Roma Roam
by Nathalie Handal
Barrow Street Press, October 2026
Paperback, e-Book, $18
Handal chronicles an unraveling after a lover’s betrayals, with Rome as a crossroads of Mediterranean diaspora, where past and present, city and lover collide.
The Marvels
by David Orr
Four Way Books, September 2026
Paperback, e-Book, $17.95
In his second collection, Orr writes from the conviction that the available world is enough: its worn shirts, coffee cups, rainbows, buses, obsolete machines, failed plans, neighborly borders, and minor acts of courtesy.
When Watermelon Had Seeds: Thought-Provoking Poems
by Edmond Bruneau
Boston Books, September 2025
Hardcover, $35.99
In his sixth poetry collection, Edmond Bruneau evokes a bygone world through 141 concise, approachable poems blending wit, wordplay, nostalgia, and reflection. The collection also includes the bonus short story “Why Dogs Hate Cats” and is available in multiple formats.
Thumb to Thumb … and Yet
by Peter Coyote
Four Way Books, September 2026
Paperback, e-Book, $17.95
Coyote presents eighty-plus years of living—countercultural adventures, Zen Buddhist practice, marriage and divorce, a public career in entertainment, and the private rewards of parenthood—not as a retrospective but a perpetual process of becoming.
Skeletons, Sequins, and Kin
by Wednesdae Reim Ifrach
Finishing Line Press, October 2026
Paperback, $17.99
Reim Ifrach’s poetry collection traces the queer body as battleground and sanctuary. Spanning embodiment, chosen family, nightlife liturgy, and inherited memory, these tender yet defiant poems illuminate radical kinship and survival.
Twilight
by Cynthia Cruz
Four Way Books, September 2026
Paperback, e-Book, $17.95
Twilight is the intermediary state of becoming, the suspension between, when one is no longer who one was and not yet who they will be. Cruz’s elliptical poems present a working through of the term.
Leap & Grow Feathers
by Yona Harvey
Four Way Books, September 2026
Paperback, e-Book, $17.95
Both an instruction and a divination, the poet’s third full-length collection is an extraordinary transmission. Harvey listens—to her predecessors, her instincts, and her environment—knowing that the personal and the historical travel along the same frequency.
Small Talk
by Acie Clark
Hub City Press, September 2026
Paperback, $16.95
The New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize winner’s debut collection asks us to lean into conversation. In platonic love poems, interfaith self-talk, and images of the queer South, Clark calls contradictions into question.
Letters of the Alphabet Go to War
by Lesyk Panasiuk, translated from the Ukrainian by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky
Sarabande Books, January 2026
Paperback, $17.95
From the acclaimed Ukrainian writer, Panasiuk’s collection is about the rupture of language and the natural world during war. This slim book bears great weight.
Safe Rooms
by Rae Armantrout
Wesleyan University Press, August 2026
Paperback, $16.95
Armantrout explores the undercurrents of modern life with an unflinching eye on human nature, social malaise, and the unsettling ways we attempt to protect ourselves from a world that continually undermines our sense of safety.
Intifadas
by Edward Salem
Sarabande Books, April 2026
Paperback, $17.95
This subtly transgressive poetry collection, at turns furious, tender, and darkly funny, is about uprising in its many forms—in art, in politics, and in our most personal relationships—and answers with poems that refuse easy consolations.
Still House in the Desert
by Brenda Hillman
Wesleyan University Press, September 2026
Hardcover, $28
Hillman concludes her masterful quartet about time with an ecological journey into a mid-twentieth-century home. Magical poems explore rooms as opportunities for dreaming and domestic objects as dream-shapes where culture and imagination inform each other.
Being Modernists Together
by Elizabeth Robinson
Solid Objects, November 2026
Hardcover, $18
Robinson brings various Modernist figures into imaginary contact with one another. These encounters cast each figure’s significance and imprint into relief as they transform readers’ notions of cultural and literary history.
Love Like a Body Carried to Shore
by Abigail Chabitnoy
Wesleyan University Press, November 2026
Paperback, $16.95
Amid ecological and cultural precarity, these poems seek moments outside of causal time, where future catastrophe loosens its hold long enough for the body to remember what it is to love the world and to be loved by it.
JOAN
by Jake Rose
The University of Chicago Press, March 2026
Paperback, $18
Winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize, Joan reimagines Joan of Arc through a queer autobiographical lens, tracing an intimate story of transformation, desire, and political violence in a narrative sequence of lyric poems.