Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Bouwsma (Author)Death Fluorescence is a triumphant and visually stunning collection. Poet Julia Bouwsma expertly crafts an exploration of life on this Earth woven with the wonders of parasitic worms, Jewish identity, the persistent neurosis of mice. Grounded in visualizations of nature bordering on the spiritual, with moons that hemorrhage, ghost apples, and a quarry's snow-mounded shoulder, one can dig their fingers into the soil of this collection and w...

The Venus of Odesa: New and Selected Poems: Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Askold Melnyczuk (Author)Compassion and irony define the human predicaments and historical conditions in Askold Melnyczuk's extraordinary new collection of poems that spans nearly fifty years. His cosmopolitan perspective-one that twines Ukraine and New England-probes time and death, and the relationship between the tragic and the comic with a nimble wit that humanizes. These poems shake you up in the most important ways that poetry can. -Peter Balakian, author...

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Report copyright infringementby Josh Dugat (Author)In his debut poetry collection, Great and Small, Josh Dugat deftly maps the terrain between the intimate and the infinite, drawing on the hymnal echoes of Psalm 104. With formal dexterity and keen observation, these poems shift from backyard curiosities to cosmic marvels, from a pilot light's "cat's blue pupil" to a whale's "abyssal plains." Grounded in Texas landscapes and Alabama life, Dugat's precisely observed verses balance technical ski...

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Report copyright infringementby Sheri Saretsky (Author)This book of freestyle poetry was born from the authors frequent walks up the fire road that joins two San Diego neighborhoods together. The fire road provides a glimpse at the local wildlife, and great views of both the mountains and the valley between. Some of the poems are written while noticing the ample plant and animal life, and some are observations about life and aging that pop up during the walks. Number of Pages: 40...

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Report copyright infringementby Pascale Petit (Author)Poetry Book Society RecommendationMythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit's Beast, a collection that ranges from the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorges of the Languedoc, Indian tiger forests, the Amazon rainforest, to her home by Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Some of these remote places are vestiges of earth's pristine habitats, while other wildernesses are encaged in cellars of Paris, along wit...

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Report copyright infringementby Karly Kwasigroch (Author), Tara Snyder (Photographer), Julia Greenshaw (Editor)Spooky Season is a cozy, nostalgic collection of poetry for anyone who loves the magic of Halloween, the chill of the autumn air, and the golden glow of falling leaves. Split into several themes this book takes you on a journey through autumn. Autumn Beginnings explores the start of the season and feels like the first cool breeze after summer. Cozy Fall wraps you in warmth with poems...

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine W. Carter (Author)Winner of the 2025 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award Shimmering to the pulse of the unseen, By Stone and Needle circles like a compass needle around the figure of the witch. Catherine Carter concocts a book of secular spells and incantations for engaging with, and meditating upon, a world in which all things are connected, in which symbol slides into literal, spirituality into science, exact observation into lamentation and love. The poe...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Vargas (Author), Michele McDannold (Editor), Mark Bond (Photographer)from the author: I am at an age when some poets get lazy and decide it's time for the "New and Selected" collection of their work. Those of us who are smiled upon by the big publishing houses (don't look at me) most likely get gentle nudges to just do it and generate some quick book sales. It's doesn't take a lot of sweat and tears to put together about twenty-percent unpublished poems...

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Report copyright infringementby Vidyan Ravinthiran (Author)Joint Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025 The poems in this collection emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries: Sri Lanka, the UK and the USA. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 2017, Vidyan Ravinthiran travelled to the north of Sri Lanka where his parents grew up - it fina...

Praisesong: Delivering Food on the Ukrainian Frontline

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Report copyright infringementby Ned Breslin (Author), Judyth Hill (Editor)A luminous, soul-stirring collection of poems born from the rubble of war and the resilience of the human spirit.Heartbreaking and inspirational stories from the front lines of an unspeakable war ring out from Ned Breslin's unique and luminous set of linked poems. From bombed-out apartment buildings to makeshift kitchens in shattered towns, Praisesong carries readers deep into the heart of Ukraine's unthinkable sufferin...

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Dixon (Author), Lana Hechtman Ayers (Editor in Chief)Patrick Dixon conjures his past life as an Alaskan fisherman with his considerable poetic and storytelling gifts and a capacious memory for the perfect detail. That world's thrills, exhaustion, danger, jonesing, friendships, boats, whiff of diesel layered over fish, and orange pink sunsets all feel close enough to touch. So does the push and pull of yearning, fear, and wonder that remain. This is a be...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Borruso (Author)Winner of the 2024 Louise Bogan Award, Anthony Borruso's Splice melds contemporary pop culture with enduring questions. This dynamic, sometimes darkly humorous montage of identity, chronic illness, and artistic homage examines the concept of selfhood. Navigating a disorienting experience of a chronic illness where thoughts "get stopped up / like an autumn gutter," the speaker shape-shifts into a multitude of voices that reconcile and con...

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Report copyright infringementby Neeli Cherkovski (Author)In his final book, poet Neeli Cherkovski paints a portrait of his life through luminous details of encounters with his illustrious comrades."A prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who chronicled the literary ethos of bohemian culture."--New York TimesTo be published on what would have been his 80th birthday, The Portrait Gallery Called Existence finds the poet and memoirist combining these twin vocations in intimate depictions of ...

A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia

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Report copyright infringementby Todd Davis (Editor), Noah Davis (Editor), Carolyn Mahan (Editor)Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science. A compani...

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Report copyright infringementby Martheaus Perkins (Author)Carried within Martheaus Perkins' The Grace of Black Mothers are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered dreams by boldly finding grace through our Black mothers, aunties, and grannies. The work invites the reader into a yard where "whisper-thin soul-jazz drips over America" to flip through a Nile-long family album. Mamie Till-Mobley, Sybrin...

A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia

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Report copyright infringementby Rose McLarney (Editor), Laura-Gray Street (Editor), L. L. Gaddy (Editor)Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia--a hybrid literary and natural history anthology--showcases sixty of the many speci...

The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal: Spring Collection 2025: In His Garden

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Phinney (Editor in Chief), Sarah Steele (Editor), Tanner Olson (Author)The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal is from www.TheWayBack2Ourselves.com. WE ARE FOR SEEKERS, BELIEVERS, WANDERERS, AND CREATIVES.Here, at The Way Back to Ourselves, we are committed to making a community where our members can slow down, take a deep breath, and find the way back to who they were always meant to be. And in that self-discovery, be it spiritual or otherwise, we ...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Scafidi (Author), Dave Smith (Editor)A New York Public Library Best Book of 2025 Steve Scafidi's The Appalachian Sea explores the eponymous place of mountains and story, of rivers and magic, as well as of mortality, where people work and live and die. What began as an homage to the American painter Miles Cleveland Goodwin became a celebration of the spectral qualities of place and home. The artist's gothic imagery of haints and dark orchards haunts the bo...

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Report copyright infringementby Carroll Beauvais (Author)How does trauma shape us? What is memory but a flawed attempt to set the record straight so we can live with it? How do we give voice to what is mostly whispered in the dark? How do we go on?These are the questions, and Carroll Beauvais has the answers. The poems in Preverbal, Carroll Beauvais' debut collection, are wrought from the spit and shine of life's hardest moments. In them, the dead are as present as the living, their power inc...

The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees

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Report copyright infringementby Mitchell Nobis (Author)Parents can be expected to know all, but they don't have many answers in a world of constantly moving rights and wrongs. The poems in The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees embrace the wandering uncertainty of the self in a life of so many unknowns and the frustrations of enduring the knowns. These poems address the natural world, gun violence, basketball, youth, mortality, climate crisis, and the parenting anxie...

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Report copyright infringementby Dorianne Laux (Author)In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux's trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom.With odes to the unlikely and elemental--salt, snow, crows, cups, Bisquick, a shovel and rake, the ubiquitous can of WD-40, "the way / it releases the caugh...

At The Still Point: In Conversation with Saint Julian

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Starbuck (Author)In Conversation with Saint Julian - Praise for At the Still PointIn this contemplative and lyrically rich collection, poet Ron Starbuck offers a series of poetic "Disclosures" inspired by Revelations of Divine Love, the visionary 14th-century work by Julian of Norwich. Rather than offering a translation or paraphrase, these original poems are written in reverent response-drawing the reader into an unfolding conversation across centuries.Jul...

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Report copyright infringementby Kirk Glaser (Author)Glaser's writing beautifully balances the uncanny atmosphere of the house's haunted memories and the devastating aftermath of the fire with moments of radical vulnerability, making the emotional stakes of the story deeply personal as this family turns devastating loss into a bridge for healing and insight. The House That Fire Built invites readers to walk through the fire of life with a wise, courageous practice in mind-to be a witness to ou...

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Report copyright infringementby Lea Carla Abrams (Author)Journey through Transformation: A Woman's Guide to Overcoming Life's Toughest Challenges. Discover Hope and Healing through Poetry, Reflections and Musings of Personal Triumph....and then she grew wings is a heart-stirring anthology of poems, musings and raw reflections, penned during a pivotal period of transformation. Beginning five years ago, through the throes of life-altering changes, this book weaves a compelling narrative of loss...

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Lo (Author)Winner of the 2025 Grayson Books Chapbook Competition, Ledger of Tiny Losses is a collection of poems that speak to the universal human desire for constancy and stability amid the realities of our temporal existence, our lives rooted in time and personal vulnerability. As each of us must navigate a route between love, loss and hope, these poems will resonate deeply with every reader. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions:...

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Report copyright infringementby Oprelle Publications (Arranged by)MATTER XXIVPoetry is the language of the soul-raw, unfiltered, and eternal. Each piece in this collection stands as a testament to the power of storytelling, the resilience of the human spirit, and the infinite ways we seek to understand ourselves and the world around us. This book is more than a compilation; it is a tapestry of lived experiences, whispered confessions, and unshaken hopes. Each poem holds weight, and each voice...

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Report copyright infringementby Darby Price (Author)All the Lands We Inherit is a searing, heartbreaking, and formally inventive debut memoir about family, legacy, and identity. The story centers around the increasingly tense relationship between the author and her mother, a deeply religious woman who has become self-isolated and recalcitrant amidst her many crises: failing health, financial woes, and the accumulated effects of long-untreated traumas. Author BiographyDarby Price was born and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Connie Jordan Green (Author)In Nameless as the Minnows, poems move through an early consideration of one's yet unrealized self being washed toward a faceless future, into an exploration of growth and resilience through family and loss, and farther into the miracles of forming a new family and finding one's true name among the wonders of the natural world, culminating in the spirit yet reaching toward the stars, the universe, still questioning the unknowable and...

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Report copyright infringementby Lucinda Trew (Author)Lucinda Trew's debut collection, What Falls to Ground, is a meditation on the marvel of gravity and the small broken things that lead us to grace. The poems in this collection commune lyrically with trees and earth, spoons and sky, moths and mortality. They reflect on the earthly path to the celestial, and the magic of physics, nature, loss and renewal. Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Rash (Author)Advance praise for Because the bullet arrivesThe French poet Jean Follain once said, "Guns are the jewelry of men." In Caroline Rash's poems guns can serve as talismans, for both men and women, of desire and love. Her poems have a richness of close attention to detail. Some are vivid speculations about mortality, and affection for those no longer with us. Others celebrate contact with water, contact of body to body, body in contact with th...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Morissette (Author)Once an internationally certified meditation teacher, professional musician, concert technician, and trained audio engineer/music producer, Gary Morissette's life took a dramatic turn when a tragic accident left him a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic. Now, he shares his powerful self-help method for mental wellness, interwoven with an autobiographical collection of his lyrics.Gary lived a rollercoaster lifestyle, battling drug addiction...

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Report copyright infringementby David Gregory Welch (Author)At once deeply personal and infused with a profound respect for its literary predecessors, The Book of Echoes resonates with the speaker's journey through Tourette's syndrome. This exploration of motor tics, echolalia, and phantom speech gradually unfolds into a joyous and surreal celebration of Jack Spicer's insight that "Poems should echo and re-echo against each other. They should create resonances. They cannot live alone any more...