Houston. Literal Publishing / Hablemos Escritoras. 2022. 167 pages.
In titling her collection of essays Arrhythmias, Mexican poet, novelist, and essayist Angelina Muñiz-Huberman signals to the reader…
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- Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wake Forest University Press. 2022. 96 pages. Michael Longley’s new verse collection, The Slain Birds, is mostly a book of miniatures, some poems not exceeding four, fi…
- New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2022. 113 pages. “Perhaps it also has to do with the alphabet—that there isn’t really one, that there are lots of them: each produces its own kind of thinking. Li…
- Tipperary, Ireland. Beir Bua Press. 2023. 54 pages. Oisín Breen’s Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín is a book of poetry woven together by threads of various longing. The first and title poem’s titular…
- Normal, Illinois. Co*Im*Press. 2022. 134 pages. As a work written in a nonhegemonic language, Galician, the set of poems in Claus and the Scorpion is implicitly about constructing a separate identity…
- Illus. Inga-Wiktoria Påve. Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2022. 100 pages. Underfoot may be the “first Sámi poetry translated into English in the U.S.,” as the publisher states, but I daresay t…
- Durham, North Carolina. Duke University Press. 2022. 142 pages. How does one effectively respond to the injustice of state-sponsored violence, especially such violence directed at imprisoned people,…
- Sandpoint, Idaho. Lost Horse Press. 2022. 160 pages. In November 2013 I met Oleh Lysheha for the first and last time. During that meeting, we chatted about the United States (where Lysheha spent a wh…
- Farmington, Maine. Alice James Books. 2023. 100 pages. A foot of fiery red hair chopped from the poet’s head, a hand curled around the braid—this cover image is the initial offering of Katie Farris’s…
- Dallas. Phoneme Media. 2022. 128 pages. OUR SOCIOPOLITICAL WORLD is hemorrhaging; when an adroit poetic spirit on the front line documents it with such candor, rigor, and talent, we…
- Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2023. 72 pages. DANA GIOIA’S newest book, Meet Me at the Lighthouse, includes several poems that are among the best he has written, e…
- New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. 80 pages. THERE IS SOMETHING MAGICAL about receiving a new book by an author who is no longer living. It is an unexpected gift, bringing wi…
- New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. 80 pages. THERE IS SOMETHING MAGICAL about receiving a new book by an author who is no longer living. It is an unexpected gift, bringing wi…
- New York. Fordham University Press. 2022. 88 pages. “TWO GUARDIANS,” the opening poem of Roberto Tejada’s Why the Assembly Disbanded, brings together…
- Eugene, Oregon. Resource. 2022. 186 pages. CINEMATIC REVOLUTIONS is the second book of a projected three-part series, inspired by Dante and William Blake. In the…
- Rockville, Maryland. Beltway Editions. 2022. 191 pages. “OUR JOURNEY BEGAN with a simple challenge among college friends. One week. One poem. One story to tell.…
- Kent, Ohio. Kent State University Press. 2022. 77 pages. IN HER DEBUT verse collection, Farnaz Fatemi skillfully explores the nuanced between-life of Farsi and English and how that n…
- Hexham, UK. Bloodaxe Books. 2022. 80 pages. THE TITLE OF André Naffis-Sahely’s second volume of poetry, High Desert, suggests a collection celebrating a specific…
- Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2022. 200 pages. THIS VOLUME IS a wonder. Drawn from nineteen books of poetry (out of the more than thirty he’s published s…
- San Francisco. City Lights. 2022. 126 pages WHEN A PERSON chooses to read poetry, it can be for a multitude of reasons, but many of them revolve around a desire to connect with…
- Kraków. Editions Austeria. 2022. 68 pages. KRZYSZTOF SIWCZYK IS known for his philosophical poetry that yields long lines reasoning out the malaise of adulting, the proble…
- Cheshire, Massachusetts. MadHat Press. 2022. 185 pages. IRINA MASHINSKI IS one of the most notable contemporary Russian American translators and poets. While she usually compose…
- Brooklyn. Black Spruce Press. 2022. 68 pages. MICHAEL JENNINGS’S FIFTEENTH collection of poems is a lyrical triumph. His satisfying lines sing with memory, endured longing…
- Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press. 2021. 120 pages. GEORGE KALOGERIS’S new poetry collection, Winthropos (2021), is a compelling study of death that w…
- Makhanda, South Africa. Deep South. 2022. 90 pages. JIM PASCUAL AGUSTIN’S Bloodred Dragonflies is a stunning, elegiac collection that showcases Agustin’s wr…