A playful collection, Maria Giesbrecht’s "A Little Feral" invokes her religious background. Born in Mexico and of Mennonite ancestry, Giesbrecht found release in writing: “A safe / rebellion. A poem. / It’s the way I have... Read More

About everyday sources of confusion and comfort, "To Live Forever" is a deeply felt poetry collection. Lexi Joann’s form-experimental poetry collection "To Live Forever" is about heartbreak, new love, and the ways people grow through... Read More

Sound’s absence is lauded as powerful in the musing poetry collection "A Soft, Stunned Silence". David Moore’s contemplative poetry collection "A Soft, Stunned Silence" is about the relationships between sounds and shadows. Logical... Read More

What to make of this daily plate?: divorced mother of two sons (one white, one Black). This life lot?: estranged from her own mother. This dealt hand?: caring for a partner through a mental health crisis. Even as her work takes full... Read More

You can lead a queer Asian American to the southern US (including Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Florida), but it takes an epiphany-laced collection of poems to understand why Siew Hii stayed. One, an extraordinary ability to... Read More

Poets are cheek turners, reliably willing to face grief and pain at untenable levels and then ask for more. Poets are coat turners, inexplicably willing to renounce and swerve just as the path seems laid. In her debut collection, Elise... Read More

A poem by renowned twentieth-century poet Amy Lowell receives illustrative treatment in this picture book that transforms climbing a tree into a whimsical adventure. As a girl climbs an apple tree, the branches, blossoms, and fruit grow... Read More

"Bloodletting a Butterfly" is an intricate narrative poetry collection that speaks to the trauma of witnessing human pain. Alec B. Hood’s gothic poetry collection "Bloodletting a Butterfly" probes experiences of trauma. In striking... Read More