POETRY / American / General

A new retrospective of a titan of LGBTQ literature, activism, and Black feminism Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates...

An exposed and exposing collection of poetry on inherited trauma, chronic illness, and the American South

Poems on Black joy, masculinity, and the music that transforms a space into a home

Groundbreaking feminist poems featuring an artificial womb and an apocalyptic future

Quiet Armor, the third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards, examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships and, more broadly, intimacy.

In his debut collection, Portrait of Us Burning, Sebastián H. Páramo explores how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his half brother and to his family’s burning desire to become American.

A vital breath of life arrives in American poetry with Synthetic Jungle, the latest from award-winning poet Michael Chang. At once hilarious and scathing, Synthetic Jungle effortlessly bashes convention while rebuilding the language we use to communicate our fears and joys.

C. Russell Price's debut collection is a somatic grimoire exploring desire, gender, and sexuality. It asks: What is radical vengeance? Does true survivorship from sexual trauma exist only in fantasy, or is it an attainable reality?

These political love poems challenge the injustices of ageism, racism, isolation, and oppression with bravery and kindness.