Ringwood, Oklahoma. Turning Plow Press. 2025. 134 pages.Visions for the Night is the twelfth collection in Ken Hada’s expansive body of work. In it, we find moments of intros…
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Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press. 2025. 84 pages.“Arion’s Lyre,” the opening poem of Young Woman with a Cane, sets the tone of this collection. A poem rich in me…
Wakefield, Québec. Daraja Press. 2024. 116 pages.“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” wrote Adorno in 1949. Yahia Lababidi’s new volume—the poet’s eleventh—Palestine Wai…
Austin / Houston. Hablemos Escritoras / Literal. 2024. 105 pages.In the prologue to Isabel Zapata’s Empty Pool, Robin Myers translates Alejandro Zambra as he quotes Zapata he…
Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 2025. 80 pages.When We Only Have the Earth, by Djibouti poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi, begins with “One Saturday i…
El Paso. Mouthfeel Press. 2024. 120 pages.JD Pluecker is a language worker: a poet, writer, historian, translator, interpreter, artist, bookmaker, and cross-border cultural producer.…
London. Penguin Books. 2025. 112 pages.Sometimes poetry does not just precipitate in descriptions. Jean-Michel Basquiat went beyond the obvious and layered his complex paintings, crea…
Portland. Fonograf Editions. 2025. 72 pages.A brief look at the table of contents of Ahmad Almallah’s third book of poems alludes to what may be the cornerstones of his poetic experie…
Anderson, South Carolina. Parlor Press. 2025. 96 pages.Written from scenes of protest, police stations, factories, dreams, courtrooms, bedrooms, etc., an unflinching, pragmatic gaze i…
Louisville, Kentucky. Sarabande Books. 2025. 118 pages.If you are familiar with the work of German-language Romanian poet Paul Celan and find succulence in writers who weave surrealis…
Toronto. Trace Press. 2025. 146 pages.Perhaps the seminal diasporic experience is visiting home after quite some time away and having to fake a laugh to hide that you do not understan…
Brookline, Masschusetts. Zephyr Press. 2025. 120 pages.At the heart of Yau Ching’s for now I am sitting here growing transparent lies the po…
New York. New Directions. 2025. 96 pages.Aharon Shabtai is one of the most recognized living Israeli poets and perhaps the oldest. Born in 1939, almost a decade before the founding of…
Louisville, Kentucky. Sarabande Books. 2025. 104 pages.Readers will find an unlikely beauty in Lauren K. Watel’s debut prizewinning collection, unlikely because of its engagement with…
London. Greenwich Exchange. 2024. 160 pages.In his most recent verse collection, The Shorter Poems, 1993–2023, Alamgir Hashmi (b. 1951) embraces treacherous expanses of…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2024. 248 pages.In Isabella Hammad’s short story of the Palestinian diaspora, “Mr. Cana’aan,” Haifa-born historian Jibril Tamimi explain…
London. Jantar. 2024. 101 pages.Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in early 2022, poetry from Ukraine’s frontlines has become a literary phenomenon, shaking the global read…
Dallas. Phoneme Media. 2025. 162 pages.In its trilingual presentation, Mexican author Natalia Toledo’s Carapace Dancer (El dorso del cangrejo / Deche bitoope…
New York. OR Books. 2024. 288 pages.Poet, writer, teacher, academic, editor, activist, human being, Palestinian, Gazan—Refaat Alareer (September 23, 1979–December 6, 2023) was and rem…
Boston. Black Ocean. 2024. 80 pages.Amid the endless expanses of our systems, the texts in Just Like are thought experiments that seem to strive restlessly toward decentraliz…
Tehran. Sokhan. 2023. 1031 pages.In an age when poetic traditions often splinter between innovation and preservation, Mohammad Afshin Vafaie’s anthology One Hundred Poems from The…
Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith. 2024. 199 pages.Glyn Maxwell’s New and Selected Poems brings together over three decades of committed creativity. Within its pages readers…
New York. Nightboat Books. 2024. 92 pages.Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of four previous books of poetry as well as three limited-edition chapbooks. She has also published essays an…
New York. World Poetry Books. 2024. 198 pages.Jazra Khaleed’s second edition of The Light That Burns Us delivers a poetry of protest—raw, unrelenting, and necessary. Translat…
Calcutta. Seagull Books. 2024. 80 pages.Born in 1977, Krzysztof Siwczyk is one of the young writers associated with a new era in Polish verse who made their poetic debuts shortly afte…