The poetry collection "Carrying Stones into the Colorful Unknown" muses through the paradoxes of human existence and considers the monotony of everyday life. In M. E. Kamrass’s paradoxical poetry collection "Carrying Stones into the... Read More

Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.’s poetry collection is a celebration of the awkwardness of growing up queer and poor. These autobiographical, narrative poems focus on Carver’s coming-of-age in rural Kentucky. They track his religious... Read More

"Sage Smiles" is a wry, witty collection that encourages reflections on joy and connection. "Sage Smiles", the third book in a collaboration between poet Jet Widick and illustrator Kimberly Taylor-Pestell, is filled with optimistic,... Read More

The direct poems collected in "Sivateja Mukkamala Poetry" ask complex questions about the natures of life and love. "Sivateja Mukkamala Poetry" gathers poems that utilize brevity to invite ruminations on the nature of existence.... Read More

Written with warm intentions toward fellow human beings, the poems of Creation’s Assortments work to bridge the space between one person’s inner life and the inner lives of others. Timothy R. Race’s poetry collection Creation’s... Read More

Black music—funk, soul, disco—from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, coupled with the love shared by his parents, set the rhythm and inspiration for this collection, Douglas Manuel’s second after Testify, itself a Benjamin Franklin... Read More

Impossible Belonging, Maya Pindyck’s third collection after Emoticoncert and Friend Among Stones, received the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry on the heels of her fellowships and grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Poetry... Read More

Debut collections mark an irreversible moment in a poet’s career, even while the previous years of labor and individually published poems testify to both resilience and talent. Sarah Audsley is a Korean American adoptee from Vermont,... Read More