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In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to

'What truths would you utter from your mouthIf you could tell us your story'- The Possible Lives of W.H., SailorIn this powerful and deeply moving poetic narrative, author/artist Bushra J

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub A new collection of vivid, personal and provocative work from the author of Or to Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in poetry

Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry.

A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.

A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I.

Tomasz Różycki’s To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair.

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe - in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do.

Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. A New Yorker Essential Read. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature.

An exciting new collection of poems by "one of the Spanish-speaking world's greatest living writers" (LA Review of Books).

Bebakhshid revolves around intimate identity intersections of being Iranian, an immigrant, and a woman.

Shannon Webb-Campbell's Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within the self.

The Four-Doored House evokes two key women in Pierre Nepveu's life.

Anita Lahey writes the kind of rigorously observed, emotionally charged poetry few can match.

In his commanding poetry debut, Wolf Sonnets, R. P. LaRose undoes the sonnet's classical constraints, retooling the form for current political circumstances.