Sandpoint, Idaho. Lost Horse Press. 2022. 160 pages.
In November 2013 I met Oleh Lysheha for the first and last time. During that meeting, we chatted about the United States (where Lysheha spent a who…
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Farmington, Maine. Alice James Books. 2023. 100 pages. A foot of fiery red hair chopped from the poet’s head, a hand curled around the braid—this cover image is the initial offering of Katie Farris’s…
Dallas. Phoneme Media. 2022. 128 pages. OUR SOCIOPOLITICAL WORLD is hemorrhaging; when an adroit poetic spirit on the front line documents it with such candor, rigor, and talent, we a…
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2023. 72 pages. DANA GIOIA’S newest book, Meet Me at the Lighthouse, includes several poems that are among the best he has written, especially th…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. 80 pages. THERE IS SOMETHING MAGICAL about receiving a new book by an author who is no longer living. It is an unexpected gift, bringing wit…
New York. Fordham University Press. 2022. 88 pages. “TWO GUARDIANS,” the opening poem of Roberto Tejada’s Why the Assembly Disbanded, brings together the twin motifs of his…
Eugene, Oregon. Resource. 2022. 186 pages. CINEMATIC REVOLUTIONS is the second book of a projected three-part series, inspired by Dante and William Blake. In the preface, Pa…
Rockville, Maryland. Beltway Editions. 2022. 191 pages. “OUR JOURNEY BEGAN with a simple challenge among college friends. One week. One poem. One story to tell.” This was the task th…
Kent, Ohio. Kent State University Press. 2022. 77 pages. IN HER DEBUT verse collection, Farnaz Fatemi skillfully explores the nuanced between-life of Farsi and English and how that ne…
Hexham, UK. Bloodaxe Books. 2022. 80 pages. THE TITLE OF André Naffis-Sahely’s second volume of poetry, High Desert, suggests a collection celebrating a specific place, an e…
Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2022. 200 pages. THIS VOLUME IS a wonder. Drawn from nineteen books of poetry (out of the more than thirty he’s published since 1955), T…
San Francisco. City Lights. 2022. 126 pages WHEN A PERSON chooses to read poetry, it can be for a multitude of reasons, but many of them revolve around a desire to connect with how an…
Kraków. Editions Austeria. 2022. 68 pages. KRZYSZTOF SIWCZYK IS known for his philosophical poetry that yields long lines reasoning out the malaise of adulting, the problematics of i…
Cheshire, Massachusetts. MadHat Press. 2022. 185 pages. IRINA MASHINSKI IS one of the most notable contemporary Russian American translators and poets. While she usually composes poet…
Brooklyn. Black Spruce Press. 2022. 68 pages. MICHAEL JENNINGS’S FIFTEENTH collection of poems is a lyrical triumph. His satisfying lines sing with memory, endured longing, and an imp…
Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press. 2021. 120 pages. GEORGE KALOGERIS’S new poetry collection, Winthropos (2021), is a compelling study of death that will remain s…
Makhanda, South Africa. Deep South. 2022. 90 pages. JIM PASCUAL AGUSTIN’S Bloodred Dragonflies is a stunning, elegiac collection that showcases Agustin’s writing across three…
Illus. Natalia Gurovich. Mexico City. Pluralia Ediciones e Impresiones. 2021. 160 pages. TO PUBLISH POETRY written in endangered Indigenous languages not only preserves the language b…
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 2022. 85 pages. THE AUTHOR OF eight poetry collections, including Ozone Journal, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016, and several award-w…
Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2022. 162 pages. KRYSTUNA DĄBROWSKA (b. 1979) has published five volumes of poetry and won prestigious prizes, including the Kościelski Prize,…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2022. 112 pages. JOSEPH BRODSKY SAID somewhere that “poetry is what every language hopes to become.” This means that poetry is aspirational at the level of lan…
Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2022. 146 pages. RECENTLY I FOUND myself way high up in the hills of Berkeley—at the outermost lip of Tilden Park, when the blue-gray dusk turned all…
Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 2022. 124 pages. ON THE OPENING PAGE of her newest collection, Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse, Iranian-born poet Sholeh Wolpé s…
Philadelphia. Paul Dry Books. 2022. 69 pages. A little over halfway through Boris Dralyuk’s new collection of poems, in one of its many sonnets, the reader meets a beguiling but familiar image: a man…
Makhanda, South Africa. Deep South. 2021. 67 pages. Dimakatso Sedite’s marvelous debut, Yellow Shade, opens with the poem “Middle-town,” a meditation on the speaker’s origins in a township i…