Departing from the more whimsical tone of  A Glossary of Chickens , Whitehead's last book, this new collection explores, among other subjects ...

Rachel Custer's  Flatback Sally Country  is hard-hitting and harrowing and almost hypnotically beautiful in its deft singing of the stories ...

Open this book at random and find a trove of thrilling images and unexpected metaphors: tiny bells jingling like sins, “a cool lake of indifference ...

How can I—or anyone—not adore David Graham’s new collection? The tone throughout is hospitable, wry, and affirming even while acknowledging ...

In Saba Husain's  Elegy for My Tongue , the everyday is always in conversation with the enormous-with the complexities of immigration, national identity ...

"Why remember the dead?" poet Kathy Nelson begins this sobering meditation, a descent and rise through what's lost and sometimes found again, her keen ...

In Leaves Surface Like Skin , Michelle Menting articulates gorgeous, strange visions of nature inflected by human interference. A forest is interrupted ...

"Cognizant of loss but always celebratory, Lockward's poems are irreverent, ravenous for the world, and unabashedly female. When. 'In Losing the Blues ...

Editors Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham selected fifty-four poems by fifty-one poets, happily including Denise Duhamel, Jack Bedell, Mira Rosenthal ...

In this extraordinary collection, Ann Fisher-Wirth looks levelly at mortality, grief, and memory, and reckons with what it is to be urgently alive, bringing ...