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  • Rituals

    Rituals

    By Kiriti Sengupta

    Change is inevitable and Sengupta himself sets out as a wandering minstrel to bring out...

    $9.99
  • Brute

    Brute

    By Emily Skaja

    There is no doubt that these poems are brutal—harsh in their insistence on wanting to...

    $16.00
  • Zoom

    Zoom

    By Susan Lewis

    In this beautiful poem, almost a personal creed, Lewis brings together science, nature, and our...

    $17.00
  • Excess—The Factory

    Excess—The Factory

    By Leslie Kaplan, translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap

    But again, the underlying sense of the collective is layered in as well: we are...

    $16.00
  • Kill Class

    Kill Class

    By Nomi Stone

    Language is always an essential agent in the construction of imagined war scenarios and political...

    $17.95
  • Doomstead Days

    Doomstead Days

    By Brian Teare

    What sprouts from his burned bracts is the realization that the environmental disaster we have...

    $17.95
  • The Tradition

    The Tradition

    By Jericho Brown

    What’s more, Brown’s development of the “duplex”—a sonnet-like repetitive form, whose name recalls apartment-style housing—showcases...

    $17.00
  • Age of Glass

    Age of Glass

    By Anna Maria Hong

    Hong's literary landscape is the sonnet. All but three poems riff on this form. Hong's...

    $16.00
  • Adorable Airport

    Adorable Airport

    By Jacqueline Lyons

    Ultimately, we are left with an existence, the poet seems to suggest, that hovers between...

    $16.95
  • The Trailhead

    The Trailhead

    By Kerri Webster

    The body knows, can achieve this knowledge through mythic journeys and discipline, but there’s a...

    $24.95
  • Near/Miss

    Near/Miss

    By Charles Bernstein

    Instead, lines, and the rhetoric that they contain, shuffle forward and back, make progress...

    $25.00
  • Flung Throne

    Flung Throne

    By Cody-Rose Clevidence

    For Clevidence, the world is not too much with us; we ourselves are simply too...

    $18.00
  • Xamissa

    Xamissa

    By Henk Rossouw

    The move, of course, is a standard one within left-oriented postcolonial poetics, letting oppressed languages...

    $24.00
  • With the Dogstar as My Witness

    With the Dogstar as My Witness

    By John Fry

    Most successfully, fractured syntax, lush imagery, and the implicit silence of spatial interruption create pleasurable...

    $16.00
  • Stet

    Stet

    By Dora Malech

    Malech’s constraints are a departure from her earlier work, but she also uses the page...

    $17.95
  • A Piece of Good News

    A Piece of Good News

    By Katie Peterson

    From this rich literal and figurative vein, Peterson mines the many forms of interchange—cultural, economic,...

    $11.99
  • We Step into the Sea

    We Step into the Sea

    By Claudia Keelan

    One of the great pleasures of reading across Keelan’s body of work is seeing how...

    $24.95
  • Isako Isako

    Isako Isako

    By Mia Ayumi Malhotra

    We, too, have seen this kind of semidocumentary poetics before; whereas the rummaging of personal...

    $15.95
  • Peaches Goes It Alone

    Peaches Goes It Alone

    By Frederick Seidel

    Frederick Seidel has long taken pleasure in the absurdities of everyday American life. Under his...

    $24.00
  • Babette

    Babette

    By Sara Deniz Akant

    Akant troubles the borders between life and death, between consciousness and the unconscious, through a...

    $16.00