"I Swear Somewhere This Works" is a digital-age poetry collection that speaks to timeless themes and desires. Trista Mateer’s decade-spanning, poignant poetry collection "I Swear Somewhere This Works" gathers inspiring, emotive... Read More

Restrained, vibrant language and delightful surprises abound in the spiritual, loving poems collected in It’s This. Laura Foley’s poetry collection It’s This spins webs between nature, human love, and spiritual connections. These... Read More

A relationship advice podcaster advocating “just break up,” Sierra DeMulder champions the value of those things that exist only briefly: love, life—“every poem is about death / when you are reading to the dying”—music,... Read More

Edginess, unsettlement, a sense of foreboding: what weather can come to bear and a skillful poet with some thoughts on mortality to share. Jeannine Hall Gailey’s ability to turn it up—or down, thankfully—is what makes reading her... Read More

Black women poets matter in ways that poets of other races and ethnicities can’t: “Black girl must write poetry so other black girls can relate.” That Black girl poetry readers matter … do you understand? This debut collection... Read More

Sound. Alise Alousi sounds her words to arrive as cadence, as music, as magic. Sounds easy, until you realize how large her collection of eye teeth would be if she traded her secret with other poets. A Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and the... Read More

In extreme cases, imagination is an affliction, or did we mean addiction? Please stop, says the poet, let’s pause here. But that seems not an option for Courtney Bush: “I would calm down if it weren’t for the risk of dislocating my... Read More

"Delta of Cassiopeia" is a bright literary collection whose poetry and prose pieces function like stars in a career-spanning constellation. With subjects variously quotidian and mythological, Ted Morrissey’s satisfying literary... Read More