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The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life's work, transporting us to the marshland and... See More
In her legendary career, artist and activist Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, and a voice for social justice who can inform and inspire in times of national crisis... See More
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant... See More
In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversial writers.Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that... See More
A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the... See More
Some people say the first Schomburg/Frey poems appeared during biblical times and that they were read with great joy on Noah's ark. Other folks date the appearance of these poets' duets at around 1978 or 2008. Regardless of... See More
Now on ebook, the brilliant debut by Eula Biss, author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man's Land "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," writes Joan Didion, with a certain skepticism. We also live by the stories we... See More
Is this okay, is this okay, is this okay, or does it make me weak? the poet asks, and then she allows herself the space to unravel an answer. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for best poetry of 2015, The Dogs I Have... See More
Salt Is For Curing is the lush and haunting full-length debut by Sonya Vatomsky. These poems, structured as an elaborate meal, conjure up a vapor of earthly pains and magical desires; like the most enduring rituals... See More
"The poems in Jonterri Gadson's Pepper Girl certainly live up to their title -- spicy, provocative, pungent. These capacious and generous poems hold bodies full of candid desire and blood---the blood of passion, family, and... See More
"The title of Melnick's stunning book is a microcosm of the poems within -- the uncertainty of if I should say followed by the defiance of I have hope. Her poems follow moments of unmooredness (I am best / when I dabble in... See More
Is it June yet? Somewhere between prose and poetry and a graphic-novel, The Inevitable June is the story of your mind: a room with no doors, where the lights are always on. It is a surreal flash-fiction for every day in... See More
In honor of national poetry month, during the month of April, poets across the globe participate in an activity called "30 for 30." It involves writing 1 poem for every day of the month. In 2015, Rudy Francisco decided to... See More
This is the second book by Fortesa Latifi. In her sophomore collection of poetry, Fortesa revisits themes from past writings with a new maturity. We Were Young explores the heartbreaks, hangovers, and hang ups associated... See More
A new chapbook by Wendy Xu. "The tremendous pleasure of following the vectors of Wendy Xu's sharp and sparkling mind makes these poems transformative. 'What if truly one builds an empire of doubt,' she asks and so an uncanny... See More
Widely regarded as the "rock star" of American poetry, Mary Oliver is a writer whose words have long had the power to move countless readers. Regularly topping the national poetry best-seller list and drawing thousands to... See More
"These molten poems radiate with the ferocity of desire, and in them Erdrich does not spin verse so much as tell tales -- of betrayal and revenge, of hunting and being hunted." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune A passionate book... See More
"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. See More
Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems --traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since... See More
We'd all love to stop eating the poisonous parts of our wildness. Ever wondered what it's like to be a celebrated Hollywood actor from the age of eleven? With insightful, no BS, cards-on-the-table poetry that is quite... See More
The greatest Americans Have not been born yet They are waiting quietly For their past to die please give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of... See More
The poems in Robert Hass's new collection -- his first to appear in a decade -- are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is... See More
In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the "Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window,"... See More
This new gathering of Marge Piercy's poems -- energetic, funny, political, full of vitality -- brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982. Here are poems that chart the... See More
Science, birds, Billy the Kid, and lots of feathers surround The Feather Room, Anis Mojgani's follow up to his Pushcart-nominated work, Over the Anvil We Stretch. In The Feather Room, Mojgani further explores storytelling in... See More
A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms. Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her... See More
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the... See More
In her singular voice -- humble, elegiac, practical -- Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five. Kingston's swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh... See More
