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  • Cue

    Cue

    By Siwar Masannat

    Jordanian poet Siwar Masannat’s Cue (University of Georgia Press, 2024) is a finely wrought and...

    $20.95
  • Barley Child

    Barley Child

    By Greg Rappleye

    An old West Irish response to the knock of an unexpected visitor—“Are ye of the...

    $19.95
  • Mandible Wishbone Solvent

    Mandible Wishbone Solvent

    By Asiya Wadud

    Geography has never been so disastrously flexible. The geography of the world, while the literal,...

    $18.00
  • Pinion

    Pinion

    By Monica Rico

    “To find an owl I must follow the crow . . .” so writes Mexican...

    $17.95
  • We Contain Landscapes

    We Contain Landscapes

    By Patrycja Humienik

    In We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025), Patrycja Humienik journeys through memory—personal and communal—reflecting on...

    $16.95
  • Extinction of the Holy City

    Extinction of the Holy City

    By Bronisław Maj

    After World War II, multicultural Poland was forcibly rearranged. German speakers were expulsed from the...

    $17.95
  • Querida

    Querida

    By Nathan Xavier Osorio

    Embedded in place and lush with family, Nathan Xavier Osorio’s collection Querida offers an intimate...

    $18
  • I Was Working

    I Was Working

    By Ariel Yelen

    Do you occasionally fold an invoice into the shape of a futuristic spacecraft, or twist...

    $17.95
  • Milk for Gall

    Milk for Gall

    By Natalie Louise Tombasco

    Upon reading Milk for Gall, the debut poetry collection from Natalie Louise Tombasco and winner...

    $18.95
  • Notation

    Notation

    By Jordan Dunn

    It is a shame that reading calls for a silent, sitting period. It is difficult,...

    $17.95
  • The Animal Is Chemical

    The Animal Is Chemical

    By Hadara Bar-Nadav

    Hadara Bar-Nadav’s The Animal Is Chemical is a poetry collection in which generational trauma, global...

    $17.95
  • Red Ocher

    Red Ocher

    By Jessica Poli

    Jessica Poli’s debut collection, Red Ocher, stirs with its reverential questioning of ritual, boundary, and...

    $19.95
  • Inner Verses

    Inner Verses

    By Pam Rehm

    Pam Rehm’s seventh collection and her first with Wave Books, Inner Verses, gifts the reader...

    $18
  • The Fire Road

    The Fire Road

    By Nicholas Yingling

    Nicholas Yingling’s debut, The Fire Road, is a place-based poetry collection focusing on Western wildfires...

    $18
  • Mom in Space

    Mom in Space

    By Lisa Ampleman

    Driven by an infectious curiosity even amid calamity, Mom in Space explores the stunning insights...

    $22.95
  • Ghost Man on Second

    Ghost Man on Second

    By Erica Reid

    Erica Reid’s “Ghost Man,” an imaginary man who held the speaker’s place on bases during...

    $17.95
  • The Signalman

    The Signalman

    By Ezra Miles

    In Ezra Miles’s The Signalman, the weight of silence and solitude lowers and reshapes an...

    $17
  • The Real Ethereal

    The Real Ethereal

    By Katie Naughton

    Katie Naughton’s first book of poetry, The Real Ethereal, is as timely as it is...

    $20
  • Four Fields

    Four Fields

    By Dorinda Wegener

    Dorinda Wegener’s debut collection Four Fields builds a world for the reader to step into...

    $18
  • Fanling in October

    Fanling in October

    By Pui Ying Wong

    Fanling in October opens with a journey back to Pui Ying Wong’s Hong Kong roots,...

    $18