Almanac of Useless Talents

By Michael Chang

As a queer college kid studying poetry twenty years ago, I felt the sting of...

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Homesickness

By Colin Barrett

The Irish writer Colin Barrett’s second story collection, Homesickness, contains memorable portraits of characters who...

$27

On Hysteria

By Nancy Kuhl

Nancy Kuhl’s On Hysteria doubts and criticizes the idea of cohesiveness—of opinions, memories, and even...

$18

Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking

By C. T. Salazar

Recently, I attended a wedding in the Catholic church on the campus where I went...

$16

Breakpoint

By Betsy Aoki

While reading Betsy Aoki’s “techno-lit” poetry collection Breakpoint, my mind kept returning to a specific...

$17

As Summer Tilts Autumnal: Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor

By David Baker, Rachel Abramowitz, Peter O'Leary

Whale Fall by David Baker (2022) W. W. Norton In poems as formally astute as...

The Forgotten World

By Nick Courtright

The Forgotten World, Nick Courtright’s engrossing and multilayered third poetry collection, features the poet’s pre-pandemic,...

$15.95

If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope

By Colin Fleming

If Colin Fleming’s collection of stories If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope fails...

$16.95

Anchor

By Rebecca Aronson

Rebecca Aronson’s Anchor provides consistent reminders of what it means to be part of a...

$14

The Predatory Animal Ball

By Jennifer Fliss

Jennifer Fliss jolts the reader awake in her debut collection, The Predatory Animal Ball. She...

$14.99

XO

By Sara Rauch

The prolific French novelist and memoirist Annie Ernaux opens Simple Passion—a slim autobiographical novel narrating...

$14

It Must Be a Misunderstanding

By Coral Bracho (translated by Forrest Gander)

For the past few years, I’ve watched my father’s steady decline as he’s suffered from...

$16.95

fretwork

By Michele Glazer

In her intimate collection fretwork, Michele Glazer creates an expansive elegy that views loss from...

$19

Questions From Outer Space

By Diane Thiel

Questions From Outer Space is about coming to terms with humanity’s destructive choices and orienting...

$16.95

Wild Kingdom

By Jehanne Dubrow

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2 A.M. in Little America

By Ken Kalfus

As with pop music and fashion, literature tends to follow the tide of emergent cultural...

$25

Pocket Universe

By Nancy Reddy

Nancy Reddy’s Pocket Universe is a tender and expansive poetry collection on new motherhood. Following...

$18.95

Irredenta

By Oscar Oswald

Tucked between descriptions of the close combat occurring throughout major Ukrainian cities and the very...

$16.95

The Long Devotion: Poets Writing on Motherhood

By edited by Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy

While reading this wonderfully expansive anthology, I was reminded of what prolific feminist writer bell...

$26.95

Genghis Chan on Drums

By John Yau

Whenever I read John Yau’s poetry or fiction, I am reminded of Johannes Gӧransson’s “foreigner,”...

$17.95

A List of Things I’ve Lost

By Tiffany Babb

In her debut poetry collection, A List of Things I’ve Lost, Tiffany Babb lingers on...

$16.95

Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara

By William Fargason

In his debut collection, Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara, William Fargason explores...

$19.95

Trickster Academy

By Jenny L. Davis

With a wry humor that softens reality’s hard edges, the poems in Jenny L. Davis’s...

$16.95

Asylum

By Nina Shope

Asylum is novelist Nina Shope’s disturbing and complex story of how men control women’s bodies...

$16.95