Dallas. Phoneme Media / Deep Vellum. 2024. 225 pages.“In the camp’s kindergarten / I asked each child to draw something missing from this world,” a poem begins in this new anthology o…
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Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2024. 116 pages.Yuliya Musakovska is one of many Ukrainian poets whose work has been profoundly affected by the war that Russia launched agai…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2025. 104 pages.Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Kitchen Hymns is a beautiful meditation on the power…
Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Eulalia Books. 2024. 218 pages.With Guerilla Blooms, Chilean poet Daniela Catrileo, bilingual in Spanish and Mapudungun, creates a poe…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 144 pages. In Li-Young Lee’s latest collection, The Invention of the Darling, the seminal poet grants us both familiarity and departure from his previou…
West Caldwell, New Jersey. Terrapin Books. 2024. 94 pages. How wonderful to discover a collection of poems based on my native habitat! I feel I’ve walked Hayden Saunier’s paths, seen…
New York. World Poetry Books. 2024. 40 pages. Ibrahim Nasrallah’s recent chapbook collection of poems, translated from Arabic, explores erasure as both a poetic technique and lived e…
Manchester, UK. Carcanet Press. 2024. 122 pages. In Oksana Maksymchuk’s Still City, war and everyday life collide, causing a dramatic shift in perspective about what matters and what…
Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 2024. 256 pages. Ilan Stavans’s selections from seven of Juan Gelman’s collections, originally published between 1982 and 2001, showcase…
Frankfort, Kentucky. Broadstone Books. 2024. 88 pages. From the pun of the title and the triptych cover photograph, Tim Hunt’s Western Where challenges our nostalgia and the stories…
Granada. Sonámbulos Ediciones. 2023. 176 pages. All poetry anthologies offer readers a panorama of a writer’s life work as well as a view of the different creative stages through whi…
London. Bloodaxe Books. 2024. 160 pages. The title of a poem or a poetry collection often sets up a stage for expectations. Shadow Reader, by Imtiaz Dharker, the recipient of the Que…
Boston. Black Ocean. 2024. 95 pages. Originally published in Spanish in 2015, Valeria Meiller’s The Odd Month is a stunning volume of prose poetry constructed of a multilayered world…
Bloomington, Indiana. Slavica. 2023. 118 pages. Since his nomination for Poland’s Nike Award in 1997, poet Wojciech Wencel has seen acclaim, disappointment, and resurgence in h…
London. Faber & Faber. 2024. 208 pages. David Harsent’s new collection, Skin, is presented in ten sections with such titles as “Stones,” “Salt Moon,” “Hallways and Rooms,” “At th…
Grand Canyon, Arizona. Grand Canyon Conservancy. 2024. 59 pages. It is no secret that the modern world has given us incredible advances in technology and a thousand ways to connect,…
New York. Sundial House. 2024. 152 pages. Aptly titled Music for Bamboo Strings, there is a melodic quality in this collection by Cuban American poet Carlos Pintado. Recipient of the…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2024. 72 pages. The poetry of Eliana Hernández-Pachón’s The Brush explores the limits of language to communicate horror, centering on one of the worst ma…
London. Seagull Books. 2023. 96 pages. Palestinian American poet and translator Fady Joudah describes Ghassan Zaqtan as “a lyricist with strong narrative impulse.” Such is certainly…
London. Seagull Books. 2024. 140 pages. Samira Negrouche (b. 1980, Algiers) likes mathematics and art. Science balances the infinitesimal and the cosmos; it organizes, labels, and co…
Pasadena, California. Red Hen Press. 2024. 96 pages. My Infinity is a volume that puts Didi Jackson’s talent on full display. This is only her second poetry volume (the first,…
Georgetown, Kentucky. Finishing Line Press. 2024. 104 pages. After reading Trespassing My Ancestral Lands, I’m reminded of the profound substance and lucid language of C. P. Cav…
Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2024. 158 pages. Nidia Hernández’s debut collection of poetry is a lyric sanctuary, an invitation to meditate on the natural world and what…
Pittsburg, Kansas. Pittsburg State University. 2024. 48 pages. I first learned of E. D. Watson’s powerful work one dizzying day before writing this review. Prowling social media for…
New York. World Poetry Books. 2023. 160 pages. Dimitra Kotoula’s The Slow Horizon That Breathes is a significant introduction to the contemporary Greek poet who, asi…