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Migrant Psalms
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Written as a call to action, Migrant Psalms pulls together prayer, popular culture, and technology to tell a twenty‑first-century migrant story. Through the speaker’s quest to become an American, this collection asks: Who are we becoming as individuals, as a society, as a nation, as a world? And, is faith enough to enact change? Or is it just the first step?
Blood of the Air
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This book of poems creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song, particularly through several instances of found poetry.
Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone
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Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone is the first full collection of work by New York poet Thiahera Nurse.
Creance; or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite
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In Creance; or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite, Andrew Colarusso hybridizes lost and unknown spaces, taking his title from a falconry term for the cord used to restrain a bird. The word derives from the late fifteenth century, from the French créance (“faith”), also denoting a cord to retain a bird of peu de créance (“of little faith,” i.e., which cannot yet be relied upon). Poems of personal narrative and metaphorical depth speak for the voices searching—in a world that lashes out or looks right past what remains tethered to the past—the parts that occupy the whispers of wanting, the dreams of finally being seen.
Dulce
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Dulce is a debut poetry chapbook by acclaimed young poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. His poetry invites readers to challenge and negate borders and categories between citizen and noncitizen, queer and straight, man and woman.
Nowhere to Arrive
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Nowhere to Arrive is an original collection of poems by award-winning writer Jenny Xie. The collection features two long poems, titled "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season" and "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season."
The University of Hip-Hop
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The University of Hip Hop is a collection of eleven original poems by poet and performer Mayda Del Valle, winner of the National Poetry Slam Individual title and Nuyorican Poet's Café Grand Slam Championship and National Poetry Slam Individual title. The collection is an homage to her hometown of Chicago.
The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named
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At turns humorous and heartbreaking, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named explores in both formal and free verse what it means to die, which is to say, also, what it means to live. In this collection, Sealey displays an exquisite sense of the lyric, as well as an acute political awareness. Never heavy-handed or dogmatic, the poems included in this slim volume excavate the shadows of both personal and collective memory and are, at all points, relentless. To quote the poet herself, here is a debut as luminous and unforgiving "as the unsparing light at tunnel’s end."
Instructions for Folding
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In one of the poems in Instructions for Folding, Willie Lin writes, “it seemed you were away but not beyond language.” And accordingly, the voice in these poems is sometimes fervid, sometimes wry, moved to speech by the specific desire to speak to someone. The poems often progress associatively, following a kind of lyric logic of involution, disruption, and juxtaposition. They rehearse the work of learning the heft and shape of memories. They revel in failures and take pleasure in mourning. They bristle with narrative suggestiveness, weaving an austere music against a scrim of love, loneliness, secrets, and elation.
Mouth Filled with Night
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The winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, Rodney Gomez’s collection Mouth Filled with Night employs familiar emblems of Mexican American identity to repeatedly subvert expectations while intensifying the dilemmas of affiliation. The poems run beyond more conventional ideas of agency, identity, and experience, creating a newly invigorated imaginative space.
Migrant Psalms
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Blood of the Air
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Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Creance; or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Dulce
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Nowhere to Arrive
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
The University of Hip-Hop
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named
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Instructions for Folding
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
In one of the poems in Instructions for Folding, Willie Lin writes, “it seemed you were away but not beyond language.” And accordingly, the voice in these poems is sometimes fervid, sometimes wry, moved to speech by the specific desire to speak to someone. The poems often progress associatively, following a kind of lyric logic of involution, disruption, and juxtaposition. They rehearse the work of learning the heft and shape of memories. They revel in failures and take pleasure in mourning. They bristle with narrative suggestiveness, weaving an austere music against a scrim of love, loneliness, secrets, and elation.
Mouth Filled with Night
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize