocaust survival to write into the hybrid legacy of Western medicine: part clinical empiricism, part human fallibility and moral bankruptcy.”
Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? by Cyrus Cassells
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
This poetry collection “is the apotheosis of Cassells’s work to elevate the mundane and the bodily to the exalted, his vigorous lyrics a routine ecstasy.”
The Sorrow Apartments by Andrea Cohen
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
Cohen’s eighth collection “is home to spare and uncanny lyricism—as well as leaping narratives of mystery and loss and wonder.”
Nowhere Was a Lake by Margaret Draft
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
Draft’s debut poetry collection is “captivated by the simultaneously routine and disruptive nature of violence and desire.”
My Life in Brutalist Architecture by John Gallaher
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
This poetry collection “confronts the truth of the author’s adoption after a lifetime of concealment and deceptions with lucid candor, startling humor, and implacable grief.”
Black Lawrence Press | March 15, 2024
Garcia’s collection is “a response to a kind of annunciation, the almost supernatural calling of the artist to find words through which the self is free to move.”
Truth Be Told by Linda Susan Jackson
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
Jackson’s collection “looks at the myriad treasures and complexities of Black womanhood by channeling an eclectic cast whose rich interactions testify to the timeless neglect of girlhood, the bond of long-term friendship and the responsibilities of authorship.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
“Structured around the twelve parshiyot (portions) of Genesis,” this poetry collection “parallels immersion in Jewish teachings with the contemporary world.”
Another Land of My Body by Rodney Terich Leonard
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
These poems “witness aging, champion the resilience of desire, articulate Black Southern identity, memorialize the unequal burdens of the pandemic across racial and socioeconomic strata, and preserve the time capsule of one’s particular memories that will depart with them when they go.”
We Are All Sleeping with Our Sneakers On by Matthew Lippman
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
The poems in Lippman’s latest collection “embrace mess as an inevitability of authentic living and human interconnection.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
Rico’s poems “compose a personal history and a deconstruction of global capitalism as articulated through an encyclopedia of birds.”
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | March 15, 2024
This collection is “a beautiful organic invocation and tribute to the other-than-human kin of our world, a bow of respect and gratitude for the richness they bring to the places the poet experiences them.”
How to Abandon Ship by Sasha West
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
In How to Abandon Ship, West “harnesses poetry as a vessel to ferry the inconceivable, to wreck upon the shores of what we’ve known thus far.”
Milkweed Editions | March 19, 2024
Fisher’s poetry collection “expertly discerns the monumentalizing portrayals of history and its violences, while boldly illuminating other crucial accounts of everyday existence.”
Translated from the French by Erín Moure
Book*hug Press | March 19, 2024
This is “a book-length poem that plunges us more deeply into the notion of the idyll and into the polyhedric structure of love.”
Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo
Book*hug Press | March 26, 2024
These poems “transcend the tropes of colonial violence through saints and spices, rebellion and joy, to reimagine tensions and solidarities among various diasporas.”
I ask about what falls away by Jason Magabo Perez
Kaya Press | March 26, 2024
Perez’s second poetry collection is “an extended elegy set in the alleyways and Pacific-bound boulevards of San Diego, California during the current global health crisis.”
Black Lawrence Press | March 29, 2024
This poetry collection “interrogates dictionary definitions and the messy function of memory, reclaiming and redefining language to discover the self.”
Ghost Man on Second by Erica Reid
Autumn House Press | March 29, 2024
Reid’s debut collection “traces a daughter’s search for her place in the world after estrangement from her parents.”
The History of the Siege by Eric Pankey
Codhill Press | April 1, 2024
Pankey’s prose poems “hope to capture what it is like to live within history, and it looks like, as the old song says, we’re in for nasty weather.”
Every Wreckage by Ian C. Williams
Fernwood Press | April 1, 2024
In this debut poetry collection, Williams “buries, unearths, and reburies the questions of adolescence and its legacy.”
Firmament by Christopher Martin
Wandering Aengus Press | April 1, 2024
These poems “live in the parallel realms of the natural world that can be counted on for peace and beauty, and the faulty human world that often fails us, but which we cannot live without.”
Sea of Broken Mirrors by Pablo Medina
Hanging Loose Press | April 1, 2024
Medina’s poems “explore how the diminishment of self (indeed, its ultimate disappearance) can be a way of engaging with the world.”
Airlie Press | April 1, 2024
Told in three parts, this poetry collection “unveils as it journeys, slowly rendering into landscapes of childhood warped by memory.”
a little bump in the earth by Tyree Daye
Copper Canyon Press | April 2, 2024
In this poetry collection, Daye “creates a black town on a hill—its land, its losses, its living and ancestral dead.”
Red Hen Press | April 2, 2024
This poetry collection explores the “raw, often far from idyllic experience of a global love affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy.”
Going Out to Gather by Carolyn Adams
Fernwood Press | April 2, 2024
In this poetry collection, Adams explores “the secret places of the natural world, carrying with you the fears, wonder, and curiosity of what it means to be human.”
Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves by J. Drew Lanham
Hub City Press | April 2, 2024
In this poetry collection, Lanham “mines the deep connection to ancestors through the living world and tunes his unique voice toward embracing the radical act of joy.”
CavanKerry Press | April 2, 2024
The poems in Zobitz’s debut collection “reveal how Black womxn and girls carve out, create, and pass along that lightness in their daily lives.”
The Blue Mimes by Sara Daniele Rivera
Graywolf Press | April 2, 2024
Rivera’s debut is “a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public.”
The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
Archipelago Books | April 2, 2024
This poetry collection is “an incantatory, fearless exploration of collective trauma—and its horrific relevance in today’s Colombia, where mass killings continue.”
These Hollowed Bones by Amelia Díaz Ettinger
Sea Crow Press | April 2, 2024
This poetry collection “ties together the themes of loss, marriage, and ecology, topics that are at once personal and universal.”
Facing the Mountain: Poems on Dying and Death, Caregiving and Hope by Linda C. Welsh
Warbler Press | April 3, 2024
Facing the Mountain: Poems on Dying and Death, Caregiving and Hope “offers comfort for those in bereavement and explores the interwoven themes of dying, death, caregiving, and hope in human nature and Nature itself.”
Unmade Hearts: My Sor Juana by July Westhale
Small Harbor Publishing | April 4, 2024
In this poetry collection, “Westhale’s translations and marginal notes on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s sonnets conjure a brilliant dialogue across desires, languages, and centuries.”
Some Dark Familiar by Julia C. Alter
Green Writers Press | April 9, 2024
In this collection, Alter “turns an unflinching eye on postpartum depression, maternal ambivalence, pregnancy termination, and the complex weaving of sexuality with motherhood.”
Every Minute Is First: Selected Late Poems by Marie-Claire Bancquart
Translated from the French by Jody Gladding
Milkweed Editions | April 9, 2024
Every Minute Is First: Selected Late Poems is “lean, lucid yet philosophical poetry, reflecting visceral life and experiential thought, walking in the dark with a light.”
Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return by CAConrad
Wave Books | April 9, 2024
In this collection, CAConrad “writes from an ecopoetics that is generous and galvanizing, reminding us of how our present attentions collectively shape a future humanity.”
Wind to Space: Poems & Sketches by Rowan Kilduff
Read Furiously | April 9, 2024
The eighth title in the One ‘n Done series, a mix of abstract poetry and sketches, “plays with form by creating an ecological journal filled with connections we make within our environment.”
Beyond the Galleons by Isabel Cristina Legarda
Yellow Arrow Publishing | April 9, 2024
This collection is “a meditation on Filipino experiences of colonization, ancestral connection, alienation, and the ghosts that haunt people living in geographic or psychological diasporas.”
Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine
Alice James Books | April 9, 2024
This collection, edited by Anne Marie Macari, includes poems from Valentine’s twelve full-length poetry collections and a new, unpublished manuscript.
Season Unleashed by Anna Odessa Linzer
Empty Bowl Press | April 9, 2024
According to Brian Lynch, Season Unleashed is “full of deeply resonating truth and beauty about the natural world around us and the gifts of memory that tie it and those we love to us.”
Fugitive/Refuge by Philip Metres
Copper Canyon Press | April 9, 2024
In this book-length qasida, Metres “follows the journey of his refugee ancestors—from Lebanon to Mexico to the United States—in a vivid exploration of what it means to long for home.”
As the Sky Begins to Change by Kim Stafford
Red Hen Press | April 9, 2024
As the Sky Begins to Change is “a book of poems to wake the world, lyric anthems for earth and kin.”
Translated from the Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky
Lost Horse Press | April 15, 2024
Lost in Living “presents Halyna Kruk’s unpublished work from the immediate ‘pre-invasion’ years when life in Ukraine was marked by turmoil but full-scale war was not yet normalized.”
Mother Octopus by Sarah Giragosian
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | April 15, 2024
The poems in this collection “raise questions about the nature of human and animal appetites and the increasing levels of consumption that threaten the environment, while also exploring queer forms of intimacy and resilience in the Anthropocene.”
The Song of Everything: A Poet’s Exploration of South Carolina’s State Parks by Glenis Redmond
Good Printed Things | April 15, 2024
In Redmond’s poetry collection, “after being diagnosed with cancer and amid COVID, she visits South Carolina’s State Parks with her grandson, Julian, as a life-affirming act for both of them.”
Deer Black Out by Ulrich Jesse K. Baer
Red Hen Press | April 16, 2024
Deer Black Out is “a(n obsessional re) mediation of violence and trauma through the trans/coalescence of identities surfacing and resurfacing within a manuscript of serialized poetry.”
No Gods Live Here by Conceição Lima
Translated from the Portuguese by Shook
Deep Vellum | April 16, 2024
This career-spanning poetry collection “memorializes the cruelties and triumphs of the country’s past alongside the poet’s own childhood poems set against the tiny island nation’s distinctive flora and geography.”
Reader, I by Corey Van Landingham
Sarabande Books | April 16, 2024
This poetry collection “both courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker—tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover—finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self.”
The Uncovering by Jennifer Camp
Fernwood Press | April 16, 2024
This poetry collection “voices the internal—and perfectly human—struggle, the hidden terrors of low self-worth, and the devastating beauty of honesty.”
Fernwood Press | April 16, 2024
These poems “celebrate every-day, simple tasks as spiritual practices through which the seeker engages with a world brimming with sacred encounter.”
A Field of Nopes by James Ducat
Bamboo Dart Press | April 18, 2024
This book of blackout poems is “a mostly lighthearted, occasionally philosophical journey through selected application and rejection materials from the many teaching jobs the author applied for and did not get between 2011 and 2014.”
Mother of Other Kingdoms by Kai Coggin
Small Harbor Publishing | April 22, 2024
Mother of Other Kingdoms is “a marvel, an intricate tapestry that captures the essence of motherhood in its diverse forms, offering solace, reflection, and a profound connection to the world.”
Black Bell by Alison C. Rollins
Copper Canyon Press | April 23, 2024
“Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations,” this poetry collection “harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity.”
Green for Luck by Margaret Yapp
EastOver Press | April 23, 2024
In this poetry collection, Yapp “attends to mundanity as a string that holds us close to the earth, building quotidian divinities, landing jokes just to make sure we’re listening.”
Ishmael on the Farm by David Kann
Fernwood Press | April 23, 2024
This book “tells of a journey from terror to mastery by way of farming, and how farming’s nature-shaped vocabulary of duties and rituals may heal the deepest wounds.”
The Bearable Slant of Light by Lynnell Edwards
Red Hen Press | April 23, 2024
This poetry collection “documents a web of clinical assessments, medications, the terrible beauties of delusion, and the fragile gifts of darkness.”
The Cloud Path by Melissa Kwasny
Milkweed Editions | April 23, 2024
Kwasny’s poetry collection is “an imaginative reworking of the elegy that focuses on the difficult work of being with the dying.”
Return of the Chinese Femme by Dorothy Chan
Deep Vellum | April 30, 2024
Chan’s fifth collection is “an unabashed exploration of queerness, excess, identity, and tenderness.”
What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M.
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
Copper Canyon Press | April 30, 2024
This bilingual poetry collection is “a procession, a journey, a search for a body of water that has disappeared or gone elsewhere.”
A Map to the Spring by Lim Deok-Gi
Translated from the Korean by Kim Riwon and Karis J. Han
Codhill Press | May 1, 2024
This collection “beckons readers to embrace the interconnectedness of all living things and find solace in the ever-renewing cycles of nature.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
Cuff’s debut poetry collection “moves through the dissolution of adolescent selfhood in the midst of capitalist excess and nuclear family norms, via the territory of dreams.”
Translated from the Portuguese by Odile Cisneros
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
Originally published in 1985, this book consists of 50 “galactic cantoes” and “incorporates literary allusion, citation, and words and phrases in at least a dozen languages.”
Translated from the Persian by Armen Davoudian
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
In Hopscotch, Shams “crafts a vivid liminal world of Berlin-based poems, a canvas where home and exile blur into an intimate middle ground.”
If Seasons Were Kingdoms by Margaret Koger
Fernwood Press | May 1, 2024
According to Ken Rodgers, in these poems Koger “leads us on a journey riddled with puzzles, on a search for the narrator.”
Translated from the Portuguese by Isabel Sobral Campos and Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
According to Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, “Lex Icon is a tour de force that catalyzes the dualistic tension between word/thing and human/artifice.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
In this debut collection, Sullivan “cycles through a series of operational exercises that gradually enable her to narrate an attempted escape from the trappings of narrativity—plot, character, chronology, and the promise of a probable future issuing forth from a stable past.”
The Beautiful Immunity by Karen An-hwei Lee
Tupelo Press | May 1, 2024
According to G. C. Waldrep, this collection is “in part a meditation on the lyric tradition… and in part a revel inside that same tradition, an opulent feast at the table set by the five senses and the mind and heart they serve.”
The Song Cave | May 1, 2024
This debut poetry collection “is organized into three linked sections, animated by jokes, confusion, existential horror, and banality, often revealing the gaps in understanding that tangle this string of vignettes.”
The Song of North Mountain by Morgan Golladay
Current Words Publishing | May 1, 2024
The Song of North Mountain is “a transformative collection of poetry and art celebrating the famous and mystical North Mountain of Appalachia.”
UPSTAGE by Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
This combination of words and visuals juxtaposes “Bruce’s disjunctive mosaics of language collaged out of signage from Asbury Park, New Jersey, and Sally’s photographs capturing that town’s distinctive looks and textures and pandemic-era atmosphere.”
Beyond Temples by Martina Reisz Newberry
Deerbrook Editions | May 3, 2024
According to Seb Doubinsky, Newberry’s latest collection, is “a wonderful patchwork of colorful musings, reflections and illuminations on the everyday path to wisdom.”
Deerbrook Editions | May 3, 2024
In Earth School, Sloan “takes us deep into the earth’s human narrative, from ancient Greece to the war-torn 20th century to the cynical present, extracting memories and stories, and weighing lessons learned in this strange world we inhabit.”
Night Garden by David Stankiewicz
Deerbrook Editions | May 3, 2024
In these poems, Stankiewicz “carries us into our own deep longings—for the sacred, for love, for what has been lost—and for the present moment to be fully realized and overflowing.”
The Word’s Faire | May 3, 2024
This poetry collection “follows the life cycle of every life, as the mysterious narrator is cursed to live out humanity, and slowly become it.”
Tell Me The Moon by Caroline Sulzer
Deerbrook Editions | May 3, 2024
In Tell Me The Moon, Sulzer “uses language to build a rich visual world where we become aware of the profound manifestations of time’s passage.”
Anthology of Awe & Wonder by Dennis Camire
Deerbrook Editions | May 5, 2024
In Anthology of Awe & Wonder, “each ode, each murmuration, each sly revelation exists in a lexical realm all its own, pushing the limits of what the heart and the intellect can do.”
Wave Books | May 7, 2024
Nealon’s fifth book of poetry, All About You, is “both a study of personhood and a diary of release from it.”
But There’s So Much DIY in IVF That We Can’t Be Sure by Toby Goostree
Fernwood Press | May 7, 2024
This poetry collection “brings together the story of two couples, a husband and wife going through IVF and Abraham and Sarah from the book of Genesis, finding overlap in the grief of infertility even as their lives are seemingly far apart.”
Geometry of the Restless Herd by Sophie Cabot Black
Copper Canyon Press | May 7, 2024
In these poems, Black “uses the keeping of animals and tending of land to interrogate the self and in turn reveal new truths about the social, economic, and political realities of contemporary America.”
Coach House Books | May 7, 2024
Tierney’s new collection features “tech-inspired sonnets and prose poems that decode a life through the experience of loss.”
Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space by Catherine Barnett
Graywolf Press | May 7, 2024
The poems in Barnett’s latest collection about “the loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces… are like speculative prescriptions for this common human experience.”
The Curve of Things by Kathy Kremins
CavanKerry Press | May 7, 2024
These poems “celebrate queer love, map loss and liberation, and explore lovers’ scars and the knot of kinship that remains even when love fades.”
The Strange God Who Makes Us by Christopher Kennedy
BOA Editions | May 7, 2024
This poetry collection is “an exploration of memory, mourning, and humanity’s precarious relationship to the Anthropocene.”
The Under Hum by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
Black Lawrence Press | May 10, 2024
According to Ed Roberson, The Under Hum is “a collaborative collection of poems in various poetic forms from perspectives and lines from a wide range of authorial references.”
Translated from the Spanish by Jona Colson
Washington Writers’ Publishing House | May 14, 2024
According to Jesse Lee Kercheval, this bilingual collection “is a book that sings, that carries you from the first poem to the last, each alert to the terrible beauty of life.”
Good Monster by Diannely Antigua
Copper Canyon Press | May 14, 2024
In her second collection, Antigua “locates a resilient desire to find a love that will remain, to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and, above all, to keep on living.”
In the Days That Followed by Kevin Goodan
Alice James Books | May 14, 2024
In The Days That Followed “grapples with the sudden knowledge of the existence of a stillborn child conceived out of wedlock and never named, and never spoken of after the relationship had ended.”
Matters for You Alone by Leslie Williams
Slant Books | May 14, 2024
Matters for You Alone is “a spiritual exploration of friendship: its shapes and duties, stresses and blames—and its absolute necessity.”
Everyone I’ve Danced With Is Dead by Mamie Morgan
JackLeg Press | May 15, 2024
The poems in this collection “are exquisitely stitched as they offer up lamentation for, and salutation to, the dead.”
Good Want by Domenica Martinello
Coach House Books | May 21, 2024
The poems in this collection “open up a series of further possibilities: empathy for difficult people, acceptance of our difficult selves, and joy in every difficult thing.”
Hold Your Own by Nikki Wallschlaeger
Copper Canyon Press | May 21, 2024
Wallschlaeger’s poetry collection is “a steadfast search for peace, self-acceptance, and pleasure in a world that makes those basic rights an everyday challenge for Black women.”
I Will Get Up Off Of by Simina Banu
Coach House Books | May 21, 2024
The poems in this book are “attempts and failures at movement as the speaker navigates her anxiety and depression in whatever way she can, looking for hope from social workers on Zoom, wellness influencers, and psychics alike.”
Inconsolable Objects by Nancy Miller Gomez
YesYes Books | May 21, 2024
In this debut poetry collection, Gomez “offers a call and response to all of us stumbling towards connection.”
Passing through a Gate: Poems, Essays, and Translations by John Balaban
Copper Canyon Press | May 28, 2024
In this collection, Balaban’s prize-winning poems “are threaded through with essays that link poetry to Balaban’s extensive travels, whether hitchhiking throughout the United States or wandering the countryside of Vietnam during wartime to record and translate folk poetry.”
McSweeney’s | May 28, 2024
The fifteen poems in this collection “take shape in an equally wide variety of forms as the book takes up haunting questions of home and belonging.”
Watcha by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
Deep Vellum | May 28, 2024
Through “free verse, personal photographs, and prosaic gestures,” this collection charts “a vast terrain that ranges from an artistic standpoint, to border crossing, to belonging, to portraiture, to self-portraiture, to abstraction, to death, to a call for action.”
Green Island by Liz Countryman
Tupelo Press | June 1, 2024
In this poetry collection, Countryman “mines childhood for its longing, its intense sensations, its loneliness.”
Pee Poems: Second Edition by Yang Licai
Translated from the Chinese by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Circumference Books | June 1, 2024
These poems “go deep and dark—with deceptive lightness—into the metaphysical and the social, offering insight and humor along the way.”
Freak Show by Casey Killingsworth
Fernwood Press | June 4, 2024
In Freak Show, Killingsworth “assembles poems outlining his own freakishness, the odd jobs and shifts that earned him his living, the difficulty trying to relate to other people, even how to love.”
The Coracle and the Copper Bell: Poems to Carry Skin and Soul by Bethany Lee
Fernwood Press | June 4, 2024
The poems in this collection speak “to the work it takes to weave body and soul into a trustworthy vessel, capable of navigating the currents of a life with curiosity and courage.”
The Unfinished Family by Barbara E. Murphy
Červená Barva Press | June 1, 2024
The poems in this collection “explore the impulses of duty and loyalty, love and fear and compulsion for perfection as the speaker comes to embrace the mistakes that are inevitable in every family.”
Tupelo Press | June 2, 2024
Landsickness “explores the inelegant progress of grief and pursues a relentless search for evidence of the beloved’s presence through the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, and the science of depression.”
Lunch in Chinatown by Mary Bonina
Červenă Barva Press | June 3, 2024
According to Pui Ying Wong, these are poems of “of disappointments and loss, aspirations and love, and also how poetry and the resolve of students and their teacher can make all the difference in the world.”
Blue Elegies by Helen Ruggieri
Sea Crow Press | June 4, 2024
According to TAK Erzinger, this collection is “an avian ode that migrates and mitigates through a lifetime of experiences.”
This Tangled Body by Carmen Calatayud
FlowerSong Press | June 10, 2024
This Tangled Body “reads as surreal poetic memoir, navigating family history, war, migration, and the grit of relationships.”
JackLeg Press | June 10, 2024
Underpinning Rigby’s poetry collection “is a keen interest in cinema, fashion, feminism, transformation, and textuality (from ars poeticas to portmanteaus to ekphrastics).”
Haymarket Books | June 11, 2024
Dobbs’ poetry collection “explores surveillance, queerness, disability, race, and working-class identity in post-9/11 America.”
Sapello Son by Alejandro Lucero
Bull City Press | June 11, 2024
According to Aldo Amparán, the poems in this collection “sprawl like the New Mexico landscape they inhabit—across memory, family, and the complexities of the body.”
Terrapin Books | June 12, 2024
According to Lynn Levin, “Wheel offers us pleasure after pleasure of finely tuned lyric poems that contemplate the circularity of being, its darkness, its hope.”
Happy Poems and Other Lies by Jeddie Sophronius
Codhill Press | June 15, 2024
This poetry collection “details the experience of an exiled speaker who struggles to conform to the rigid religious beliefs imposed by their family.”
Object 7 ( ,a spirit loosely, ,bundled in a frame, ) by Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough
Futurepoem Books | June 15, 2024
According to Marwa Helal, in this collection “Tilghman Goldsborough is reporting live on the minuscule and maximal repercussions of the manmade.”
The Song Cave | June 18, 2024
Felsenthal’s second poetry collection “moves between the difficult work of mourning and the spirited nature of life.”
Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe by Jim Tilley
Red Hen Press | June 18, 2024
In these poems, Tilley “draws on his experience as a poet and mathematician to fix a lens on the current raw state of the country and the world and on interpersonal relationships.”
The Dove That Didn’t Return by Yael S. Hacohen
Holy Cow! Press | June 25, 2024
This book of poems including biblical stories, verses, and fragments “tackles the canon of war poetry, an almost exclusively male-penned body of poems.”
Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin
Nightboat Books | June 25, 2024
Instructions for the Lovers is “a taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.”
The Company Misery Loves by Kate Fox
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | June 30, 2024
Fox’s collection examines “what it means to exist in those distinct but inseparable worlds—worlds that can cause both misery and joy for those who are time-bound, but can also grant infinite insight and wisdom.”
Coachella Elegy by Christian Gullette
Trio House Press | July 1, 2024
This debut poetry collection “explores the queer promised lands and poolside utopias of the American West even as they are threatened by environmental destruction.”
Dressing the Bear by Susan L. Leary
Trio House Press | July 1, 2024
Leary’s Dressing the Bear is a collection of poems “composed in the wake of her brother’s passing that explores the themes of love, loss, grief, longing, and addiction.”
The Bamboo Wife by Leona Sevick
Trio House Press | July 1, 2024
Sevick’s poetry collection “captures the experiences of an imperfect woman held up against the standard of ‘good’ wife and mother.”
Four Fields by Dorinda Wegener
Trio House Press | July 1, 2024
Wegener’s Four Fields “weaves family traditions and natural landscapes into a stunning tapestry of loss, trauma, growth, and maturity.”
Deep Vellum | July 2, 2024
This poetry collection “follows Poole’s decision to start keeping a poetry journal while commuting by foot around Austin.”
A Blind Salmon by Julia Wong Kcomt
Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Shyue
Deep Vellum | July 2, 2024
In her first full-length collection available in English, Wong Kcomt “traces fanged emotions with sticky precision, exploring mothering, multilinguality, and madness.”
Translated from the Spanish by Erín Moure
Black Sun Lit | July 9, 2024
In this bilingual poetry collection, Ajens “combines indigenous writing and languages, the history of Western literature, post-structuralist philosophy and linguistics, manipulating geographical and scriptural boundaries.”
Be Broken to Be Whole: New & Selected Poems by Tom Crawford
Empty Bowl | July 9, 2024
According to Edward Field, “Crawford’s translucent poetry shimmers with gratitude for life that only someone who has come through deep sorrow can feel, and approaches the uncanny wisdom of the twice-born.”
blue and blue and blue by Darren C. Demaree
Fernwood Press | July 9, 2024
blue and blue and blue “conveys the overwhelming importance of having (every so often) a complete washing off of your desire for success.”
A Map of My Want by Faylita Hicks
Haymarket Books | July 9, 2024
Hicks’s second poetry collection “follows a nonbinary femme as they explore the sensual intersection of the personal and the political, a crossroads to which their sexual liberation brought them after their escape from a religious cult.”
FlowerSong Press | July 9, 2024
Fire Season is a collection of “lyrics and prose poems that illustrate mass incarceration and the experience of having a family member incarcerated.”
Fine in a Minute by King Daddy
Bamboo Dart Press | July 12, 2024
This poetry collection “highlights King Daddy’s twisted, erotically-charged yet erudite wit and wisdom, which evokes fever dream poignancy and working-class empathy.”
JackLeg Press | July 15, 2024
These are poems “of wit, inquiry, and sonic vigor that examine issues of being, textuality, and the imaginative act.”
It Is As If Desire by Terence Winch
Hanging Loose Press | July 15, 2024
It Is As If Desire is a collection of 10-line occasional poems “that examine, deconstruct, disrupt, and celebrate love and friendship.”
Instructions for Banno by Kiran Bath
Kelsey Street Press | July 16, 2024
In her debut poetry collection, Bath “travels through the timelines and geographies of the women in her family to understand the inherited consequences of becoming a South Asian bride (banno).”
Talking Back to the Exterminator by Daniel Bourne
Regal House Publishing | July 16, 2024
This poetry collection explores “Bourne’s upbringing in southern Illinois to his later homes in Ohio, Poland, or the American Southwest.”
Black Lawrence Press | July 26, 2024
Guess’s poetry collection “digs through the dark absurdities of our shared trauma–the stunted intimacies of life through masks and Twitter and Zoom–alongside ‘the small messes of the heart.'”
Ash Keys: New Selected Poems by Michael Longley
Wake Forest University Press | July 27, 2024
The poems in this collection explore “love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric past, and Northern Ireland’s troubled present.”
Book of Provocations by mónica teresa ortiz
Host Publications | July 27, 2024
These poems “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression, and its undying cry for liberation.”
Leaving Biddle City by Marianne Chan
Sarabande Books | July 30, 2024
This coming-of-age poetry collection “details one Filipina American speaker’s experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as ‘Biddle City.'”
Confession of a Heliophiliac by Rochelle Germond
Choeofpleirn Press | August 1, 2024
The poems in this collection are “part ode to sunlight, part elegy for home” and grapple “with loss, womanhood, religion, and longing—for people, the past, places where we belong.”
Washing a Myna by Hwang InChan
Translated from the Korean by Eun-Gwi Chung
Black Square Editions | August 1, 2024
This poetry collection “unveils the myriad questions caused by the relationships of things and people, and curiosities about existential exercises generated by points where prosaic language does not reach.”
Fernwood Press | August 6, 2024
Bornman “draws upon Biblical imagery—water and fire, bleeding and cleansing, birth and crucifixion—to audaciously poeticize her own experience as a mother.”
I Don’t Want To Be Understood by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Alice James Books | August 6, 2024
This poetry collection “is a work of resistance against the conventional trans narrative, and a resistance against the idea that trans people should have to make themselves clear and understandable to others in other to deserve human rights.”
Fernwood Press | August 6, 2024
According to Allison Pitinii Davis, in Santer’s thirteenth poetry collection “social justice and surrealism bat their eyelashes at each other across the Anthropocene.”
Suspended In My Insecticide Jar by Clara McAuley
First Matter Press | August 10, 2024
According to Zachary Kluckman, “the determination to be the author of her own literal and figurative narrative is an impelling force” behind this “visceral and nuanced collection of poems.”
Another Woman by Hannah Bonner
EastOver Press | August 13, 2024
This poetry collection “explores female sexuality, anguish, and abjection within the decline of a romantic relationship as well as through biblical, mythical, or pop cultural figures such as Delilah, Aphrodite, or Karen Carpenter.”
Quince, Rose, Grace of God by Trina Gaynon
Fernwood Press | August 13, 2024
In these poems, Gaynon “claims the roles of first-time home buyer, resident in the troubled town of Richmond, second language tutor, writer, and church member before she comes to love them.”
ALL OF THEM ALL OF THEM by Akira Ritos
fifth wheel press | August 13, 2024
The poems in this collection “explore family, generational trauma, traditions, and grief in their life as a queer Filipino-American.”
Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire by Jason Schneiderman
Red Hen Press | August 13, 2024
Schneiderman “confronts the rise of extremism and antisemitism in the United States while grappling with the end of his marriage and finding his feet as a newly single gay man.”
Sonnets for a Missing Key by Percival Everett
Red Hen Press | August 20, 2024
These experimental sonnets are “inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum.”
Funeral Playlist by Sarah Gorham
Etruscan Press | August 20, 2024
This poetry collection exploring a diverse range of songs “examines the intricate connections between music, consolation, and human mortality.”
The Stuff of Hollywood by Niki Herd
Copper Canyon Press | August 20, 2024
In this book-length poem, Herd “relies on various modes—images, prose, lyric and documentary poems—to reflect upon the quotidian nature of gun culture, police killings, and political unrest.”
Alice James Books | August 20, 2024
The secret in Larkin’s sixth collection “begs to be seen and known, even when faced with her aging and her own mortality.”
Graywolf Press | August 20, 2024
Bluff is “a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence in a world that seems to be dissolving into desolate futures.”
Refugee Number 33,333 by Farhad Pirbal
Translated from the Kurdish by Pshtiwan Babakr and Shook
Deep Vellum | August 22, 2024
Pirbal’s poetry is “a chronicle of exile and displacement, longing and not belonging.”
The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers
Fernwood Press | September 1, 2024
These poems “explore the healing powers of art and nature in a world that is as rife with grief as it is ripe with beauty.”
The Book of Drought by Rob Carney
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | September 1, 2024
In the poetry collection The Book of Drought, Carney “skips ahead to the ending, setting his unnamed Listen-Recorder in a near-future landscape newly wrecked by drought.”
What Good Is Heaven by Raye Hendrix
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | September 1, 2024
These poems “layer a queer coming-of-age narrative with poems of witness to the difficult realities not only of rural and farm life, but of violent cultural norms based around the patriarchal religious beliefs that the region is steeped in.”
In Praise of Late Wonder by Lee Herrick
Gunpowder Press | September 1, 2024
In this collection, California Poet Laureate Herrick writes “with openness about his adoption from Korea in more than 25 new memoir-like prose poems.”
Come and See: A Verse Translation of the Gospel of John by Eric Hoffman
Dos Madres Press | September 1, 2024
The lyrics in this collection “stand as unadorned as possible, so that each acuminated image and phrase intends, as did the original Greek, to pierce the thin veil between the human and the divine.”
Tupelo Press | September 1, 2024
Lane’s poetry collection allows “the mysteries of Emily Dickinson’s life to blossom into an incisive exploration of feminist poetics, innovation, and the gendered, temporally bound nature of artistic audience.”
Bamboo Ridge Press | September 1, 2024
Lum’s poems imagine life in Honolulu Chinatown circa 1900, giving voice to “the forgotten pioneer generation of sojourners and settlers.”
An Overdose of Meditation by Irene Mitchell
Dos Madres Press | September 1, 2024
In this poetry collection, Mitchell “has devised a formula through which she realizes that thoughtful perception is a vital principle of life.”
The Book of Wounded Sparrows by Octavio Quintanilla
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | September 1, 2024
In his second full-length poetry collection—and its limited-edition, full-color set of broadsides—which was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in poetry, Quintanilla “sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of the American Dream.”
Recalibrating Gravity: A Memoir in Verse by Mary Keating
Woodhall Press | September 2, 2024
Keating’s book “reminds us, no matter how hard life may seem—grace, love, and humor will save us from despair and allow us to live our best life under any circumstances.”
Red Hen Press | September 3, 2024
In her second poetry collection, Jackson “continues her exploration of the paradoxical meaning of a world where joy and sorrow simultaneously coexist.”
I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine
Fernwood Press | September 3, 2024
According to Matthew Dickman, this poetry collection is “good company for anyone who has struggled with mental health, for anyone who has felt alone, for anyone being bounced around in the sea of life.”
Graywolf Press | September 3, 2024
The 15th-anniversary edition of this influential work of 21st-century literature features a new preface by the author and new essays by Saidiya Hartman and Katherine McKittrick.
In a Field of Hallowed Be by Timothy Geiger
Terrapin Books | September 9, 2024
According to Richard Jackson, in this collection Geiger “listens to the songs of the many birds that populate the poems, not simply for their heard song, but for their unheard messages.”
Don’t Forget to Love Me by Anselm Berrigan
Wave Books | September 10, 2024
In Berrigan’s latest collection, he “pivots between semiotic slippage and shrewd assertions, letting the form of each poem take shape as it will, a surprise of sound and sight.”
Autobiomythography of by Ayokunle Falomo
Alice James Books | September 10, 2024
According to I. S. Jones, this poetry collection “bends and reimagines the limits of language, blends the Divine with the digital present, contemporary music with the voices of the past while the speaker traverses the friction between their American & Nigerian heritage.”
Plum Blossom Wine by Li Qingzhao
Translated from the Chinese by Sibyl James and Kang Xuepei
Empty Bowl Press | September 10, 2024
These poems “full of wistful longing resonate across the centuries like a temple bell just rung.”
The Girl Who Became a Rabbit by Emilie Menzel
Hub City Press | September 10, 2024
This book-length lyric “pushes the limits of the prose-poetic form to explore how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story.”
What Comes from the Nights by John Taylor
Coyote Arts | September 10, 2024
According to Katie Lehman, Taylor’s poems “move perceptively forward with due diligence among ‘hints of history,’ whether they are somersaulting pebbles or ‘wings riddled with wormholes.’”
The Goodbye Kit by Daneen Bergland
Airlie Press | September 15, 2024
Bergland’s poems about girlhood, marriage, parenthood, aging, and nature “explore ecologies of intimacy made tangible through both experience and witness.”
Indirect Light by Malachi Black
Four Way Books | September 15, 2024
Black’s collection both “returns to friends and kin to honor them by the indirect light of memory” and “seeks to memorialize the author’s personal experience of adolescence and addiction amidst the opioid epidemic.”
Greater Ghost by Christian Collier
Four Way Books | September 15, 2024
The poems in Collier’s debut collection “move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones, the visceral bereavement of a miscarriage alongside the murder of a family member and the specter of police brutality.”
even my dreams are over the constant state of anxiety by Irene Cooper
Airlie Press | September 15, 2024
This poetry collection is “bound by pulse and impulse, bent on giving body to the amorphic, and buoyed by the insistent beauty of a damaged planet.”
Four Way Books | September 15, 2024
In these poems, Falconer asks “what it means to live outside the heteronormative experience while existing as a man, simultaneously a casualty and a participant in the project of masculinity.”
What if the Invader Is Beautiful by Louise Mathias
Four Way Books | September 15, 2024
What if the Invader is Beautiful “explores the ineffable yet primal connections between outer and inner landscapes—the impact that the natural world has on the psychological terrain of our interior lives.”
Four Way Books | September 15, 2024
Moldaw’s poems “engage public and private life and voice a necessary and resounding affirmation of the feminine and of language emerging through silence.”
Saints of Little Faith by Megan Pinto
Four Way Books | September 15, 2024
The poems in Pinto’s debut collection “engage with South Asian experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and mental illness, refusing to ignore narratives treated as unspeakable and overlooked by the English canon.”
New Vrindaban by Jacob Strautmann
Four Way Books | September 15, 2024
Strautmann’s latest collection “houses the compressed narratives of varied characters, monumentalizes the beautiful illusions of failed ideas, and remembers the irretrievable innocent love of youth.”
Four Way Books | September 15, 2024
In her debut collection, Williams writes “equally riotous and vulnerable poems, penning a love letter to trans people and their audacity to exist in a world that constantly endangers them structurally and individually.”
Terminal Maladies by Okwudili Nebeolisa
Autumn House Press | September 16, 2024
Winner of the 2023 CAAPP Book Prize, this poetry collection “serves as an intimate exploration of the relationship between a mother and son and their emotional journey during her battle with cancer.”
The Twenty-First Century by Jacob Eigen
Copper Canyon Press | September 17, 2024
Eigen’s debut collection “guides us through a breadth of environments and worlds — from far off times and places to the poet in the present, leaving Costco, wandering through the mazy streets of Queens.”
Want, the Lake by Jenny Factor
Red Hen Press | September 17, 2024
Factor’s second poetry collection “spans twenty years of life—accumulated wisdom, images, and desires—with a dedication to craft that has been honed and clarified by time.”
Copper Canyon Press | September 17, 2024
With “deeply imagistic and metaphorically rich” poems, Kooser’s collection “shows us that even the simplest of objects, the simplest of actions, can become a portal.”
The Song Cave | September 17, 2024
Coupled with the poet’s line drawings, “these questioning and conversational poems operate on the sidelines of reason, dictated by human instinct.”
Holy Cow! Press | September 17, 2024
According to Michael Kleber-Diggs, Watson’s collection “works with light and shadow as it captures scenes and sounds—silence, whispers, and song.”
The Invisible World by Matt Daly
Unsolicited Press | September 24, 2024
Daly’s poetry collection “began as a conversation with a troubling and troublesome ancestor whose writings and speeches were influential in the early history of what would become the United States.”
Songs for the Land-Bound by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
June Road Press | September 24, 2024
This debut poetry collection explores “the constraints and anxieties of midlife in the midst of climate breakdown, of motherhood in a period of personal and planetary vulnerability.”
Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms by Joan Kwon Glass
Perugia Press | September 24, 2024
Kwon Glass’s latest collection is “part lamentation and part hymn—an illumination of diasporic hungers, hauntings, absence, and resilience.”
What Monsters You Make of Them by Christian Teresi
Red Hen Press | September 24, 2024
Teresi’s poems “interrogates ecology and injustice through shifting landscapes and ancient cities.”
If I Were God I Would Also Start with Light by Gardner Dorton
Thirty West Publishing House | September 27, 2024
According to Taylor Byas, Dorton’s poetry collection “undertakes the sizable quest of finding alternative role models in order to reconstruct the desire that has been long denied.”
Ankle-Deep In Pacific Water by E. Hughes
Haymarket Books | September 27, 2024
Hughes’s debut collection of lyric poems interrogates “the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern California.”
Kimono with Young Girl Sleeves by Jill Hoffman
Box Turtle Press | September 28, 2024
According to David Lehman, Hoffman’s poems “surprise and delight with their candor and with the skillful irony that permits the poet to translate autobiography into poetry.”
Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf
Nightboat Books | October 1, 2024
Baez Bendorf’s third collection “resounds through liminal spaces, at dusk and dawn, across personal meditations and wider cultural awakenings to form a collection overflowing with freedom, rebellion, mischief, and song.”
Exit Garden State by John Hennessy
Lost Horse Press | October 1, 2024
The speakers of these poems “explore the knots of familial experience, what it’s like to be both parent and child simultaneously, to be embraced by family as well as to lose it, to celebrate kinship and endure its sorrows and changes.”
Empty Me Full by Catherine Abbey Hodges
Gunpowder Press | October 1, 2024
According to Donna Spruijt-Metz, Abbey Hodges “tenderly interrogates the workings of time,” traveling “with remarkable ease through the liminal corridors between life and death, how we remember, and what we can know.”
Television Fathers by Sylvia Jones
Meekling Press | October 1, 2024
In this debut collection, Jones is “simultaneously reimagining the past and reveling in the absurd contemporary—her gaze never straying from social inequity, nor from the personal scales of fate.”
The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans by Bill Knott
Black Ocean | October 1, 2024
This new edition of The Naomi Poems brings the collection back into print after almost 60 years and features a new introduction by Richard Hell.
The Analog Body by Alexander Laurence
Tofu Ink Arts Press | October 1, 2024
According to Jack Skelley, Laurence’s poetry collection “compiles decades of dreamscapes, deft allusions to the literary-pop canon and cubist-punk lab tests that go Ka-BLAM!”
CavanKerry Press | October 1, 2024
The poems in Ridl’s latest collection are “each structured as a lyrical collage that gazes in a rearview mirror over his 80 years of being.”
A History of Echoes by Rod Carlos Rodriguez
Gival Press | October 1, 2024
According to Mihir Shah, in this book Rodriguez “preserves the rich history of Taíno culture with incredible tact and tenacity in a compilation that is a clinic on narrative poetry.”
Army of Giants by Matthew Rohrer
Wave Books | October 1, 2024
This collection of poems is a “diverse meditation on the ways in which the physical world intersects, overlaps, and informs the universe of the imagination.”
Ribcage of Time by Jacqueline Tchakalian
Red Hen Press | October 1, 2024
Tchakalian’s second poetry collection “is both intimate and universal in its scope of events—family life, birth, death, rape, abortion, genocide from a poet on the ledge of some eighty years of life with language fresh and unsettling.”
The Language of Light by Nancy Thomas
Fernwood Press | October 2, 2024
In these poems, Thomas “plays with common figures of speech in the English language, celebrates relationships with peculiar people, and attempts to approach growing older with courage and humor.”
The Escapades by Marie-Noëlle Agniau
Translated from the French by Jesse Hover Amar
World Poetry Books | October 3, 2024
Agniau’s English-language debut is a “surreal and haunting work of transfiguration and rupture inspired by Ovid’s Ocyrhoe.”
Collected Poems by Gerard Fanning
Wake Forest University Press | October 7, 2024
This collection of Fanning’s four published books and one previously unpublished collection is “dense with allusions to American music and contemporary cinema, and equally attentive to Ireland’s eastern and western seascapes.”
Gay Poetics of the Passion by Luis Lopez-Maldonado
FlowerSong Press | October 7, 2024
Lopez-Maldonado’s “complex collection of poemas and gay prayers” blends “genders, sexes, races, classes, and verdades to create an over-satisfying fruit-smoothie intended to fill, over-fill, and spill.”
Among the Crags of the Eyrie by Daniel Shapiro
Dos Madres Press | October 7, 2024
According to Anthony Seidman, Shapiro “deftly showcases poems of personal experience alongside more hermetic and shorter verse, yet it is his assured voice that sweeps us up in his legacy of wind, sabbath wine, savannahs, even the Ostriches of Pasadena from yesteryear.”
Desire/Halves by Jai Hamid Bashir
Nine Syllables Press | October 8, 2024
Bashir’s debut collection “navigates between English, Urdu, and Spanish, examining the interplay of these languages and the experience of being Pakistani-American.”
Green Writers Press | October 8, 2024
According to Dzvinia Orlowsky, deNiord’s collection “points us past near-elegiac compassion toward a belief in infinite, beautiful sanctuaries.”
The Holy & Broken Bliss by Alicia Ostriker
Alice James Books | October 8, 2024
According to Publishers Weekly, “Ostriker confronts the intricate dance between spiritual despair and revelatory beauty in her ethereal 17th collection.”
Wave Books | October 8, 2024
Rehm’s collection of lyric poems helps readers “experience a genuine devotion for both birdsong and breath, and the intimacies of thought connecting the two.”
Window over the Sink by Charles Springer
Fernwood Press | October 8, 2024
According to Michael Martone, this collection of prose poems “gives us tragedy, but also the whole Polonius litany of ‘tragical-comical-historical-pastoral-poem unlimited’ in this very real surreality.”
The Light That Burns Us by Jazra Khaleed
Translated from the Greek by Peter Constantine, Viktoras Iliopoulos, Sarah McCann, Jason Rigas, Max Ritvo, Angelos Sakkis, Josephine Simple, Brian Sneeden, and Karen Van Dyck
World Poetry Books | October 10, 2024
Khaleed’s English-language debut is “an unapologetic indictment of the wrongs faced by immigrants, by a rudderless young European generation, by leftist activists in a Greece and a Europe blighted by neoliberal policies of deregulation and privatization.”
Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook by Zachary Cahill
Red Ogre Review | October 11, 2024
According to Jacob Henry Leveton, Cahill’s collection of poems “marshals the imaginative to ground his reader in what is dark, fantastic, surreal, and magical.”
Deerbrook Editions | October 14, 2024
According to Arielle Greenberg, Potter’s latest poetry collection “witnesses both the partially eclipsed diurnal (laundry, litter) and the shining counter-quotidian (patience, psalms).”
Regal House Publishing | October 15, 2024
Each poem in Banks’s collection “builds a history, layered like sediment, of a life of observations, of tragedy, of connection, with one inevitable conclusion.”
Deeper the Tropics by Matt Broaddus
Fonograf Editions | October 15, 2024
Broaddus’s collection presents “the self as an accumulation of faces over which we have only partial control” via persona poems, prose poems, and false translations.
An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang
Copper Canyon Press | October 15, 2024
In her third collection, Chang uses “dialogues against literature, against philosophy, and against God” to interrogate “the ‘fathers’ who stand at the center of history.”
Persephone Heads for the Gate by Merrill Oliver Douglas
Silverfish Review Press | October 15, 2024
According to Ellen Bass, these poems “move the reader’s focus from quotidian detail to big idea with confidence” and “fresh, engaging imagery that holds tension between beauty and harsh truths.”
The Village of New Ghosts by Winifred Hughes
Passager Books | October 15, 2024
According to EJ Colen, The Village of New Ghosts creates a “linguistic and emotional landscape of give and take, of push and pull, each step forward a constant realignment of understanding of nature and history, of temporality itself.”
Under This Roof by Theresa Monteiro
Fernwood Press | October 15, 2024
Monteiro’s debut collection “offers the possibility of restoration, of making peace with grief, and of forging connection in a disrupted world.”
The Alcestis Machine by Carolyn Oliver
Acre Books | October 15, 2024
The “parallel personas” in Oliver’s collection “inhabit space stations and medieval villages, excavate the Devonian seabed, and plumb a subterranean Anthropocene.”
apparitions (nines) by Nat Raha
Nightboat Books | October 15, 2024
Written as a series of “niners”—a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines—Raha’s collection is “a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet.”
The Song Cave | October 15, 2024
Ross’s second poetry collection chronicles “a brute education in love and decorum through ceremony starter kits, basement classrooms, and a mission school turned art camp.”
When My Mother is Most Beautiful by Rebecca Suzuki
Hanging Loose Press | October 15, 2024
Suzuki’s collection is “at once a powerful love letter to a mother and to language itself, delving into complex questions of family, communication, culture, and connection.”
The Next Noise Is Our Hearts by Kathleen Willard
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | October 15, 2024
Willard’s poetry collection “evokes an unabashed celebration of the natural world as she shares her love of bees, the northern white rhinoceros, bison, coral reefs, and whales—balanced by her poetic and science-based investigations into many environmental issues.”
Walking and Stealing by Stephen Cain
Book*hug Press | October 22, 2024
This collection of serial poems “considers urban affairs and culture through playful, revelatory devices.”
No More Flowers by Stephanie Cawley
Birds, LLC | October 22, 2024
The poems in this collection “believe in their ability to affect consequences with language, while being self-aware enough to know how absurd that belief is.”
Wrong Heaven Again by Ryan Eckes
Birds, LLC | October 22, 2024
According to Laura Jaramillo, the poems in this collection “emerge from the deformation of language by landlords, administrators, and politicians who seek to dress up the daily hell into which we’ve been plunged.”
All We Can Do Is Name Them by Joanne Esser
Fernwood Press | October 22, 2024
According to Deborah Keenan, this poetry collection is “assured, confident, direct, far-ranging—a book written by a grown-up willing to stare at the years gone by and at the present moment.”
All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins by Ariel Francisco
Translated into the Spanish by Francisco Henriquez
Burrow Press | October 22, 2024
In this bilingual collection, Francisco “mourns a Miami already ruined by climate change and development, and meditates on the future ruins of a city reclaimed by the sea.”
Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer
June Road Press | October 22, 2024
Kiefer’s debut poetry collection asks, “What sources of solace and stability remain amid the ruins of industry, after the death of a parent, while raising children in an uncertain time alongside the ghosts of the past?”
Blade by Blade by Danusha Laméris
Copper Canyon Press | October 22, 2024
Laméris’s third book is “a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for the cracked continental edge, for all we keep in ‘the heart’s farthest chambers.’”
Alice James Books | October 22, 2024
According to Bin Ramke, “The essential dialogic nature of this book … establishes the voices in this head, headlong encounter with the world, answering for our human failure to care properly or enough or in time.”
Material Witness by Aditi Machado
Nightboat Books | October 22, 2024
This collection is “a series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world.”
Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea by Liz Worth
Book*hug Press | October 22, 2024
Inspired by Worth’s professional tarot reading, these poems about ritual, magic, and daily life “explore the thin veil between them and suggest it barely exists at all.”
Book of Kin by Darius Atefat-Peckham
Autumn House Press | October 25, 2024
This debut poetry collection “follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of both his mother and brother.”
An Altar of Tides by Peter Ludwin
Wandering Aengus Press | October 25, 2024
According to Kevin Miller, the poems in this collection “are steeped in the natural beauty of the Northwest, they are intricate and intimate.”
Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Translated from the Irish by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Wake Forest University Press | October 25, 2024
This new edition of the award-winning Irish-language poet’s work “revisits and reworks poems from her previous collection.”
Carnegie Mellon University Press | October 29, 2024
Millar’s sixth collection is “a collection of half songs rendered in a hardscrabble lyricism, propelled by their shifting, irregular rhymes, half rhymes and off rhymes.”
Those Absences Now Closest by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Carnegie Mellon University Press | October 29, 2024
In Those Absences Now Closest, Orlowsky “sets up house among the nightmares of intergenerational trauma and, as far as anyone can, humanizes them.”
Whitewash by Frances Victory Schenkkan
Belle Point Press | October 29, 2024
This poetry collection “explores the civil rights era and its lingering tensions in Shreveport, Louisiana.”
Blue Yodel by Eleanor Stanford
Carnegie Mellon University Press | October 29, 2024
Stanford’s poems “take the reader from Mexico City to West Philadelphia to Karachi” and “wade into the difficult joys of mothering, self-exploration, and romantic entanglement in midlife.”
No Credit River by Zoe Whittall
Book*hug Press | October 29, 2024
According to Ali Blythe, this memoir in prose poetry “is a testament to our queer and artistic communities—profoundly thoughtful, coursing with intelligence.”
Museum of the Soon to Depart by Andy Young
Carnegie Mellon University Press | October 29, 2024
In this collection, Young “navigates her own and others’ suffering through intense observation, from the inner mechanisms of grief and illness to the solace of distance provided by photography.”
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2024
This poetry collection is “a poetic memoir of a life well-lived and well-examined for all of its eccentricities and triumphs.”
The Other Altar by Nicholas Gulig
The Center for Literary Publishing | November 1, 2024
The speaker of Gulig’s third collection “wanders in a world illumined at every turn by ghosts whose shape and form he hopes to language in a litany of books, one inside the other.”
The Thankless Paths to Freedom by Medbh McGuckian
Wake Forest University Press | November 1, 2024
The poems in this collection “are preoccupied with imprisonment, from the County Down Maze Prison to the sentencing of revolutionary nationalist Constance Markievicz, as violence mingles with a dreamlike glow.”
The Last Song of the World by Joseph Fasano
BOA Editions | November 5, 2024
The poems in this collection “serve as vignettes of fatherhood, love, and desire against the backdrop of apocalyptic events.”
The Devil Orders a Latte by Katrin Talbot
Fernwood Press | November 5, 2024
According to David Southward, this poetry collection “captures the ephemeral feelings of connectedness we all have but seldom manage to put into words.”
Dos Madres Press | November 6, 2024
Gathering poems written over 50 years, this collection “is a brightly shattered bildungsroman, a portrait of the artist told in excavated images and recovered turns of thought.”
The Poems from On the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Translated from the Latin by Peter Glassgold
World Poetry | November 7, 2024
According to Eugene Ostashevsky, Glassgold’s “translingual renderings of the Latin poetry from the book refashion the originals and their English rephrasings into a composition of ‘lower limit speech, upper limit music,’ letting the reader overhear, in snatches, how Boethius was received over the ages.”
So Much More by Darren C. Demaree
Small Harbor Publishing | November 7, 2024
According to Dustin Pearson, the speaker in this poetry collection “is a husband, father, Ohioan, and a self-deprecating, ambivalent, and sometimes resigned American man whose spirit burns in the shadow of something revolutionary.”
Day Lasts Forever by Mario dell’Arco
Translated from the Romanesco by Marc Alan Di Martino
World Poetry | November 12, 2024
According to A. M. Juster, dell’Arco’s poems “bring alive daily life in Rome in a unique colloquial voice that often feels like a blend of Martial’s humor, Giuseppe Belli’s grittiness, and the surrealists of the era.”
Zombie Vomit Mad Libs by Duy Đoàn
Alice James Books | November 12, 2024
According to Tamiko Beyer, “these poems exist on the razor-thin edge that divide the states of waking and sleep, of being high and sober, of living and not living.”
In Inheritance of Drowning by Dorsía Smith Silva
CavanKerry Press | November 13, 2024
Smith Silva’s debut collection “confronts the ‘drowning’ of BIPOC communities as they are displaced, exploited, and robbed of their identities and witnesses their resistance and resilience.”
Book of Exercises II by George Seferis
Translated from the Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg
World Poetry | November 14, 2024
Book of Exercises II is the first English translation of Seferis’s “lesser-known political, satiric, and erotic poetry as well as previously unseen material from his diaries.”
The Glass Clouding by Masaoka Shiki
Translated from the Japanese by Abby Ryder-Huth
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 14, 2024
This poetry collection “wrestles with the limits of translation, using experimental forms, image, parallel texts, and prose to question what translation can and cannot make visible.”
Notes of the Phantom Woman by Iana Boukova
Translated from the Greek and Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova and John O’Kane
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
The poems in this collection “are connected by a rigorous inquiry into the illusions of thinking, the blind spots of utopianism, and the trouble with moral positioning.”
Heavy Metal Nursing by Scott Frey
University of Tampa Press | November 15, 2024
Frey’s debut collection “plumbs the depths of unthinkable loss in poems that are as formally agile as they are unflinching: prose poems and slant-rhymed pantoums alongside odes to nurses and therapists, a poem-as-instruction-manual for a deep suction machine.”
A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir
Translated from the Icelandic by Rachel Britton
Circumference Books | November 15, 2024
These poems explore “what it can be like to be a woman and to slither through and away from threat to find voice and form and power, no matter how strange.”
Black Box Named Like to Me by Diana Garza Islas
Translated from the Spanish by Cal Paule
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
This debut poetry collection “challenges the limits of syntax and image to hold the full scope of the imaginary in its grasp, touching on questions of motherhood, the future, memory, and the acquisition of language.”
Mongrel Kampung by Mikael Johani
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
The poems in this collection are “translingual mini-tomes—tirades, historiographic treatises, love letters, protest songs, errant tweet threads.”
The Redesignation of Paradise by Denise Newman
Kelsey Street Press | November 15, 2024
According to Norma Cole, in this collection Newman asks, “What is paradise and what is our relationship to it? Where is the eros of living beings in the scent map of our awareness practice?”
Love Prodigal by Traci Brimhall
Copper Canyon Press | November 19, 2024
According to Barbara Hoffert, this poetry collection “addresses life’s everyday suffering in astonishing language that will attract a wide range of readers.”
Fires Seen from Space by Betsy Fagin
Winter Editions | November 19, 2024
The poems in Fagin’s third collection “celebrate moments of simplicity and ease while facing catastrophic change, weaving deep relational webs to bind isolated efforts of resistance.”
The Everyday Life of Design by Alan Gilbert
Winter Editions | November 19, 2024
The second edition of Gilbert’s “sprawling epic poem is a document of these broken times, with a glint of hope for a better tomorrow.”
Grid Books | November 26, 2024
Medved’s poetry collection is part memoir, part spiritual exploration and “tells of the struggle to process loss without any physical anchor.”
If I Gather Here and Shout by Funto Omojola
Nightboat Books | November 26, 2024
Omojola’s poetry collection “illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning-making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed through a Western medical context.”
Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers by Andrew Schelling
Empty Bowl Press | December 1, 2024
Schelling’s newest collection offers “poems ‘found’ among the canyons and buttes of the Southwest, a paean to the Sanskrit dictionary, odes and elegies to deceased poets, and a series of love songs ‘to the tune of a ballad.'”
Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree by Jennifer Martelli
Lily Poetry Review Books | December 2, 2024
According to January Gill O’Neil, this poetry collection “delves deep into the human psyche, exploring themes of desire, self-destruction, and the complexities of human existence.”
House of Jars by Hester L. Furey
Frayed Edge Press | December 3, 2024
According to Steve Davenport, “madness, both as crisis and as passage, is the cycle’s primary theme, which Furey handles masterfully via multiple characters.”
Mountains of the Moon by Irene Blair Honeycutt
Charlotte Center for Literary Arts | December 3, 2024
In this poetry collection, Honeycutt “takes readers on a journey from creeks of childhood through rivers and inlets all the way to the Red Sea and back again.”
Post-Volcanic Folk Tales by Mackenzie Polonyi
Akashic Books | December 3, 2024
In this poetry collection, Mackenzie “necessarily explores prescribed responsibilities of diasporic only daughterhood.”
Between the Joints & the Marrow by Garrett Soucy
Fernwood Press | December 3, 2024
According to Peter Leithart, Soucy’s “densely allusive, rugged poems surprise with twists on biblical themes, vivid moments of prayer and praise, sharp and shocking images.”
Blanket of the Night by Carl Little
Deerbrook Editions | December 4, 2024
According to Megan Grumbling, this poetry collection “bestows tender attention to myriad little miracles of daily life, nature, art, and community.”
Bodies of Light by Susan Tekulve
Serving House Books | December 4, 2024
According to Denise Duhamel, Tekulve’s collection “honors the bodies of her beloved dead and the magic of her garden” in elegies and odes.
Sledding the Valley of the Shadow by Laura Foley
Fernwood Press | December 10, 2024
This poetry collection embraces “the acceptance of the imperfect as the perfect lesson, as welcome or necessary steps to wisdom, slipping and sliding a flash-lit, joyful, snowy way to an abiding gratitude.”
Red Ogre Review | December 13, 2024
According to Katie Beswick, Fulford’s poetry “feels the way memories of adolescence feel—that same nostalgic intensity most of us still carry, a kernel of our adult selves wrought in the fire of 90s teenage culture.”
Hanging Loose Press | December 15, 2024
Amirthanayagam’s newest collection is “multi-lingual, multi- coastal, multi-dimensional poetic record of a time in our collective history when our potential human demise loomed large.”
The Grimace of Eden, Now by Cody-Rose Clevidence
Fonograf Editions | December 17, 2024
This poetry collection “wanders through spacetime carrying irreverent theologies and exploring what it could mean to be living, sensate, and awake in this weird moment in time, exposing a mixture half of awe and half of madness.”
Purification in Queens by Kristalyn Gill
Fernwood Press | December 17, 2024
This collection of poetry “embodies Gill’s mission to reclaim the evangelical lexicon and introduce this vocabulary back into present-day vernacular.”
Many Poems by Roberta Iannamico
Translated from the Spanish by Alexis Almeida
The Song Cave | December 17, 2024
In Iannamico’s first full-length poetry collection to be published in English, “objects acquire voices, seasons move simultaneously across rural landscapes, and a mother and daughter share a unique vision of the past and present.”
Well You Needn’t by Joel Lewis
Hanging Loose Press | December 20, 2024
Lewis’s seventh collection “gathers his poems about the music that has occupied him since his teenage years.”
Diary of a False Assassin by Anne Leigh Parrish
Unsolicited Press | December 21, 2024
The poems in Parrish’s third collection “reveal the miracles of nature, the enslavement of women, and the pain of family life.”
Rome | Pedestrians Beware by Rafael Alberti
Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Geist & Giuseppe Leporace
Swan Isle Press | December 30, 2024
In Alberti’s collection set in Rome, “the blending of classical tradition with post-modern echoes the darkness and luminosity that exist within the poems, tinged with longing, nostalgia, love, as well as hope.”
