Ecstasy
by Alex Dimitrov
Alfred A. Knopf, April 2025
Hardcover, $29
A fearless, revelatory collection from one of the most talked-about poets in America, whose poems have been embraced by critics and readers alike as candid, intimate, and magnetically charged.
Wickerwork
by Christian Lehnert, translated from the German by Richard Sieburth
Archipelago Books, April 2025
Paperback, $24
“Timeless, ecstatic, original: Richard Sieburth creates an intricate music for Christian Lehnert's crystalline poems . . . To read these poems is to put a finger on the pulse of life . . . An incandescent experience.” —Rosanna Warren
Scream / Queen: Poems
by CD Eskilson
Acre Books, March 2025
Paperback, $17
A debut poetry collection drawing on horror-movie tropes to examine the body—both its traumas and its possibilities.
Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo Story
by Danielle Legros Georges
Beacon Press, January 2025
Paperback, $17
The final collection of the “poet who always responded to the moment” (Edwidge Danticat): A Haitian-born, Boston-based woman explores the personal and political stories of Haitians who were part of Congo’s 1960s decolonization movement
Homeland of My Body: New & Selected Poems
by Richard Blanco
Beacon Press, March 2025
Paperback, $18
Richard Blanco’s latest collection of over 100 poems, with 2 sections of new content, now in paperback—a gift for Blanco’s dedicated readers and for those who have yet to discover the power of poetry.
boy maybe: poems
by W. J. Lofton
Beacon Press, March 2025
Paperback, $17
An intersectional exploration of what it means to be Black, queer, and Southern by a Cave Canem fellow. Vivid and accessible, Lofton writes about sweet tea and hot sauce, police brutality and extrajudicial killings.
Field Guide for Accidents: Poems
by Albert Abonado
Beacon Press, October 2025
Paperback, Price: $18
A National Poetry Series-winning collection
Filipino-American poet Albert Abonado is no stranger to the periphery. Blending realism with Pinoy folklore, Abonado wrestles with what it means to consume and be consumed by American culture.
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
by Keetje Kuipers
BOA Editions, April 2025
Paperback, $19
The daring and deeply sexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual. In this book, astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with the fetishization of freedom and the terror of desire.
Black California Gold
by Wendy Thompson
Bucknell University Press, March 2025
Hardcover, $49.95; Paperback and eBook, $19.95
In this arresting debut poetry collection, Thompson traces the past and present of California’s Bay Area, exploring themes of family, migration, girlhood, and identity against a backdrop of urban redevelopment, advanced gentrification, and the erasure of Black communities.
Beyond the Watershed
by Nadia Alexis
CavanKerry Press, March 2025
Paperback, $18
Through poetry and photography, this book explores trauma, survival, healing, and resilience experienced by a Haitian immigrant mother and Haitian American daughter. It depicts journeys from abuse to freedom, contemplating connections between the Black female experience and the natural world.
I Woke a Lake
by Susan McCabe
Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State, June 2025
Paperback, $16.95; eBook, $13.95
I Woke a Lake faces the anxieties of climate change, extinctions, and political chaos, as Susan McCabe’s poems weave together the fragile fabric of worlds imagined and lost, both palpable and present.
The Central Avenue Poetry Prize 2025
edited by Beau Adler
Central Avenue Poetry, April 2025
Paperback, $17
This second volume of The Central Avenue Poetry Prize showcases diverse poets worldwide, weaving heartache, longing, laughter, and life’s essence. Through beauty, truth, and reflection, it celebrates poetry as an intimate, connective act of living.
Glib
by Ashley Escobar
Changes Press, May 2025
Paperback, $24.99
Ashley Escobar’s sparkling, fast-paced debut poetry collection, Glib, is a trickster diary, a walking tour, a first-take raw-but-genius voice memo sent over text, a cardiogram for the arrhythmias of contemporary heart life. It is the winner of the Changes Book Prize, selected by Eileen Myles.
Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece
(City Lights Pocket Poets Series No. 64)
by Nasser Rabah
City Lights, April 2025
Paperback, $17.95
Like Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Vallejo, Gazan poet Nasser Rabah embodies the magnificent possibilities of the human spirit and imagination under extreme conditions. “Nasser Rabah is my favorite living poet in Palestine.” —Mosab Abu Toha, author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
The Essential C. D. Wright
by C. D. Wright
edited by Forrest Gander and Michael Wiegers
Copper Canyon Press, May 2025
Paperback, $22
With an introduction by Forrest Gander, The Essential C. D. Wright gathers selections from across this inimitable poet’s entire oeuvre—alongside an astonishing set of rare, previously uncollected poems—distilling an utterly original voice into one volume.
Poet in the New World
by Czesław Miłosz
Ecco Books, February 2025
Hardcover, $28
A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C., and his years in Europe before and after.
Red Wilderness
by Aaron Coleman
Four Way Books, March 2025
Paperback, $17.95
Aaron Coleman’s second collection interpolates American history with his own family’s legacy, reflecting on national identity, Blackness, taboo, faith, and remembrance while enacting a multigenerational chorus of poems that stretches back to the Civil War.
Haiku and Hope: 50 States of Climate Change
by Maggie Dewane
Fulcrum Books, April 2025
Paperback, $16.95
For the nature enthusiast, the climate activist, and the poetry lover, Haiku and Hope offers a unique exploration of the U.S. through the evocative lens of haiku, imagining each state before and after climate change.
Little Mercy
by Robin Walter
Graywolf Press, April 2025
Paperback, $17
Winner of the Academy’s First Book Award, selected by Victoria Chang.
“If each day that we’re still alive on earth is a little mercy, so too is this tender, exciting spell of a debut.” —Carl Phillips
When We Talk to God: Prayers and Poems for Black Women by Sharifa Stevens
HarperCollins Christian Publishing, May 2025
Hardcover, $19.99
When We Talk to God by Sharifa Stevens is a heartfelt collection of prayers, poems, and artwork for Black women. It’s the perfect gift for any occasion, offering inspiration, validation, and a deep connection to God.
Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall
by Stephanie Burt
Harvard University Press, April 2025
Hardcover and eBook, $29.95
A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poetry critic and beloved professor Stephanie Burt that brings together fifty-one works encompassing the evolutions of queer and transgender verse after the Stonewall uprising in June 1969.
We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word
edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu
Haymarket Books, September 2024
Paperback, $19.95
A beautiful anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label “Asian American and Pacific Islander” in today’s world.
Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water
by E. Hughes
Haymarket Books, October 2024
Paperback, $17
Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water is a debut collection of lyric poems interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration from the South to Northern California.
Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration
edited by Diana Marie Delgado
Haymarket Books, March 2025
Paperback, $24.95
Like a Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America’s incarceration system. The poets gathered here aim to foreground the real experiences of people touched by the system, upend dominant narratives, shine light on injustice, and act as a fulcrum around which to organize communities in support of change.
Reprise: Poems and Photographs
by Golden
Haymarket Books, March 2025
Hardcover, $29.95
A visual and lyrical declaration filled with fever and flight, Reprise, Golden’s second collection of poetry and photography maps a personal search for safety in a U.S. that offers none.
The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration
edited by Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
Haymarket Books, April 2025
Paperback, $24.95
An anthology of poetry on Nikkei incarceration, written by the descendants of those of Japanese ancestry who were forcibly held during WWII in government “relocation centers,” The Gate of Memory is a tribute to the 150,000 people interned by the United States and Canada.
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi
Haymarket Books, May 2025
Paperback, $24.95
A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free Palestine.
I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems
by Sarah Ruden,
Library of America, March 2025
Hardcover and eBook, $22
Acclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of six of Sylvia Plath’s most memorable poems, revealing the full range and towering ambition of a great American poet.
Small Wars Manual
by Chris Santiago
Milkweed Editions, April 2025
Paperback, $18
“Small Wars Manual is a masterpiece, one of those books I read and know at once I’ll be coming back to the rest of my life.” —Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr
Love Is a Dangerous Word
by Essex Hemphill
New Directions, March 2025
Paperback, $16.95
“Hemphill was really the root for me.” —Jericho Brown
“He’s making something that has never been made or said before. He gives me hope and strength.” —Audre Lorde
I Hope this Helps
by Samiya Bashir
Nightboat, May 2025
Paperback and eBook, $18.95
Seven years after Field Theories, Samiya Bashir’s third collection, which won the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, comes I Hope this Helps. Bashir’s work, both collaborative and individual, has been published, printed, and performed across the U.S. and abroad—and appears here in a culmination of her multimedia practice.
Daisy: Poems
by Rachel Feder
Northwestern University Press, April 2025
Paperback and eBook, $18
With the spirit of fluffy pink pens from Clueless and murderous teens from Heathers, Daisy is a tongue-in-cheek romp of a retelling of The Great Gatsby with the main characters now teens in the nineties.
However & Wherever We Are: Poems from Persea’s First Fifty Years
Persea Books, April 2025
Paperback, $20
Small yet formidable (like Persea itself), this anthology is a showcase for many of the irreplaceable poets the press has published over its first half-century—poets of striking imagination, lyricism, insight, and conscience.
Going Out and Being Normal
by Vaughn M. Watson
Press 53, March 2025
Paperback, $17.95
In Going Out and Being Normal, Vaughn M. Watson examines a broken society and takes readers on a journey through the mind of an overthinker and chronic observer who just wants to get things right.
The Minotaur’s Daughter: Selected Poems
by Eva Luka
translated by James Sutherland-Smith
Seagull Books, March 2025
Paperback, $21
The Minotaur’s Daughter blends mythology, nature, and personal freedom, exploring sexuality, desire, and transformation. Defying artistic conformity, Eva Luka’s poetry embraces fluid identities while capturing the terror and beauty of existence with profound lyricism.
The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection
edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Storey Publishing, April 2025
Hardcover, $25
Featuring words from a range of contemporary poets and a foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Gift of Animals offers a profound tribute to the community of creatures that accompany us on Earth.
Ultraviolet of the Genuine
by Hannah Brooks-Motl
The Song Cave, March 2025
Paperback, $18.95
This collection is a record of time and thought, weaving together philosophy, dreams, grief, literary theory, history, and ideas of utopia to propose a new metaphysics, weighing everyday moments wherein the elusive and ultraviolet radiate.
Lantana, or the Indissoluble Exhalation
by Bruno Darío
translated by Kit Schluter
Ugly Duckling Presse, June 2025
Paperback, $22
This bilingual edition marks the first appearance of Bruno Darío’s complete trilogy in a single volume. By turns sardonic and lyrical, scathing and irreverent, these texts firmly establish Darío as one of Mexico’s most daring poets.
Barley Child: Poems
by Greg Rappleye
University of Arkansas Press, March 2025
Paperback, $19.95
Free of nostalgia and cant, with a sharp Irish wit that often braves nearly monstrous subject matter, Barley Child is a volume that once again confirms Greg Rappleye as a poet of witness.
Dissonance
by Kristin Dykstra
University of Chicago Press, March 2025
Paperback, $18
A collection of poems and photographs that take the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains as a microcosm for considering climate change, borders, and community life.
The Odyssey
by Homer
translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
University of Chicago Press, April 2025
Hardcover, $39
“Mendelsohn’s brilliant, supple, and radiant translation gives us not only the marvelously freighted yet buoyant craft itself, but the pulsing experience of its ongoing momentum and reach.” —Jorie Graham, author of To 2040
The Occupant
by Jennifer Maier
University of Pittsburgh Press, April 2025
Paperback, $20
"From the moment I began to read, these poems took my breath away—or quieted it.... The Occupant’s enchantment is also the reader’s.” —Sharon Bryan, author of Sharp Stars
The Meek
by Martin Dyar
Wake Forest University Press, April 2025
Paperback, $15.95
True voices abound in The Meek, Martin Dyar’s second full-length collection. Throughout, a dramatically charged lyricism leans simultaneously toward an emotive exploration of human experience and environmental understanding “that all of life is love misunderstood.”
Scorched Earth
by Tiana Clark
Washington Square Press, March 2025
Paperback, $17.99
A striking, transcendent sophomore poetry collection from a generational voice that “earns a place among the pantheon of such emerging black poets as Eve L. Ewing, Nicole Sealey, and Airea D. Matthews.” —Booklist, starred review
In the Bone-Cracking Cold
by M. Bartley Seigel
Wayne State University Press, March 2025
Paperback, $19.99
“An engrossing and deeply immersive book—part love song, part monument, part elegy, wholly unforgettable.” —Roxane Gay. Artfully wrought poems tracing the intimate contours of self, nature, and history.
Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic
edited by Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Johannes Riquet
Wesleyan University Press, March 2025
Hardcover, $30
An innovatively foundational book about experiences and conceptions of
geography in the circumpolar world. The book centers Arctic writers and artists as
creators of space and disseminators of geographical knowledge emerging from
Indigenous epistemologies.