We’re excited to share this year-end roundup of poetry anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length collections published in 2025 by independent literary publishers! Read our year-end roundups of fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and art and drama as well.
Poetry Anthologies
trace press | January 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-775-2567-6-2
Edited by Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj, this bilingual poetry anthology features George Abraham, Eman Abukhadra, Omar Aljaffal, and more poets and translators writing in Arabic and English.
Red Ogre Review | December 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798276797397
This collection is Red Ogre Review’s “fourth yearly anthology of poetry and prose poetry, spanning magazine issues from October 2024 through September 2025.”
Ecobloomspaces: Poetry at the Intersection of Social Identity and Nature, Environment, and Place
Iron Oak Editions | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9896084-2-3
This anthology—edited by Ken R. Harmon and featuring poems by Dare Williams, Hannah Bonner, Geneva Toland, and more—explores “the relationships among socially constructed identities, geographies (space/place), dynamic movement, nature and the nonhuman world.”
PGN Publishing | July 9, 2025
ISBN: 9781739288112
This ekphrastic anthology of poetry features work by thirteen poets “responding to black and white imagery, presented in a large journal format.”
Delicate Machinery: Poems on Survival and Healing
Sundress Publications | July 29, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951979-82-9
In this e-anthology edited by Erin Elizabeth Smith, thirty-three writers “share their experiences with sexual trauma, each poem raw and tender like a thumb pressing a bruise.”
Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets
Two Lines Press | September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949641-84-4
Five Afghan poets “wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war-torn country and its diaspora” in this anthology.
The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders
Paloma Press | September 18, 2025
ISBN: 9781734496574
Originally envisioned as a companion to the first US National Nature Assessment, this poetry anthology edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler gathers 210 voices “giving witness to how nature shapes our lives and how we can shape the future.”
Praisesong for the People: Poems from the Heart and Soul of Texas
Host Publications | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7376050-9-6
Edited by Amanda Johnston, this anthology celebrating Texas features poems that “gather in a heartfelt chorus to praise the people in their communities who offer small kindnesses, asking nothing in return.”
Poetry Chapbooks
Abode Press | January 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9900598-4-9
“Alert to the sins and sorrows of our indignant time,” Chang’s chapbook “queers language and culture to critique 21st century living.”
Rainproof Press | January 31, 2025
This poetry chapbook “speaks of a vast journey of the self, sweeping from the underworld to outer space and giving voice to the mysteries of memory and survival.”
Lefty Blondie Press | February 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9860932-3-9
According to Anne Marie Macari, this bilingual tribute to Jean Valentine is a “poem, in ten short parts, about transition and the coming together of worlds.”
Fonograf Editions | February 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-30-7
This chapbook is “interested in the way that what appears as money is often funded by debt, while also taking into account the role of art, something that offers social capital without the accompanying wealth.”
Waveforms: A Short Course in Piano Tuning by Andrea Hackbarth
Small Harbor Publishing | February 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-44-8
According to Han Vanderhart, Hackbarth “shows so clearly the infinite possibility of attention and love, grounding both practices in the relationship of a piano tuner and their instrument.”
Hard Bargain by Heather Treseler
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-54-0
According to Willard Spiegelman, Treseler is a “calm anatomist of many things—family, suburbs, ordinariness, human love in its multiple manifestations, museums, ancient Rome—but the surface of her poems covers often startling, deep, painful, even murderous depths.”
The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020 by Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade
Small Harbor Publishing | March 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-42-4
In this poetry chapbook, “the pandemic, the US election, gun violence, and the loss of feminist icons Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Helen Reddy forefront a series of collaborations in which the two poets face isolation together.”
Many Miles by Rosa Sophia Godshall
Small Harbor Publishing | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-46-2
In this poetry collection about the loss of her brother, Godshall “reflects on childhood dysfunction and her own spiritual identity in search of a way forward.”
Bilingual Bitch by Angelica Davila
Abode Press | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9900598-5-6
This poetry chapbook “explores the complexities of being Mexican yet growing up in the United States through multilingual expression, generational conflict, and longing for a homeland while existing in a limbo.”
Strange Flowers by Bryan Byrdlong
YesYes Books | March 27, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946303-02-8
Byrdlong’s debut collection “uses the idea of the zombie to offer an unbiased view of Black struggle, the zombie being a suit sometimes forced upon Black people and sometimes worn willingly.”
Daffodils in December, Poems from an Unexpected Life by Alice Bingham Gorman
Fleur-de-Lis Press | April 10, 2025
ISBN: 9798218628543
In this collection, Gorman’s “beautifully crafted poems take readers from the poet’s early childhood to her eighties.”
The Sound of Her Good Name by Candace R. Curran
Slate Roof Press | April 11, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89292-162-6
This poetry collection contains “truth telling, piercing perceptions of human behavior, and fierce momentum.”
Portable City by Karen Kovacik
Hanging Loose Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9913377-4-8
Kovacik’s collection “builds dialogue between image and narrative, between the tangible and the intangible, and between the world at large and its most attentive observers.”
This Natal House by J. L. Conrad
Harbor Editions | April 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-49-3
In this chapbook, “the story of children coming into being is also the narrative of a mother’s disintegration, as pregnancy sets off ongoing experiences of hypermobility and chronic pain.”
Don’t Hide the Madness by Nhã Thuyên
Translated from the Vietnamese by Kaitlin Rees
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604279
This poetry collection “takes seriously the question of how to keep speaking, how to endure in language when it has been and continues to be drained of meaning.”
Diary of a Proletarian Seamstress by Victoria Guerrero-Peirano
Translated from the Spanish by Anastatia Spicer and Honora Spicer
Cardboard House Press | May 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945720-36-9
In this bilingual “book of threads,” contemporary Peruvian poet Guerrero-Peirano “pierces intergenerational silences with erupting screams.”
Tracing Bodies by Virginia Watts
Old Scratch Press | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957224-59-6
These poems “pulse with the ghosts of the past—childhood shadows, family echoes, and the quiet, enduring presence of the natural world.”
Everything Is by Miguel Eichelberger
Poetose | May 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1646723614
Eichelberger’s poetry chapbook “pulls indirectly from biology, anthropology, psychology, and experience on the topic of grief and death.”
Putting the Pieces Together by Sharon Whitehill
Fernwood Press | June 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-161-6
According to Carol Drummond, “readers will find a resonant exploration of sorrow, renewal, and rejuvenation that invites them to reflect on the intricate pieces of their own lives” in this collection.
Jonah’s Map of the Whale and Other Poems by Anthony Doyle
Old Scratch Press | June 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957224-54-1
In this poetry collection, “sea-born metaphors shimmer with heartbreak, absurdity, and revelation across the tide pools of memory and myth.”
We Are Not Where We Are by Matt Donovan and Jenny George
Bull City Press | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949344-59-2
In this chapbook, Donovan and George “perform a chapter-by-chapter erasure of Walden, challenging its deeply flawed beliefs about individualism, the natural world, and relationships between people and the land.”
Small Harbor Publishing | June 12, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-48-6
In this collection of hybrid poetry, Jeong explores “grief, music, religion, and the tradition of elegiac writing.”
To Maggie Wherever You’ve Gone by Christine Andersen
Choeofpleirn Press | June 20, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9991034-0-6
In this poetry chapbook, Andersen “takes the reader on a journey to explore what happened to Maggie—why she gave up—and reflects on how we all might reach a breaking point.”
Standing Lonely in the Alley by Ken Tomaro
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | June 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-966075-01-1
According to Robert Allen, this poetry collection is a “bitter tour de force of grief and disappointment, with humor guiding the poems throughout the chapbook.”
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | July 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-966075-12-7
This poetry chapbook “shows us the bad apples and the rotted pears offered to us daily and urges us to beware as it reminds us of the old saying, ‘we are what we eat.’”
Glossogenesis by Cynthia White
Sundress Publications | July 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951979-78-2
In this poetry collection, White “reminds us of the power of language—one of our oldest systems—while reflecting on her most impactful relationships.”
2.5 Patients Per Hour by Carlin Corsino
Fallen Tree Press | July 9, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9860861-5-6
According to Stacy R. Nigliazzo, this poetry collection illustrates that “the emergency room is a wound and a remedy, a wasteland and a river.”
Urban Enigmas by Patrick ten Brink
Dipity Press | July 12, 2025
This poetry collection “looks at Brussels through the lenses of the portraits of people one glimpses and wonders about but rarely meets, the coded messages of things left in the streets, and the found meanings of things lost.”
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | July 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1966075080
Hope’s poetry chapbook “bites into quiet slivers of truth of life, and unearths beauty found in sticky shadows, deep below the surface.”
Periodic Elements by Georgia San Li
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | August 19, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-966075-09-7
“With no set form,” the poems in this chapbook “shift from fragments of modern life, to the satirical, and the ethereal.”
Landscapes and Observations by Michael Ratcliffe
Fallen Tree Press | September 2, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9860861-6-3
This poetry chapbook “brings the geographer’s eye for landscape observation together with his interests in spirituality, philosophy, and the ordinary things that make us human.”
Sundress Publications | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951979-85-0
This e-chapbook “indulges in themes of intergenerational trauma, recent tragedies in Eastern European wars, and love’s stubborn persistence despite it all.”
God-Damned Eden by James Daniels
Bull City Press | September 30, 2025
ISSN: 1932-6149
This poetry chapbook depicts its setting, Selma, as a “community that, despite its pain, holds a depth of spirit that deserves love and care, a place where redemption is sought through the resilience of its people.”
A Field Guide to North American Trees by Garrett Ashley
Good Printed Things | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9798992199338
Each poem in this chapbook is named after a tree, “forming a rich landscape where roots, rings, and branches become a way of understanding human connection, transformation, and renewal.”
Sacred & Perishable by Carissa Natalia Baconguis
Nine Syllables Press | October 7, 2025
This debut poetry chapbook “follows friends Dian, a medical student, and Carlos, a shapeshifter as they challenge concepts of time, self, and the other.”
Give Me a Holler by Chelsie Blair Nunn
Tofu Ink Arts Press | October 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-958661-22-2
This chapbook is a “poetic memoir set in the backroads of East Tennessee where wild packs of dogs, waterfalls, and the sweetest snakes await at every turn.”
Jombii Jamborii by Joan Cambridge-Mayfield and Jeremy Jacob Peretz
Translated from the Creolese by Joan Cambridge-Mayfield and Jeremy Jacob Peretz
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-46-0
The poems in this chapbook “cavort together back and forth in both Creolese and English, mirroring multigenerational movement and song bridging worlds of ancestors, young, old, and those yet to be born or remembered.”
Dear Enheduanna, by Erin Honeycutt
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
According to LA Warman, this poetry chapbook is an “erotic romp through language and lesbian history.”
These Aren’t My Woods Anymore by Soon Jones
Poetose | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64672-365-2
Jones’s debut collection “captures the experience of living as a mixed-race, queer, Asian American from the rural South.”
Red Lip Peril by Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod
Translated from the Spanish by Judah Rubin
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-47-7
This new translation “brings Peruvian poet Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas’s searing, corporeal, political poems of the 1970s and 1980s into English for the first time.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
Consisting of poems “about time and discovery/re-discovery,” this collection “comes from a place of urgency that emerges from a sustained and desperate need to organize the chaos of experience through language.”
Anthem of Evaporated Tears / El deber del pan by Xavier Valcárcel de Jesús
Translated from the Spanish by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Cardboard House Press | November 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945720-39-0
This poetry collection inspired by Virgil’s Aenid “turns to face the violence at the heart of domesticity and gender, which is reconfigured by the poetic voice and his mother.”
Landguage/Mirror Me by Marina Blitshteyn
Fonograf Editions | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-60-4
According to Wendy Xu, Blitshteyn “writes the bent rhymes of class, country, migration, inheritance, and belonging into a crackling irresistible music, not a placating melody but a sounding that echoes across names and generations.”
Finishing Line Press | December 22, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89990-276-5
According to Nabila Lovelace, Prakash’s collection “puts memory under a microscope, equally asking how one lives with the map memory makes of our lives, forgetting’s barren land, and time’s oscillating hand.”
Poetry Collections
Stones Are the First to Rise by David Giannini
Dos Madres Press | January 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962847-16-2
According to Katie Lehman, Giannini is a “true poet-seer, a wise explorer who has traveled wooded landscapes before, moving stealthily through narrow paths to this world’s “brilliant blinking chaos.”
Learning to Drown by SM Stubbs
Gunpowder Press | January 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957062-19-8
According to Vandana Khanna, the poems in this collection “shine an incandescent and intimate light upon memory, childhood, and survival in the aftermath of trauma.”
She Is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
Flood Editions | January 6, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9857874-5-0
This novel-in-verse “follows the contours of an Australian landscape and dreamscape, accompanied by magpie and owl, sun and moon, as well as a daughter named Blessing.”
Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue by Merrill Gilfillan
Flood Editions | January 6, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9857874-6-7
Gilfillan’s new poetry collection “draws from more than a dozen volumes since his first book appeared in 1970, concluding with three short ‘poetic diaries’ in the tradition of Japanese haibun.”
Winter of Worship by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Copper Canyon Press | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-55659-693-3
Candrilli’s fourth poetry collection is a “patchwork of the pastoral and the ‘litter swirled around us’—a pandemic, global warming, a hometown hit by storms of fentanyl and Oxycontin scripts.”
When I Say the Bones, I Mean the Bones by Amanda Hawkins
Wandering Aengus Press | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-218-35040-6
According to Jennifer Chang, the poems in this collection “exude tenderness and the passionate hope that our belief systems need not be bound by institutions or orthodoxies but by witness, love, and a shared sense of possibility.”
Notes Scattered and Lost by Amelia Rosselli
Translated from the Italian by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard
Entre Ríos Books | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-960045-77-8
This collection of twentieth-century poet Rosselli’s notes contains “bursts of inspiration that she enjoyed writing out by hand on tracing paper, along with passages cut from longer work she found unsatisfactory.”
A Catalogue of Risk by Alisha Mascarenhas
Wendy’s Subway | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9909878-1-4
This bilingual debut poetry collection is a “volte-face of the neoliberal market economy’s construction of isolated, individual safety.”
Solo Concert by Diana Senechal
Serving House Books | January 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1947175631
According to Rick Moody, Senechal is a “great and original poet, with one eye on tradition and one astringent, compassionate eye on what really is—here in the shadowy now.”
The Star-Spangled Brand by Marcelo Morales
Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra
Veliz Books | January 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949776-19-5
According to Don Mee Choi, Morales’s “groundbreaking prose poetry unfolds like film, from his double nation-state consciousness—Cuba and the US.”
The Mansion: Liberated Zones Inside the Controlled Inner City by Dee Allen
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 979-8989834594
This poetry collection “covers Allen’s first 5 years surviving homelessness in San Francisco by squatting numerous buildings, whether long-abandoned or new ones under construction.”
Prayers to a Small Stone by Jo Brachman
Cider Press Review | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-930781-66-5
According to Katie Chaple, the poems in this collection “traverse the veil, whether it be through a woman metamorphosing into a doe, or the speaker communing with the dead or conjuring the ancient past.”
The Parachutist by Jose Hernandez Diaz
Sundress Publications | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1951979720
Diaz’s collection “invites readers to reconsider the boundaries of reality while exploring the intersections of imagination, culture, and personal history.”
Red Hen Press | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-263-3
The poems in this collection “run through the four phases of Limerence, the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person: Infatuation, Crystallization, Deterioration, and Ecstatic Release.”
Many Poems by Roberta Iannamico
Translated from the Spanish by Alexis Almeida
The Song Cave | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 979-8987828885
In Iannamico’s collection, “objects acquire voices, seasons move simultaneously across rural landscapes, and a mother and daughter share a unique vision of the past and present.”
pleasureis amiracle by Bianca Rae Messinger
Nightboat Books | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-164362-241-5
Messinger’s new collection is a “book of poems written out of a depressive episode, in which a devotional approach to music and desire reestablishes communication between the poet’s body and the world.”
The Ocean in the Next Room by Sarah V. Schweig
Milkweed Editions | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-57131-563-2
The poems in this collection “guide us to look past branding, content-creation, and relentless jargon to find meaning in those layers of the world that operate without human intervention.”
The Choreic Period by Latif Askia Ba
Milkweed Editions | January 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63955-118-7
This book is “a ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy.”
Rome | Pedestrians Beware by Rafael Alberti
Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Geist & Giuseppe Leporace
Swan Isle Press | January 22, 2025
In Alberti’s collection set in Rome, “the blending of classical tradition with post-modern echoes the darkness and luminosity that exist within the poems, tinged with longing, nostalgia, love, as well as hope.”
Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Copper Canyon Press | January 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-55659-710-7
The poems in this collection are “finely honed melodies of survival—shaped with both humor and anger, force and conviction.”
Resembling A Wild Animal by Clara Bush Vadala
ELJ Editions | January 31, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-94200-481-3
The poems in this collection “delve into the wildness of motherhood, animal personas, and the weird streaks of feral that can be found in everyday life.”
Phantom Number by Spring Ulmer
Tupelo Press | February 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-17-6
According to Vievee Francis, this poetry collection is a “courageous exploration of motherhood, culture and grief, within worlds charged by both beauty and inequity.”
All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell
CavanKerry Press | February 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-08-6
The poems in this debut collection “push back against the rosy picture society paints of motherhood and instead lay bare the raw, neglected parts: the rage, the sorrow, the confusion, the ambivalence, the tentative joy.”
The Flight from Meaning by Stephen Haven
Slant Books | February 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63982-184-6
The poems in this collection “have been shaped by—and serve as responses to—an American predilection for violence, spectacle, and distraction—the ways they flatten and diminish our experience of the world.”
The Horse And The Girl by Madeleine F. White
Sea Crow Press | February 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961864-18-4
In this poetry collection, White “invites us to look beyond the road she rides on and beyond the page she writes, into the beating heart of our natural world and the relationships it contains, including that with herself.”
Contradictions from an Uncertain Silence by Emmett Wheatfall
Fernwood Press | February 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-152-4
According to Bob Horenstein, Wheatfall “transforms his masterful poetry into a profound commentary on the social and political existential ills plaguing America.”
It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You by Daniel Meltz
Wandering Aengus Press | February 14, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-218-51324-5
According to Jeffrey Harrison, this debut poetry collection follows the “speaker’s circuitous search for the things that give meaningful connection to a life, which end up including kindness, friendship, love, and poetry itself.”
Accidental Hope by Diana Kurniawan
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | February 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957483-29-0
According to Marissa Forbes, this poetry collection “sheds light on cultural/generational trauma that can affect anyone, but more importantly it showcases how it doesn’t have to define your inner soul.”
I Would Define the Sun by Stephanie Niu
Vanderbilt University Literary Prize | February 18, 2025
ISBN: 9780826507716
The duplexes, sestinas, and couplets in Niu’s collection “declare the impossibility of defining something as immense as the sun while striving toward that impossible act.”
For now I am sitting here growing transparent by Yau Ching
Translated from the Chinese by Chenxin Jiang
Zephyr Press | February 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938890-34-5
This bilingual debut collection includes “astute political poems, understated love poems, urban anti-eclogues, and prose poems.”
Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung
Translated from the Korean by Stine An
Zephyr Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781938890291
This English-language debut “chronicles contemporary life in a minor key where loneliness and existential ghosts thread the pieces.”
Small Harbor Publishing | February 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-40-0
According to Meghan Sterling, the poems in Hockaday’s collection “contain the miraculous, the hideous, the joyful, and the grotesque as she recounts her pregnancy while reflecting on both her brother’s drug addiction and her father’s physical decline and passing.”
The Singing River by Benjamin Morris
Belle Point Press | February 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960215-33-8
This poetry collection centered on the Mississippi Gulf Coast “asks what can be saved in a place of shifting landscapes and ancient memory.”
Acre Books | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946724-87-8
This debut poetry collection “examines queerness, mental illness, and transgender identity through the lens of thrillers and B movies.”
Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus by Jack Saebyok Jung
Black Square Editions | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 979–8–986037–01–1
This poetry collection is a “five-part poetic journey that moves from intimate personal memory to expansive reflections on culture, war, politics, and myth.”
When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson
African Poetry Book Fund | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4962-4135-1
In this collection, “lyrical, playful, and moving poems urge us to look for the truth and beauty hidden in our daily lives, singing of Waberi’s own enduring love for our endangered planet.”
Tupelo Press | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-16-9
This book length essay-in-verse is “inspired by mycelia, the fungal networks thriving beneath us, exploring how the processes of grief nourish new life.”
For the Loneliness of Walking Out by Sheila Black
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-47-2
According to Melissa Kwasny, this poetry collection is a “book sweetened with exquisite images of what the poet loves in this life and full of the longing, if not bitterness, that comes with inevitable loss—lost childhoods, lost neighborhoods, lost romance, lost youth.”
Trash Witch by Martha McCollough
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-46-5
According to Jody (Pamela) Stewart, this poetry collection “with its layered investigation of both old and upcoming selves, its testing of hearts and mind, is a vibrant layering of the ‘speaker’s’ past (and future?) debris.”
You Are Here to Break Apart by Meghan Sterling
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-45-8
According to Betsy Sholl, the poems in this collection are “one part elegy, one part excavation, and a third part exorcism, as she recalls childhood summers in rural Tennessee, dense with vegetation and heat, cattle, corn, and family secrets.”
Beyond the Watershed by Nadia Alexis
CavanKerry Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-09-3
This collection of poetry and photography “explores the various experiences of a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother.”
Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Red Hen Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-230-5
In this poetry collection, Deming “extends her exploration of the meanings of nature into the tensions of our political and ecological moment.”
Translated from the Spanish by James Nolan
Fonograf Editions | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8987589052
According to Robert Fernandez, Nolan’s “translations of Gil de Biedma offer a timeless source of encouragement for all who endure repression and tyranny.”
If I Had Said Beauty by Tami Haaland
Lost Horse Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9890965-8-9
This poetry collection “explores the possible narratives and distant origins of what lies behind a sense of self—including recent and ancient DNA, recessive and dominant traits, mitochondrial underpinnings, and an intricate microbiome.”
Still My Father’s Son by Nora Hikari
Sundress Publications | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1951979706
Hikari’s poetry collection “weaves a complex and delicate tale of love, religious trauma, queerness, and self/selves.”
Fragmentation and Volta by Paul Ilechko
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1966075004
In this poetry collection, “the hallucinatory prose fragments and the sonnets are interwoven, braided together to form an intricate whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Bending Light with Bare Hands by David B. Prather
Fernwood Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-155-5
This collection of poems is a “direct response to Covid lockdown and all the insecurities and frustrations that accompanied compulsory isolation.”
Hollywood Cemetery by David Trinidad
Green Linden Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-06-4
According to James Allen Hall, this poetry collection is “dishy and soapy—any movie buff’s must-have—but beyond that, Trinidad also considers themes of death and memory.”
Graywolf Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-326-1
This poetry collection explores “the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities, the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of the war in Vietnam, the lives of refugees afterward, and the postmemory carried by their descendants.”
String Theory / Teoría de cuerdas by Karen Villeda
Translated from the Spanish by NAFTA
Cardboard House Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945720-34-5
According to Erín Moure, this autobiographical poem “disentangles the present-absence of a woman, the sister of a parent, a life extinguished before Villeda was able to speak and understand.”
Big Money Porno Mommy by Catherine Weiss
Game Over Books | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915566-0-6
This poetry collection “explores the author’s complex relationship to sex and power from childhood through adulthood, and how this tenuous balance relates to her decision to not become a mother.”
Flood Editions | March 5, 2025
ISBN: 979-8985787474
According to Publishers Weekly, this reprinted book-length poem “begins and ends with the US space program, reaches back to ancient Egypt and the myth of Eden, and stops to acknowledge the author’s own native Kansas.”
Green Linden Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-05-7
In this poetry collection, Jones “has moved increasingly from the lyric grounded in the everyday to a kind of magical realism where he sees in daily life transformations all around, as if a curtain has parted or he has touched the hem of some great mystery.”
Cold Thief Place by Esther Lin
Alice James Books | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949944-70-9
According to Javier Zamora, Lin’s debut poetry collection is “not only a timeless and necessary addition to immigrant literature around the world, but an automatic induction into the American canon.”
Four Days in Algeria by Clarence Major
Red Hen Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-178-0
In this collection, Major depicts “adventurous encounters with ordinary life rendered through poems of dazzling agility and fearless bluntness.”
At the Window, Silence by Kenneth Pobo
Fernwood Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-156-2
This poetry collection is “divided into two sections, one that focuses on the interior world, life in a house or memories of life in various places, and one that focuses on the exterior world, particularly that of the garden.”
Still Water Carving Light by Peggy Shumaker
Red Hen Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-168-1
In this poetry collection, “intimate snapshots of everyday life depict the quiet resilience of those left behind, inviting readers who have experienced loss to connect deeply with their own emotions.”
Bone Valley Hymnal by Taylor Franson-Thiel
ELJ Editions | March 14, 2025
Inspired by the landscape of Utah, the poems in this collection “present compelling connections between science, gender, faith, and myth-making.”
Concerning the Angels by Rafael Alberti
Translated from the Spanish by John Murillo
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-42-7
In this translation of Spanish poems first published in 1929, Murillo “has given new life to what many consider Alberti’s magnum opus and delivered our marching orders for the resistance the future will require.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-26-7
This poetry collection “transcribes a true emergency in the poet’s direct sight—wilderness and civilization smoldering alike in the California wildfires.”
Red Wilderness by Aaron Coleman
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-24-3
Coleman’s poetry 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.”
Willow Hammer by Patrick Donnelly
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-30-4
Donnelly’s poetry collection is a “sequence of poems that fans out kaleidoscopically upon learning, twenty years afterward, that his stepfather assaulted his sister.”
No Small Thing by Gabriel Fried
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-34-2
According to Patrick Phillips, this poetry collection is “filled with wry wit, and formal dexterity, and grit, as Gabriel Fried moves from the joys and losses of mid-life, to the underworld of childhood, and back again.”
After the Operation by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-40-3
Gray’s poetry collection “reports from the No Man’s Land she wandered following eight hours of surgery to remove a brain tumor.”
One More World Like This World by Carlie Hoffman
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-28-1
This poetry collection is a “lyrical study of contemporary life—its lines echo amidst the imbalanced interdependence of globalization, in the wake of third-wave feminism, and from the active collapse of our American empire.”
Reality Checkmate by Daniel Ruiz
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-38-0
According to Tomás Q. Morín, Ruiz “tackles reality itself, nimbly assembling and reassembling what we think we know in order to move us toward a greater, more profound feeling” in this poetry collection.
The Fire Passage by Lisa Wells
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-36-6
This book-length poem “recontextualizes biblically scaled plagues as the entropic catastrophes of our late-stage capitalist society.”
A Magnificent Loneliness by Allison Benis White
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-22-9
The poems in this collection “represent White’s attempts to comprehend the individual suffering of being alive, and to metabolize the grief of women’s epidemic disappearance, literal and spiritual, through sickness and despair.”
Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems by C. Dale Young
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-32-8
The poems in this collection “explore the author’s simultaneous embrace of mortality’s richness and resignation to death’s inevitable decay.”
Fonograf Editions | March 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-48-2
In this poetry collection traversing European cities, Almallah “encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies.”
Variations in Blue by Adela Najarro
Red Hen Press | March 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-274-9
The poems in this collection “cycle through the traumatic residue of dysfunctional relationships, the complexities of Latinx representation through a series of ekphrastic poems, and reimagine Nicaragua as a homeland set in a volcanic landscape.”
Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems by Jonathan Aaron
Carnegie Mellon University Press | March 21, 2025
ISBN:978-0-88748-713-2
According to Rosanna Warren, the poems in this collection “both show and recount how the ordinary can slip at any moment into the unsteady worlds of legend and dream.”
Goat-Footed Gods by Kathleen Driskell
Carnegie Mellon University Press | March 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-88748-708-8
In this poetry collection, Driskell “seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of the infamous Goatman of Pope Lick, identified by The Washington Post as one of the deadliest cryptids in America.”
Carnegie Mellon University Press | March 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-88748-709-5
This poetry collection is “anchored in personal and collective grief, remembrance, and commemoration, journeying through the loss of a mother in a series of elegies, fugues, and lamentations that draw from the Church’s canonical hours of prayer as collected in a breviary.”
Angel Sharpening Its Beak by Michael McGriff
Carnegie Mellon University Press | March 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-88748-710-1
This poetry collection “searches for meaning at the intersection of surrealism, place, and poverty in rural America.”
For Now, We Have Been Spared by Gary Fincke
Slant Books | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63982-193-8
The poems in this collection “reflect the uncertainty of living through a pandemic—not only in terms of the immediate threats to the body, but also the tectonic shifts in how we perceive the nature of existence itself.”
Dzanc Books | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938603-26-6
In this poetry collection, Kass “intertwines fiction with reality as he delves into the origins of the Marvel superheroes, explores how the Marvel saga informed his own worldview, and implores us all to continue to believe in the forces of good.”
Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems by Nezahualcóyotl
Translated from the Nahuatl by Ilan Stavans
Restless Books | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63206-386-1
This collection of fifteenth-century poetry from the famed Aztec ruler is “brimming with anguish and longing” and depicts a “young warrior and his journey from exile to historical legend.”
Utopians In Love by Bob Sykora
Game Over Books | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915566-5-1
The poems in this collection “hope to ask what we actually can learn from the utopian dreams and failures of the past as we attempt to build a better world in the present.”
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 26, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-56-4
According to Le Hinton, this poetry collection is an “astonishing offering to the world,” and “each poem explores grief in its countless incarnations.”
Between Latitudes by Michelle Latvala
Green Writers Press | March 26, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904801-8-6
This debut poetry collection is “rooted in both the practice of forging a life in the boreal forest of Alaska and finding footing in contemporary California.”
The Shepherd’s Hour by Rikki Santer 
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 26, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-53-3
This poetry collection “showcases Santer’s poetic virtuosity as it explores her cultural inheritance as a Jewish woman raised in the mid 20th century in America’s heartland.”
self-portrait as vanishing act by Leslie Ullman
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 26, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-55-7
According to Nance Van Winckel, in this poetry collection “pieces of the self—as museum relics, thrift store objects, even recurring dreams—assemble and reassemble themselves.”
How We Enter the Palace by Michelle Blake
Green Writers Press | March 27, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9891784-7-6
This poetry collection includes “persona poems in the voices of Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Helen Keller, and other characters who have shown up along the way.”
Hills Full of Holes by Dan Alter
Fernwood Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-157-9
According to Judy Halebsky, this poetry collection “examines the land as an extension of our physical selves, our journey through physical space and also excavating the layers of history, conquest, and urban development.”
The Eating Knife by Ayelet Amittay
Fernwood Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-154-8
This debut poetry collection is an “exploration of personal and intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Akedah, the story of the sacrifice of Isaac.”
Second Nature by Chaun Ballard
BOA Editions | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145529
This debut collection “weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban.”
The Last Beast We Revel In by Noah Davis
CavanKerry Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-10-9
The poems in this collection “balance revery, mourning, lust, and love while wading the rivers and meandering through the deep hollows of Appalachia’s enduring landscape.”
What to Wear Out by Jen DeGregorio
Get Fresh Books Publishing | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798218545635
According to Tina Chang, this poetry collection is a “fiercely perceptive journey through the complexities of girlhood and womanhood, oftentimes devastating in its exploration of personal and societal grief.”
Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems 1984-2024 by Gregory Djanikian
Green Writers Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904801-5-5
According to Mark Halliday, Djanikian’s “generously readable poems help us feel that life is livable, full of ache but also of possibility.”
Applause for a Cloud by Sayumi Kamakura
Translated from the Japanese by James Shea
Black Ocean | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1939568-99-1
In this poetry collection, Kamakura “transforms the haiku into a contemporary vehicle for exploring life’s most intimate moments and vast mysteries.”
Get Fresh Books Publishing | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798218522544
The poems in this collection “reflect on the Passaic, an 80-mile long river coursing through prime New Jersey real estate in counties that run the gamut from affluence to working class.”
Tupelo Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-21-3
According to Annie-B Parson, “the sounds in her dreams, her dailiness, and the wrath of the gods combine in a poetic logic that is both irrefutable and moving” in Paty’s poetry collection.
Graywolf Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-330-8
According to Skylar Miklus, in this poetry collection “the scenery of Colorado comes alive on the page: chickadees sing, honeybees flit, lilies blossom.”
Daughter Days by Julia Wendell
Unsolicited Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-34-5
In this collection spanning Wendell’s career, “poems selected from her previous six books are combined with newer poems, as well as excerpts from her memoirs, Finding My Distance and Come to the X.”
Maiden Mother Crone by Madeleine F White
Sea Crow Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1961864245
“Taking its cues from the older, more matriarchal nature of Celtic and Nordic traditions,” this poetry collection “offers magic and mysticism, abuse and reconciliation, power and perception and faith and feminism.”
Get Fresh Books Publishing | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798218623302
This debut poetry collection “deals with the loss of Wilson’s father in a tragic car accident as a child, the sexual abuse he survived as a young teenager from his step-father, and how these events have affected his romantic relationships with men as a Black, gay man.”
Anything and Its Shadow by Lucie McKee
Green Writers Press | April 3, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904801-9-3
In this poetry collection, McKee “writes from a place of patience and continual curiosity, both for her own presence in the world and for the nuances of the vastness that lies beyond her intimate awareness.”
No One Knows Us There by Jessica Bebenek
Book*hug Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669399
According to Liz Howard, Bebenek “lays bare death processes, grief, and resilience with a documentarian’s eye” in this poetry collection.
Sundress Publications | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1951979737
This debut poetry collection “takes readers on a journey of exploration through the speaker’s experience and reflection as an immigrant from Taiwan in Canada.”
The Worried Well by Anthony Immergluck
Autumn House Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781637681039
This book of poetry is a “tragicomic collection that explores the intersection of anxiety and safety in a chaotic world.”
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers by Keetje Kuipers
BOA Editions | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145451
In this collection, “astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with the fetishization of freedom and the terror of desire.”
A Prayer of Six Wings by Owen Lewis
Dos Madres Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962847-19-3
According to Alicia Ostriker, this poetry collection is an “extraordinary book, not for the ideological but for the intellectually and emotionally engaged, and for lovers of poetry and truth.”
Python with a Dog Inside It by Max McDonough
Black Lawrence Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781625571755
This poetry collection set in southern New Jersey “traces the tangled story of two gay brothers as they endeavor to survive their mother’s erratic and escalating violence.”
Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
Red Hen Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781636282084
These poems grapple with “a dark period of American history, ‘The Reign of Terror,’ when outsiders murdered individual members of the Osage for their oil headrights.”
Gathering the Pieces of Day by LeeAnn Pickrell
Unsolicited Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-38-3
This book is a “collection of 52 poems, one for each week of the year,” acting as a “reminder to pay attention to each cup of coffee, each encounter, each song, each bite of food, each moment of the day.”
Baobab Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-936097-56-2
According to Roseanna Alice Boswell, the poems in this collection “move across time and space as the speaker explores and interrogates identity, sexuality, family history, and intergenerational trauma.”
Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits by Kiyoko Reidy
Terrapin Books | April 11, 2025
ISBN: 9781947896819
According to Carlina Duan, the poems in this collection “breathe portals into familial care, inherited violence, intergenerational loss, and the natural landscapes within and around us.”
When the Horses by Mary Helen Callier
Alice James Books | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1949944716
According to Literary Hub, Callier’s “crisp marriage of sentence and line sings across the psychic landscapes of childhood and into elements of desire made slant.”
supreme night by Keith Donnell Jr.
Black Lawrence Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781625571571
In this poetry collection, “the troubles of double consciousness and anti-Black violence recede into the temporary haven of night.”
Secular Audacity by Joy Gaines-Friedler
Mayapple Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-952781-26-1
This poetry collection “looks at life through a secular—albeit Jewish—lens, recognizing, even celebrating mystery, awe, joy, humor, justice and injustice without assigning divine authority.”
Airlie Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950404-16-2
This debut poetry collection “weaves in and out of Rome, taken as a figure for empire, ruin, and the seductions of both.”
jump the gun by Jennie Malboeuf
BOA Editions | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145413
The poems in this collection “uproot the hidden recesses of life, the stages and struggles of womanhood, and our continual fight against violence, both internal and external, in the US today.”
The Equestrian Turtle and Other Poems / La tortuga ecuestre y otros poemas by César Moro
Translated from the Spanish by Leslie Bary and Esteban Quispe
Cardboard House Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945720-35-2
Originally published in Lima in 1957, this poetry collection is an “oblique chronicle of the poet’s relationship with the Mexican army officer Antonio Acosta.”
Red Hen Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781636281728
These poems “investigate what unites us—how the personal is political and the political is personal—attempting to change our perceptions to heal our families, friendships, and country of incivility and villainization by practicing greater compassion.”
Sky Responds to Our Holler by Zenaida Peterson
Game Over Books | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915566-6-8
According to Desireé Dallagiacomo, this poetry collection “sings in the spectacular and achy home where hope and despair meet, page after page is a devotion that eclipses sorrow but refuses to forget it.”
Soiled with Earth, Drunk on Air by Sibila Petlevski
Translated from the Croatian by Sibila Petlevski
Sandorf Passage | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9789533515274
The poems in this collection “predicted the fear and isolation of the global pandemic lockdown, while also offering up a strategy to overcome these hardships through understanding people as a part of nature.”
Graywolf Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-334-6
According to Chris Kraus, this poetry collection “explores the contours of something essential, diving deep into pain and complexity and describing them in the most factual way.”
Anything You Want by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Wet Cement Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9918692-1-8
According to John Ninso High, the poems in this collection “wander through the realms of birth and death, loss and abundance, radical acceptance and on further through the smallest miraculous details of tenderness for how we live with and help one another.”
What Is Given by Brit Washburn
Wet Cement Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9883840-9-0
According to Sebastian Matthews, this poetry collection is “part daybook on living a meaningful life, part phenomenological treatise,” and “a field guide to the interior.”
Re: Wild Her by Shannon Webb-Campbell
Book*hug Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669337
In this poetry collection “artistry and nature are intertwined, speaking to the sensual musings of lovers in Paris, driftwood and death cycles, and the rise of wild swimming and cold dipping.”
Translated from the Italian by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard
World Poetry | April 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-29-1
This collection by one of Italy’s significant post-war writers “asks how poetry can document lived experience while dialoguing with the Petrarchan sonnet tradition.”
Fearless Now & Nameless by Jon Davis
Grid Books | April 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781946830319
In this poetry collection, Davis “directs his keen eye toward the ironies on which this life so often depends—the failures of language, the violence of nature, the indifference of death.”
Translating Blue by Sherre Vernon
Poetose | April 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64672-363-8
This poetry collection explores “language, identity, and love, and considers how even in a lifetime of challenge and heartbreak one can find something beautiful in this life.”
Black Ocean | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1965154-03-8
“Through interweaving prose and verse,” this collection “resurrects two figures from myth: Cardea, goddess of hinges, and Echo, the nymph transformed into reflective sound.”
Fortuna Redux by Faith Ellington
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1966075066
This poetry collection, “named after the Roman goddess invoked by travelers in need of safe passage during a long journey, explores concepts of home, violence, and the body.”
Apparent Breviary by Gastón Fernández
Translated from the Spanish by KM Cascia
World Poetry | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-34-5
These 100 poems by the twentieth-century Peruvian writer are “notable as much for their silences as what they say, their use of negative space as a counterweight to speech, and the hallucinatory effect of their sequence.”
Close Escapes by Stephen Kuusisto
Copper Canyon Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9781556596896
In Kuusisto’s third poetry collection, as he “moves forward through meditations on beauty, ‘dark joy,’ loss, aging, and the afterlife, he also reaches back, talking to writers, musicians, and thinkers of the past—Orwell, Marvin Bell, Salvatore Quasimodo.”
dormilona by Connie Mae Oliver
Burrow Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9781941681343
This collection is a “bilingual book of poetry exploring dream states, distance, and the rituals of sleep.”
night myths • • before the body by Abi Pollokoff
Red Hen Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9781636281971
This debut poetry collection “illuminates the dichotomies contemporary women grapple with every day: identity and expectation, self-preservation and doubt, freedom and entrapment, wildness and cultivation.”
Love and Resistance by Nizar Qabbani
Translated from the Arabic by Rana Bitar
Fernwood Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-158-6
The poems in this collection have been “selected for their breadth of representation, their influence in the Arab world, and their poetic prowess.”
Unsolicited Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-33-8
These poems “weave together the personal, political, and global, revealing the hidden and overlooked amid the ordinary.”
Wild Cucumber: New and Selected Poems by Ann Spiers
Empty Bowl Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9798991740036
These poems “explore the islands, beaches, and volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest; the canyonlands of the Southwest; and visits to Mexico and Thailand.”
Rodeo by Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Autumn House Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9781637681022
In this collection, Wilkinson “carries her readers through sorrow and confusion, reckoning with seismic losses such as a stillborn son and strained relationships, alongside more abstract and existential pains.”
Apotheosis of Music by Witold Wirpsza
Translated from the Polish by Frank L. Vigoda
World Poetry | April 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-31-4
“Reveling in spoof, buffoonery, the grotesque, paradox, hyperbole, and nonsense,” this collection of poems “employs every poetic means to undermine our propensity to take what is being said at face value.”
Wake Forest University Press | April 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-943667-07-9
In this poetry collection, a “dramatically charged lyricism links environmental understanding with an emotive exploration of human experience and potential.”
Bone Flute: A Woman Speaks by Irene Adler
Paloma Press | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781734496529
This posthumously-released poetry collection “gives equal voice to the unspeakable sorrows and wonders of being alive.”
BOA Editions | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145475
In this poetry collection, alexandra “invites readers into a world bristling with family, memory, home, and inheritance—all in the wake of dislocation and fracture.”
Nightboat Books | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781643622736
This poetry collection is a “pulpy, mytho-poetic dispatch from an ‘anarchist jurisdiction’ that explores the liberatory possibilities of community and womanhood.”
Game Over Books | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781643622736
According to Isabelle Correa, this poetry collection is a “lamentation of loneliness and loss with a witty distrust of self-help culture.”
Seesaw by Ken Tomaro and Nolcha Fox
Prolific Pulse Press | April 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962374-43-9
This collection is “poetry at its most spontaneous and fun, a reminder that even in life’s heavier moments, there’s always room to laugh, twist the narrative, and dance on the edge of meaning.”
The Installation of Fear by Jon Curley
Marsh Hawk Press | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798987617700
Curley’s poetry collection is a “relentless, furious autopsy of our contemporary social and political landscape.”
From the Founding of the Country by Cristina Pérez Díaz
Winter Editions | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-959708-13-1
This debut poetry collection “tells a fragmentary narrative of two lovers—one languid and liquid, the other sharp as exclamation points—who are also two nations bound in a horrendous love.”
Translated from the Korean by Jein Han
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604354
According to Paige Aniyah Morris, the world of this collection “is indeed a haunted one, at turns dreamlike and nightmarish as each poem weighs the risks and rewards of being (not quite) human, of having a body (of sorts).”
Ghost in the Archive by Jennifer Loyd
Conduit Books & Ephemera | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9883272-4-0
According to Chet’la Sebree, this poetry collection is “a beautiful exploration of past and possibility through the life of Rachel Carson and a contemporary speaker who seeks her own truths.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946433954
The poems in footprints are “a space for accounts of worlds that have existed, for the rawness of the worlds we live in, and for worlds we can write into existence.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604361
In this poetry collection, Nissan “has made an almost shockingly compelling book out of a formal constraint as sharp and absurd as the limitations of living in these trivial, awful, genocidal, yearning times,” according to Hannah Black.
Other Side of Ocean by Xiaoqiu Qiu
Marsh Hawk Press | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798987617755
According to John Keene, Qiu “maps out a series of transnational and translingual geographical and psychic voyages that touch upon the cosmic” in this poetry collection.
Exercises 1950–1960 by Yannis Ritsos
Translated from the Greek by Spring Ulmer
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604422
According to Christopher Merrill, “what Yannis Ritsos wrote in the aftermath of his detention and torture during the Greek Civil War is exactly what we need to navigate our own fraught moment in history.”
The Hand of the Hand by Laura Vazquez
Translated from the French by Limited Connection Collective: Shira Abramovich & Lénaïg Cariou
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604453
The poetry in The Hand of the Hand “brings us to a future or an alternate universe in which earth, animal, and human intertwine—where stomachs have meadows, milk pours itself over trees, and flies wash the dead.”
Wickerwork by Christian Lehnert
Translated from the German by Richard Sieburth
Archipelago Books | May 5, 2025
ISBN: 9781962770248
This bilingual poetry collection “traffics in details that might have otherwise gone unnoticed: the far sides of fishes, red jellyfish fraying on a tide, the way a hazel tree learns from the falling of snow how to scatter her pollen.”
Intercede: Saints for Concerning Occasions by Jennifer Clark
Unsolicited Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-39-0
Clark’s fourth poetry collection “presents saints as surprisingly relatable figures—imperfect, flawed, and very much like us.”
Wave Books | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9798891060142
Fishman’s poetry collection is “a one-woman quest narrative in a kayak, written during the author’s ‘journey-in-place’ in Northeastern Ontario over a period of fourteen days in quarantine.”
Like Zeros, Like Pearls by Lola Haskins
Charlotte Lit Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960558-10-7
Readers “will find a wide range of insects, bees to beetles, mantises to ants, ladybugs to cicadas and fireflies to butterflies” in Haskins’s poetry collection.
Graywolf Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-339-1
Moore’s poems are “a collection of thoughtful meditations on hope at a moment when hope seems far-fetched.”
Winter Editions | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-959708-12-4
Riggs’s eighth poetry collection “pulls from the momentum of Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Bernadette Mayer’s Memory to create a survival manual for a Trump presidency and a family crisis.”
The Lost Nostalgias by Esteban Rodríguez
CavanKerry Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-11-6
According to Felicia Zamora, the narrator of these poems “seeks refuge in undoing youthful lamentations of wielding English as a weapon to reclaim his diasporic lineage and believe his father’s words.”
The Mirror of Simple Souls by Leah Flax Barber
Winter Editions | May 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-959708-14-8
In her debut poetry collection, Flax Barber “revives an actress figure of the commedia dell’arte to consider her own destiny as a soon-to-be historical subject.”
cells, fully differentiated by Kinsey Cantrell
Noemi Press | May 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-955992-59-6
This poetry collection is “an account of non-diagnosis, an experiment in mining memory and parsing trauma in an ultimately failed attempt to construct narrative.”
Translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Black Square Editions | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 9798986037028
According to Charlotte Mandell, Huynh’s poems “explore the intimacy of language: the book begins with the narrator having lost her voice, her language, as well as her connection to her own body.”
Where do you live? by Hanaa Ahmad Jabr and Jennifer Jean
Translated from the Arabic by Tamara Al-Attiya and Wadaq Qais
Arrowsmith Press | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904050-7-3
In this poetry collection, Jabr and Jean “speak to each other, and us, about the stories that nurture, and the damage caused by the fantasts of power.”
A Precise Chaos by Jo-Ann Mort
Arrowsmith Press | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904050-5-9
Mort’s poems “reflect her experiences as a trade union activist, a political organizer, and a peace activist in the Middle East.”
Coming Ashore by Thomas O’Grady
Arrowsmith Press | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915254-9-7
O’Grady’s poetry collection “continues his exploration of place, memory, and the transient and transcendent wonder of the everyday.”
I Hope This Helps by Samiya Bashir
Nightboat Books | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781643622729
Bashir’s genre-bending poetry collection “reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an artist, ‘a twinkle-textured disco-ball Jenga set’ constrained and shaped by the limits of our reality.”
Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man by Jose Hernandez Diaz
Red Hen Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781636282404
This poetry collection “seeks to celebrate the Mexican American experience while also exploring how surrealism and absurdism can lead to wondrous discoveries about the self, community, and the imagination.”
How To Tie & Untie Mist by Daniel Hales
Frayed Edge Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781642510638
The third section of this collection “deconstructs selected poems in the previous two sections through partial erasures: new skeletal poems emerge from the mist to contradict the original poems—or to untie their knots, revealing their essence.”
[gamerover] by Giancarlo Huapaya
Translated from the Spanish by Ryan Greene
Phoneme | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781646053759
Huapaya’s collection charts “the history of geography through the historic movement of its residents’ bodies and complicated habits.”
Under the Tented Skin by C. Kubasta
Unsolicited Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-79-6
Kubasta’s poems “explore the experiences of women and girls through folkloric history, discursive memory, and spectacle.”
Mothersalt by Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Alice James Books | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781949944723
According to Jenny Xie, this poetry collection reveals “to us how maternal caretaking is a locus of astonishing collisions: between profound intimacies and estrangements, mergings and fracturings, awakenings and bewilderments, violences, and heady joys.”
The Vitals by Marie de Quatrebarbes
Translated from the French by Aiden Farrell
World Poetry | May 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-32-1
In “elliptical prose vignettes,” this collection asks “questions about family, survival, and of the shared experience of grief and longing.”
In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse by Mary Mackey
Marsh Hawk Press | May 15, 2025
ISBN: 9798987617762
Mackey “unflinchingly imagines the future we will face as the Earth’s climate changes” in her poetry collection.
The Men Who Killed My Mother by Fernando Valverde
Translated from the Spanish by Gordon E. McNeer
Swan Isle Press | May 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781961056091
In this bilingual poetry collection, Valverde “leads us into a forest full of wolves and serpents under the governance of civil society.”
The Sky Will Overtake You by Marcia Falk
Scarlet Tanager | May 19, 2025
ISBN: 9781734531381
According to Jehanne Dubrow, this poetry collection examines “the lyrical responsibilities of the poet: to create meaning and beauty, to grieve what’s lost, and to express gratitude for every fragile, tenuous moment of being human.”
Things a Bright Boy Can Do by Michael Chang
Coach House Books | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781552454978
In this collection, “the titans of pop culture and poetry wrestle at Chang’s whimsy, their poems a series of flings and retorts at the end of a late-night spree.”
I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid by Adam Haiun
Coach House Books | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781552454961
According to Adam Dickinson, Haiun’s book-length poem “ingeniously enacts a nonhuman consciousness trapped in our networks.”
Theory of the Voice and Dream by Liliana Ponce
Translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea
World Poetry | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-33-8
According to Michelle Gil-Montero, this collection bringing together some of Ponce’s serial poems is “a poetics of the beginning—not as an origin, but as an endless thrust of becoming and undoing.”
Story Line Press | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781636282992
Uschuk’s poetry collection is “a masterful exploration of resilience, love, and the echoes of history, set against the stark beauty of nature and the sharp edges of human conflict.”
Radiant Wound by Cara Waterfall
Unsolicited Press | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-77-2
Waterfall’s poetry collection is “both an anthem and a lament, a poetic exploration of life between cultures, languages, and the landscapes of Côte d’Ivoire.”
Black Lawrence Press | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781625571595
In this book, Westhale’s poetry “applies a formal approach to what is truly unfathomable to consider: speculation of the world’s end, and the spectrum of possible conquests to follow.”
Translated from the Italian by Danielle Pieratti
World Poetry | May 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-30-7
Borio’s first English-language poetry collection “confronts the interpersonal crises of contemporary lives caught between two worlds—one ancient and abiding, the other rapid, digital, and increasingly diverse.”
Cursive Paradise by Kaur Alia Ahmed
Wendy’s Subway | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9909878-2-1
In this poetry collection, Ahmed “offers a view of subjectivity and gender made resonant and malleable, insisting on language that is lush with what cannot be contained by the voice or the page.”
A Brief History of the Midwest by Andrew Grace
Black Lawrence Press | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781625571588
Grace’s poems “trace the trajectory of the middle of America from its colonization to the present day.”
Slant Books | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781639821969
The poems in Vanishments ask, “How is knowledge made manifest? How do our senses clarify our knowing? In what way do our senses distort this thing we call the real?”
Apostle of Desire by Bruce Weigl
BOA Editions | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145437
Weigl’s poems “juxtapose the peace and comfort offered by the natural world with the bruising intensity of manmade violence.”
Bonne Annee by Yasmin S. Brown
Prolific Pulse Press LLC | May 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1962374460
According to Russell L Drake, this poetry collection is a “beautiful testament to life’s cycles and surprises, to the depth of human feeling, and to the ways we return to ourselves-season after season.”
The Figure Outward by Jean Daive
Translated from the French by Kevin Holden
Black Square Editions | May 30, 2025
ISBN: 9798986037004
Daive’s book-length poem “is ‘set’ in Mesoamerica, where it encounters conflicts and harmonies between sustenance, desire, and ritual, the origins of writing, the origins of money, and the ecosystems of both animal and cultural worlds.”
All Were Limones by Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
The Word Works | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1944585891
According to Jennifer Oakes, the voice in these poems “is one that both sings and scours, wades into toughness to get to vulnerability and then doubles back to double down—all while lifting music from language and beauty from rubble.”
Solemnity Rites by Loralee Clark
Prolific Pulse Press | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1962374477
This poetry collection is an “account of reimagined myths and truths of who we are as humans and how we live our histories.”
Lantana; or, the indissoluble exhalation by bruno darío
Translated from the Spanish by Kit Schluter
Ugly Duckling Presse | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-16-3
This trilogy of poetry books “centers on the relationship of a young man (the Inconsolable) and an older woman who unexpectedly takes her own life (Lantana/Anfitriona).”
The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster by Dale Going
Codhill Press | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949933-30-7
Going’s poetry collection “reflects with lyric grace and formal innovation on the reverberating trauma and long-term effects of illness.”
Split Daughter of Eve by Catherine Gonick
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-16-4
This poetry collection “describes a lifelong attempt to arrive at a sense of soul, self, and worldly identity, from an initial dark mess of imposed meanings.”
Parade of Storms by Evelyn Lau
Anvil Press | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77214-245-7
“Weather, both physical and emotional, forms the backdrop” to Lau’s poetry collection, written when “the recent effects of climate change became more and more intrusive and unavoidable.”
The Center for Literary Publishing | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-885635-93-8
This poetry collection traverses “the Ice Age; the excavation of the oldest female body; ancient Los Angeles before humans; and, in Sweden (McCabe’s mother’s home country), the 377-million-year-old meteor-made Siljan lake, in conversation with the oldest tree alive.”
Mapping the Borderlands: Haibun & Tanka Prose by Barbara Sabol
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-15-7
The poems in this collection “live at the edge of an impassable boundary between human and animal worlds.”
Juvenilia by Hera Lindsay Bird
Deep Vellum | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-377-3
This debut “wrangles the flamboyant, provocative pique of youth into a poetry collection highly focused and desperately alive.”
Rural Astronomy by Georgann Eubanks
EastOver Press | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-958094-57-0
The poems in Eubanks’ collection “shift between childhood memories and her contemporary observations of the ongoing clash between Nature and human entitlement.”
When I Was a King by John Krumberger
Fernwood Press | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-159-3
The poems in this collection “take readers through the worst darkness that life can give a person, finding a bright light shining on the other side.”
Spring Mountain: The Complete Poems of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn
Translated from the Korean by Ian Haight and T’ae-young Hŏ
White Pine Press | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945680-80-9
In this collection, “hardships that cannot be overcome but only endured are named and lamented: the death of children, abandonment by husbands, and destruction of households from war.”
Tree Fall with Birdsong by Kendall Dunkelberg
Fernwood Press | June 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-160-9
This collection explores “the natural world around the poet’s home in Mississippi and delves into memories of the rural landscapes of Iowa where he was raised, Flanders, and other places he has traveled.”
Fernwood Press | June 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-162-3
According to Lorcan Black, this poetry collection is an “unflinching masterwork of unpicking the familial ties, the ‘white lies,’ we live with and how we forge ourselves separate from them.”
Future Tense Books | June 6, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9986256-0-2
“Born out of a fascination with common sayings, turns of phrase, and the absurd,” this collection of prose poetry is about “love, family, assurance, and doubt.”
Wild Nest, No Prison by Marita O’Neill
Deerbrook Editions | June 7, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9903529-4-0
According to Betsy Sholl, the poems in this collection “lead to wisdom and a deep caring for all who are lost or wayward or vulnerable, animal and human.”
The Shortest Stories: A midwife writes birth haiku on each beginning by Janelle Alier
Good Printed Things | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9921993-2-1
This poetry collection “captures the fleeting, transformative moments of birth through the elegance of haiku.”
dispersed holdings | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-986799-03-2
This poetry collection “records the results of nine computational ‘gyms,’ each intended to challenge and strengthen a particular aspect of the subject’s poetic musculature.”
Red Hen Press | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-194-0
According to Norman Dubie, Lemons “continues his relentless exploration into the personal/global linguistic” with this poetry collection.
Alice James Books | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949944-73-0
According to Edward Hirsch, this debut poetry collection “dramatizes what it’s like to stand on the outside looking in, to be in a relationship with someone who is incarcerated, to live within a love confined by the state.”
Recovery Commands by Abby E. Murray
Ex Ophidia Press | June 12, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-218-66786-3
According to Frances Richey, readers of this poetry collection are “guided into a world that has existed as long as armies and military families have been on the planet: the world of the military spouse.”
Death Fluorescence by Julia Bouwsma
Sundress Publications | June 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951979-74-4
In this poetry collection, Bouwsma “expertly crafts an exploration of life on this Earth woven with the wonders of parasitic worms, Jewish identity, and the persistent neurosis of mice.”
The Becoming Game by Paula Cisewski
Hanging Loose Press | June 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9913377-2-4
According to Lee Ann Roripaugh, in this book of poems which originated in a writing practice after the 2016 presidential election, Cisewski “shuffles the arcana into poems that are communal, intimate, divinatory, and linguistically exquisite.”
Unlikely Skylight by Hollis Kurman
Barrow Street | June 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962131-10-0
According to Bryan R. Monte, this book is an “unforgettable poetry collection about family, fidelity, war, death, brain injury, migration, and even birds and dance.”
Elixir: New and Selected Poems by Aaron Shurin
Nightboat Books | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64362-276-7
This collection of poems “draws from a dozen books over a period of fifty years, presciently investigating issues of gender, homosexuality, identity, and subjectivity via ecstatic diction, luxurious sound-scape, creative grammar, and radical form.”
Reclaiming the Nectar and the Hum by Peg Edera
Fernwood Press | June 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-166-1
Edera’s poems are “a mother’s guide to loss, an inquiry into generational mysteries, and a song cycle of transformation.”
Vine Leaves Press | June 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-157-2
This poetry collection is “the yield of almost nine years of notebooks, observations and locations, mostly Athens and Berlin, but a smattering of London, Marrakech, Cameroon and West Bengal.”
PROTOCOLS: An Erasure by Daniela Naomi Molnar
Ayin Press | June 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961814-23-3
This book-length poem “transforms the world’s most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an erasure poem exploring essential questions of power, history, and language.”
TERROR COUNTER by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
Deep Vellum | June 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-379-7
This debut poetry collection “acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.”
Glass Labyrinth by Hailey Spencer
Thirty West Publishing House | June 27, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9895422-8-4
According to Beth Cato, this “choose-your-own-adventure” poetry collection is an “ethereal meditation on loneliness, grief, and the relentless swirl of life.”
The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News by Roy Bentley
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | June 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-19-5
According to Suzanne Cleary, the poems in this collection “drive head-on into hard truth, humor and gravity in precarious and well-considered balance.”
murmurations by Anthony Thomas Lombardi
YesYes Books | June 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946303-03-5
This collection “navigates the fractured intersections between addiction and grief, class and community, where the lyrical lives in the blasphemous and our invocations summon ghosts instead of saints.”
That Special Something by John Popielaski
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | June 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-21
According to Matt Morris, Popielaski’s poetry collection “finds a unified purpose in the seeming disparity of all manner of existence, whether mountain lions, horseweed, bee balm, garden slugs, unmown grass, or misnomered humanity.”
Lit Fox Books | July 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9922329-0-5
According to Patrick Phillips, this debut features “unflinching poems from a writer who knows how to summon her ghosts and make them sing.”
Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet by Rhoni Blankenhorn
Trio House Press | July 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949487-35-0
“Slipping between exterior and interior with an unflinching gaze,” this poetry collection “invites us to embrace the impossible complexity of human experience.”
Trio House Press | July 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949487-34-3
This poetry collection “explores our constant cycle of reinvention and imitation, an engine that both holds us back and moves us forward.”
Tips to Help You Do Your Best by Mike Carlson
Tupelo Press | July 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-34-3
“Written over a fifteen-year period,” the poems in this collection “seek an imaginative wisdom on the outskirts of conventional thinking.”
Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon
Black Ocean | July 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-965154-01-4
This poetry collection explores a “tautology of thresholds and shores to remake our world, our experience of nature, and our relationship with climate, creation, and humankind’s existential place in a world staring down the apocalypse.”
Trio House Press | July 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949487-36-7
This poetry collection “embodies the meaning of the word ‘mele’ – a Hawaiian song or chant traditionally used to preserve history through the oral tradition.”
Nightboat Books | July 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64362-277-4
“Documenting (and interrogating) the poet’s daily walks,” this collection “investigates the twin practices of walking and art-making while aging.”
The Grace of Black Mothers by Martheaus Perkins
Trio House Press | July 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949487-42-8
The poems in this collection are “drenched in complexity and nuance: homemade heroes and villains, justice and fabrication, wit and risk, resurrection and erasure.”
Voice/Poems by Susan Azar Porterfield
Trio House Press | July 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949487-46-6
According to Zeeshan Pathan, Porterfield is a “master of restraint and deeply mines the domestic interior of her life in poem after poem.”
Translated from the Faroese by Randi Ward
Deep Vellum | July 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-372-8
This poetry collection “follows the struggles of its narrator as he reckons with intensifying estrangement from his fellow organisms, gradually turning to the greater kinship of matter to find continuity, connection, and solace.”
Black Lawrence Press | July 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62557-162-5
This poetry collection is a “vibrant, genre-busting collection of voices, observations and memories that trigger nostalgia of a lost time, lost neighborhood, lost city.”
Solomonian: Erotic Poems and Other Poems by Domício Coutinho
Translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin
Tough Poets Press | July 15, 2025
ISBN: 9798218695941
This dual-language edition is a “gorgeous collection of erotic and other poems by Brazilian-born Coutinho, presented in both the original Portuguese and a new English translation” by Entrekin.
The Show Must Go On by Mary Warren Foulk
Fernwood Press | July 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-165-4
This memoir in poems “centers on the topics of sibling loss and queer identity, including queer parenting.”
The Gobi of Was by George Kalamaras
Black Square Editions | July 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9860370-4-2
“Drawing on his long-term engagement with Surrealism,” the poems in Kalamaras’s collection “move across time and space in ways that plumb the depths of the unconscious, helping to re-imagine the Gobi Desert as not just physical geography but also as a landscape within.”
Fire in the Waiting Room by Liv Mammone
Game Over Books | July 15, 2025
ISBN: 9798989940097
According to Desireé Dallagiacomo, these poems “are a precise guide through belonging, grief, and above all: a deep and withstanding love for disabled and discarded bodies.”
Exquisite Corpse by Malú Urriola
Translated from the Spanish by Elena Barcia
Unsolicited Press | July 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-41-3
The poems in Urriola’s sixth collection “dive into the emotional intensity of memory—whether through vivid sexual encounters or profound personal grief—often morphing into surreal, imaginative leaps.”
new words {press} | July 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-968528-01-0
“Reconsidering the stories of Greco-Roman mythological figures,” the poems in this collection “don’t just retell these stories in a contemporary queer context, but consider how, reimagined and renewed over millennia, they resonate with our lives now.”
In the Needle, A Woman by Susan Michele Coronel
Finishing Line Press | July 18, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89990-114-0
In this poetry collection, Coronel “deftly weaves together strands of challenging life experiences, including the complexities of the mother-daughter bond, divorce, family losses, and her Jewish ancestors’ traumatic past.”
In the Factory of Loathing by Michael N. Steffen
Fernwood Press | July 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-163-0
This poetry collection provides a “critical look at the United States of America as a ‘factory of loathing,’ the place where our Second Amendment assembly lines shape—with incredible uniformity—the various words and weapons that are then distributed throughout the world.”
Tantrums in Air by Emily Skillings
The Song Cave | July 24, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9912988-0-3
Skillings’s poetry collection is a “wild romp through verbal reality, marking her as one of contemporary poetry’s shining stars of humor, insight, and edge.”
Good Printed Things | July 29, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7345844-9-3
This collection continues Redmond’s “poetic journey through South Carolina’s 47 state parks, deepening her exploration of nature, memory, and resilience.”
South Broadway Press | July 31, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64362-271-2
According to Marissa Forbes, Foote’s debut collection “weaves snapshots of what it’s like to be an educator who understands the rawness of their students’ experiences with snapshots of what it’s like to walk out of the school and into a world that’s both beautiful and terrifying.”
The Tenderness of Glass by Jodi Lin
new words {press} | August 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1968528003
According to Eileen Myles, Lin’s debut collection—a “part memoir and part manifesto” featuring narrative verse and prose poetry—is “rapturous, ornate, straight-shooting, dirty and fun, contemporary and ancient.”
Force Drift: An Essay in the Epic by Jeffrey Pethybridge
Tupelo Press | August 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-56-5
In this poetry collection, Pethybridge “confronts the ethical disaster of the torture program that the United States used to advance the so-called global war on terror.”
Regaining Unconsciousness by Harryette Mullen
Graywolf Press | August 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-349-0
In her first new collection in twelve years, Mullen “confronts the imminent dangers of our present to sound an alarm for our future, to wake us out of our complicity and despondency.”
This Eye Is for Seeing Stars by Christine Poreba
Orison Books | August 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949039-59-7
The poems in this collection “offer a mother’s tender ruminations as she watches her child encounter the complexities of the world, moving through cities in the speaker’s present and past, through loss and a child’s imagination.”
Saint Consequence by Michael M. Weinstein
Alice James Books | August 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949944-74-7
According to Katie Peterson, this poetry collection is a “book of 21st century transits—out of an iconic American childhood, towards the culture and language of Russia, out of one gender and into another.”
The Elsewhere Oracle by Michele Battiste
Black Lawrence Press | August 12, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62557-193-9
This poetry collection tells the story of a “forgotten town: the history of its disappearance, the ghosts that haunt its streets, and the monsters that linger in the woods and the lake.”
Bodies Found in Various Places / Cuerpos encontrados en varias partes by Elvira Hernández
Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher
Cardboard House Press | August 12, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945720-37-6
This anthology of poems written between 1981 and 2016 “brings the award-winning contemporary Chilean poet’s work of love, survival, persistence, disturbance, amazement, and delight to a new audience.”
Flowers on a Train by Laurel Benjamin
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | August 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-26-3
This poetry collection “traverses a natural world both real and imagined, where we hunger for something beyond the boundaries of loss.”
A Man Made of Stories by George Franklin
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | August 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-28-7
The poems in this collection “take the reader on journeys through experiences that shape both the literal self—born on one date, dead on another—and the imagined self that continues in the lines of a poem.”
In Search of a Face by Aurélia Lassaque
Translated from the French and Occitan by Madeleine Campbell
White Pine Press | August 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945680-81-6
According to Hélène Cardona, this narrative poem “revisits Homer’s ancient myth through dialogues like intertwined songs between Ulysses and the nameless She, where they echo and haunt one another.”
Shaking Music from the Angry Air by Michael Dwayne Smith
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | August 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-23-2
The poems in this collection “sling us straight into the American southwest world of a boy-to-man quest through cities, coasts, and deserts.”
Red Hen Press | August 19, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-364-7
In this collection, Joseph is “concerned with the inevitable search for home—as a woman, as a person of color, and as a poet.”
How My Father Became a Boat by John Miller
Fernwood Press | August 19, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-169-2
The poems in this collection “speak to the speaker’s individual loss as well as to the collective grief of recognizing America’s frailties.”
Shedding Season by Jane Morton
Black Lawrence Press | August 19, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62557-176-2
“With language, image, and narrative always in flux,” the poems in this collection “inhabit the grey areas between desire and disgust, safety and survival.”
Grid Books | August 19, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946830-39-5
This novella-in-verse “tells the story of the author’s coming out as bisexual, as related through meditations on the work of Sargent, whom several scholars now think may well have been gay, though closeted.”
101 Stories of Love by William Waldorf
Prolific Pulse Press LLC | August 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962374-51-4
In this poetry collection, Waldorf “invites his readers to explore myriad forms of love—from whispered intimacy to the poignant ache of absence, from shared laughter in a café to the serene desolation of widowhood.”
Dear Vase Already Shattered Against The Fragile Floor by Michael Leong
Black Square Editions | August 25, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9860370-5-9
In this book, Leong’s “surrealist poetry wagers upon an ethics and aesthetics of disorientation.”
Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
Host Publications | August 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7376050-8-9
According to Oliver Baez Bendorf, the poems in this collection “do not flinch from obliteration, chronic illness, or state violence—but they do not end there.”
All the Possible Bodies by Iain Haley Pollock
Alice James Books | September 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949944-90-7
According to Afaa M. Weaver, this poetry collection “shimmers with a brilliance that allows the light of honesty and courage to penetrate the dense mass existent in the swirling of race and caste in America.”
The Tide Book by Vivian Faith Prescott
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | September 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-34-8
Prescott’s poems are a “lyrical record of living beside the Pacific Ocean while caretaking for an aging father” as “the daily rhythm of tidal life becomes what sustains her through the waves of life’s hardships.”
Surviving the Eremocene by Chuck Salmons
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | September 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-32-4
This poetry collection “explores and expands upon the meaning of Eremocene, or Age of Loneliness, a term popularized by biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson.”
Flight Plan by M. Soledad Caballero
Red Hen Press | September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-252-7
The poems in this collection “map the aftermaths of cancer, the varied routes of migration, and the geographies of memory.”
Green Linden Press | September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-09-5
According to Baron Wormser, Kearney “uses the sonnet to tell a story that is personal and poetic, medical and historical, mortal and fabled, physical and metaphysical” in this collection.
Tulipwood Books | September 2, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9914048-2-2
In this collection of poetry and essays, Lavin “crafts a generous vision of Lake Michigan, Chicago, pacifist Jewish heritage, climate science, sensuality, love, and ethics—all experienced through the senses of an ever-changing body.”
The Color of Peace by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Black Ocean | September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1939568-99-1
This poetry collection “weaves together deeply personal narratives of family, history, war, and humanity, offering a profound meditation on healing and hope across cultures and time.”
Translated from the Korean by Shyun Ahn
Black Ocean | September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-965154-05-2
The poems in this collection “play with homophones and homonyms while keeping the wit, criticalness, and beauty we associate with Korean poetry.”
Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Translated from the Spanish by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Graywolf Press | September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-351-3
Composed of two original texts—one written in the Puerto Rican dialect of Spanish, the other in a reconsideration of English—Algarabía “inscribes an origin narrative for trans people in the face of their erasure from both colonial and anti-colonial literary canons.”
Fernwood Press | September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-170-8
“Written in a meditative, identity-based style,” these poems “resemble an urban tapestry, touching on the cost of progress and the fading spirit of community in the early twenty-first century.”
University of Pittsburgh Press | September 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6749-1
According to Nate Marshall, this poetry collection “confronts the subject of fatherhood with an honesty and tenderness rarely accorded to the typical secondary parent.”
What God in the Kingdom of Bastards by Brian Gyamfi
University of Pittsburgh Press | September 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6757-6
This collection is a “poetic exploration of grief, memory, Blackness, and the haunting legacy of familial trauma by way of colonialism, told through the lens of two brothers: Lot, the elder, who is flesh and alive, and Frank, the younger, a ghost navigating his post-suicide existence.”
The American Poetry Review | September 9, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9875852-3-8
Winner of the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, this poetry collection “reimagines Cain and Abel as they navigate the dense geography of girlhood into young womanhood to explore violence, love, sex, faith, and man’s dominion over the earth.”
Satan Says 45th: Anniversary Edition by Sharon Olds
University of Pittsburgh Press | September 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4897-1
According to Ada Limón, this poetry collection originally published in 1980 is “more than a book; it is the original mother plant where all the seeds have come from.”
The Unnumbered Anniversaries by Kurt Olsson
Fernwood Press | September 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-171-5
These poems are a “testament to the ordinary, those fragments of time and place, of people and things, that distance and reflection somehow transform into the extraordinary.”
Betweenness by Varun Ravindran
Baobab Press | September 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-936097-60-9
According to Samiya Bashir, the poems in this collection “swell and recede across generations and geographies: from Madras to the Oregon coast, from the echo of a grandfather’s voice to the hush of a lover’s breath.”
Goat, Goddess, Moon by Catherine Strisik
Holy Cow! Press | September 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-66640-697-9
According to Leslie Ullman, this poetry collection is a “singing through the body and through place, of identifying with, and returning to an imprint of origin; that of ancestral northern Greek villages, diaspora, and the sublime mythical labyrinth that is Crete.”
Creek Water: New & Selected Poems by Edward Harkness
Empty Bowl Press | September 12, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-991740-04-3
This collection spanning five decades of Harkness’s work “reminds us that history and our lives are made of moments that when witnessed deeply and generously can transform.”
Night of the Manhattans by Jennifer Juneau
Pink Trees Press | September 12, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9898695-9-6
This poetry collection “guides the reader through life experienced within vibrant and ceaseless energy” and “unspools with reckless yearning as it reaches for the sublime.”
Perugia Press | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-9978076-9-1
This debut poetry collection “explores Mormon girlhood, the American West, matriarchal lineage, indoctrination, estrangement, and the lingering ramifications of being raised within a repressive and patriarchal American religious ideology.”
In the Good Years by Laura Cresté
Four Way Books | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-56-4
In these poems, Cresté “fixes her scrupulous gaze on the interwoven threads of this distressed anthropocene era, taking in the whole cloth of our globalized societies.”
Someone Else’s Hunger by Isabella DeSendi
Four Way Books | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-58-8
“Poised between her Cuban matrilineage and her first-generation adolescence in America, between assimilation and reclamation,” DeSendi’s poems “dissect our human obsession with beauty and the body.”
Bro ken Rengay: Unruly Poems by Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and Barbara Leonhard
Prolific Pulse Press | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781962374576
In this collaboratively written poetry collection inspired by the rengay form, Fox, Lemay, and Leonhard “deliberately abandoned strict haiku syllable counts—breaking, bending, and reshaping the form as they wrote.”
First Matter Press | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-958600-11-5
According to Yesika Salgado, this collection “explores the constant question of belonging, of too-much-ness, of the understanding of the misunderstood—a bilingual love letter to home, self, and the beyond.”
Four Way Books | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-64-9
In this poetry collection, Grubin “shapes language and silences into a bridge that holds us between longing and understanding, between effort and the holy ground of that unattainable destination.”
Lost Horse Press | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9890965-7-2
According to Paula Bohince, Hughes’s “time in Antarctica and Southeast Asia mingles with startlingly clear portraits of a marriage’s soft conflicts” in his fifth collection of poems.
All Calm Beyond by Stephen Knauth
Four Way Books | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-50-2
The poems in this collection “chart the path between acute mourning to the beginning of recovery, asking what it looks like to continue despite the permanence of loss.”
Raven on the Moaners’ Bench by Gary Copeland Lilley
Four Way Books | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-62-5
This poetry collection “locates itself within the oceanic canon that grapples with loss and within the rich history of Black letters, marking a staggering achievement in both.”
Four Way Books | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-48-9
This collection of poetry cataloguing whale species by common name and behaviors “defies pathetic fallacy even as it sings the similarities between homo sapiens and the marine mammoths that have long captured our fascination.”
The Birth of Undoing by Emily Patterson
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-30-0
In this poetry collection, Patterson “offers a clear-eyed portrayal of the complexities of becoming and being a parent in our world.”
Burn Me Back by Peggy Robles-Alvarado
Four Way Books | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-66-3
“At the cross section of Puerto Rican and Dominican diasporas,” the speaker of these poems “refuses to abandon what resists translation, makes the space she needs, and transforms objects as she names them.”
Philomel, Whose Reputation Precedes Her by Danielle Ryle
Lit Fox Books | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8992232912
This poetry collection “measures the distance between a poetic form and a form to fill out” as “the figure of Philomela asks you to remember, not what happened, but who she is.”
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Matthew Tuckner
Four Way Books | September 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-54-0
According to Catherine Barnett, “reading this collection is like listening to someone record the apocalypse happening in real time in language so charged and with images so vivid you might forget the apocalypse is here.”
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | September 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1966075035
According to brice maiurro, this collection is “an invitation to live a more curious existence, to embrace the ‘penumbra’: the something between shadow and illumination.”
My Father is Calling the Neighbors Names by Alan Humm
Vine Leaves Press | September 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-167-1
In these poems, Humm takes readers through “a wide variety of topics—love; parenthood; foreign travel; David Bowie; Charlie Chaplin; his drunken father; pop music; Donald Trump; D-Day—in an impressive variety of styles.”
Lullaby for the Grieving by Ashley M. Jones
Hub City Press | September 16, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-88574-058-6
In this poetry collection, Jones “studies the multifaceted nature of grief: the personal grief of losing her father, and the political grief tied to Black Southern identity.”
Pandora’s Kitchen by Ron Koertge
Red Hen Press | September 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-293-0
According to Amy Gerstler, Koertge transforms fairy tales, Bible stories, Greek myths, horror movies, and more “into poems rich with contradictions, role reversals, juicy ambiguities, and as Emily Dickinson put it, ‘truth’s superb surprise.’”
The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed
Nightboat Books | September 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64362-297-2
This illustrated book of poetry is an “extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo—poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed–that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.”
The Double Nest by Rhett Watts
Fernwood Press | September 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-172-2
In this poetry collection, Watts celebrates “a seventy-year-old albatross, the friendship of a wolf with a bear, a medieval monk’s attempt at flight, and the brother she could not save.”
The Stone in My Shoe by Lucy Logsdon
Pierian Springs Press | September 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781953136718
In these poems, Logsdon “lets rip with a gasoline candidness on topics from a love letter to her surgeon to her choice, no, desire for corporal punishment in school.”
June Road Press | September 23, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9874328-6-0
“Based on her experience as a wilderness guide for women in a substance-abuse treatment program,” Ardery’s debut poetry collection is for “those who have been affected by addiction and all who have ever sought solace or redemption in nature.”
Lifting the Island by David Eggleton
Red Hen Press | September 23, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-290-9
This poetry collection is a “kind of lyrical word map of the South Pacific, built up through a lush epic catalog of flora, fauna, and artifacts.”
Dreams For Earth by Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi
Deep Vellum | September 23, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-399-5
In her debut poetry collection, Hirsi “chronicles experiences from quarantining in Dallas, to being the sole Black person in an Oregon ecovillage, to building relationships with land and water on Vancouver Island.”
The Presence of One Word by Andrea Potos
Fernwood Press | September 23, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-173-9
According to Marge Piercy, Potos’s poems are “powerful in their well-crafted expression of love—for her mother, grandmother, friends, places that moved her in Ireland or Greece or just her own or her grandmother’s house.”
Nightboat Books | September 23, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64362-291-0
According to Natalie Shapero, these poems “spin absurdist nightmares of art and history, of links and screenshots and mediated engagement with atrocity, of the genocide against Palestinians and the many attendant erasures.”
Green Writers Press | September 23, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9914134-7-3
The poems in this collection “ask the reader to participate in a decentered human, activist planetary repair rather than adapt to the sufferings of climate-driven doom.”
Green Linden Press | September 23, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-07-1
This poetry collection “captures the experience of living between the domestic and the absurd, the lyrical and the narrative, oscillating between these states as a reflection of day-to-day existence.”
Translated from the Mandarin by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Zephyr Press | September 23, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938890-35-2
The poems in this posthumous collection “span Zhang Zao’s short career, beginning with ‘Mirror,’ one of his earliest and best known works, and ending with ‘Lantern Town,’ written less than two months before his death.”
Hands in Clay by Mildred Kiconco Barya
Serving House Books | September 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-947175-99-0
According to Bruce Smith, in this poetry collection Barya “has a discourse with the spirit world in dreams and receives messages from ancestors, phantom children, and the dead.”
Nightboat Books | September 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64362-294-1
“Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic,” this poetry collection is an “exercise in turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause.”
The Yellow Suitcase by Djelloul Marbrook
Pierian Springs Press | September 30, 2025
ISBN: 9781965784235
In The Yellow Suitcase, Marbrook “fuses personal history with mythic undertones, guiding us through poems that pulse with loss, longing, and the promise of renewal.”
Monster Monologues by Patricia Nelson
Fernwood Press | September 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-175-3
According to John Sibley Williams, this poetry collection “investigates the sharper edges of interpersonal relationships, family, loss, and transformation in a series of exciting, accessible poems that focus on our shared myths, fables, and monsters.”
Interlocutor Goddess by Jasmine Reid
Autumn House Press | September 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63768-111-4
This debut poetry collection “challenges societal norms, particularly the family as a political construct, while reflecting on the trans experiences of a queer Black woman.”
My Perfect Cognate by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Copper Canyon Press | September 30, 2025
ISBN: 9781556597275
Scenters-Zapico’s collection “interrogates the connections and contrasts at the sharp edges of her in-betweens: violence and softness, motherhood and isolation, the border between the United States and Mexico.”
Something Small of How to See a River by Teresa Dzieglewicz
Tupelo Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946482-82-2
“Through the weaving of documentary poetics, first-hand accounts, dialogue, and lyric,” the poems in this collection “tell the story of co-running a school at the Ocethi Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock.”
Crossing the Line by Andrey Gritsman
Červená Barva Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950063-87-1
According to Ilya Kaminsky, in this poetry collection “the perspective of a foreign language gives one a distance that allows one to see things with precision that is almost eerie.”
Translated from the Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé
Trio House Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 1949487512
Ho-seung’s poetry collection “explores human existence through an interconnectivity to nature and the cosmos.”
Girl in a Forest by Elline Lipkin
Trio House Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781949487626
According to Victoria Chang, these “list-making poems in fugue quietly accumulate agency, one phrase at a time.”
1000 Pieces of Time by Michael Minassian
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-36-2
The poems in this collection “weave fleeting encounters, centuries-long love stories, lingering grudges, and moments of unexpected clarity into a surreal cloth grounded in verisimilitude.”
Radiator Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7328145-7-8
According to Marie Buck, this poetry collection “registers all the hours we’ve lost to working; it also registers the continuous urge to want more from life than just sustaining oneself with a paycheck.”
Alice James Books | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781949944891
According to Publishers Weekly, this poetry collection “interrogates interiority, motherhood, and the choices of famous female figures” as Parks “memorably evokes the textures and intricacies of life on earth.”
Long Eyes by Khrystia Vengryniuk
Translated from the Ukrainian by Dmytro Kyyan and Kate Tsurkan
Lost Horse Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9890965-4-1
This collection of poems is “both a confession that pours forth like rain from the heavens and a lingering hallucination that refuses to release its grip upon having subsided.”
The Book of Rain by Abū Zayd Al-Anṣāri
Translated from the Arabic by David Larsen
Wave Books | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9798891060364
The earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, Abū Zayd’s “lexicography of rain is simultaneously an academic, archival, and poetic pursuit.”
Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson
Black Ocean | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1965154-07-6
Berg’s collection is a “linguistically playful and dark book of poems from one of Sweden’s most influential and unique poets.”
Dead Things and Where to Put Them by Marina Carreira
CavanKerry Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-13-0
This poetry collection “provides a nuanced look at how grief manifests in everyday life, especially in the face of isolation and uncertainty.”
An Immigrant’s Guide to Navigating Borders and Bodies of Water by Aileen Cassinetto
Paloma Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781734496567
The poems in this collection “trace what we carry and what we leave behind in the ongoing work of negotiating borders within ourselves and across the world.”
Translated from the Turkish by Alev Ersan, Amy Spangler, and Mark Wyers
Deep Vellum | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781646054015
“From the Byzantine Empire to the twentieth-century Turkey of Erbil’s experience,” this novel-in-verse “searches urgently for a way to escape recurrent cycles of suffering, all while preserving hope in the smallest acts of kindness.”
The Green Lives by Sara Gilmore
Fonograf Editions | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-45-1
According to m.s. RedCherries, Gilmore’s debut poetry collection “finds feelings in the abandon and serves as evidence of her wisdom and place as one of poetry’s greats.”
Closed Season by Monika Herceg
Translated from the Croatian by Marina Veverec
Sandorf Passage | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9789533515311
In this poetry collection, Herceg uses hunting symbolism to “explore new ways to express the horrors women the world over have been, and are continually, forced to deal with in a painfully patriarchal world.”
The Natural Order of Things by Donika Kelly
Graywolf Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-359-9
This poetry collection is an “ode to companionship with people, animals, and our planet, and reveals the reparative power of intimacy.”
No Rhododendron by Samyak Shertok
University of Pittsburgh Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN : 9780822967484
“Part elegy, part poetry of witness, and part poetry of exile,” this collection is a “lament to the poet-speaker’s father and fatherland and a grief-wrought love letter to his mother and mother tongue.”
Sundress Publications | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1951979812
In these poems, Vorreyer “charts the ways loss impacts the body and our perceptions of self, and how we are to keep on living.”
Girl With A Bullet by Anna Malihon
Translated from the Ukrainian by Olena Jennings
World Poetry Books | October 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-35-2
Malihon’s English-language debut “gathers daring, resilient, open-eyed poems written before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion.”
The Map of the World by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Wake Forest University Press | October 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-943667-17-8
In this collection, “there are pilgrimages to holy wells, bishops and bookbinders, and poems in conversation with writers and artists, from Andrew Marvell, Milton, and Joyce to Irish painter Nano Reid and stained-glass artist Helen Moloney.”
JackLeg Press | October 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781956907209
According to Kiki Petrosino, the poems in this collection “thrive at the intersection of mystery and modernity, creating ‘a carriage of entanglements’ and ever-deepening questions around collective notions of goodness, beauty, and the divine.”
the past is a jean jacket by Cloud Delfina Cardona
Hub City Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-88574-059-3
“Reminiscent of being in a heavily postered room with rock music blasting,” Cardona’s debut poetry collection is a “time capsule of a 90s queer, Latinx teenhood.”
Translated from the Catalan by AKaiser
Zephyr Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938890-36-9
Gual’s poems “express life in all its unexpectedness, whether she is exploring relationships between human beings and the rest of our universe, between and within bodies, or language itself.”
Everything Alive by Molly Johnsen
Green Writers Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9914134-6-6
“With desperate longing and raw vulnerability—but also surprising humor,” this debut poetry collection “confronts trauma and disability like long-lost relatives.”
Earthly Conditions: Selected Poems by Birhan Keskin
Translated from the Turkish by Öykü Tekten
World Poetry Books | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-36-9
This poetry collection, Keskin’s first to be published in the US, “explores the loss and longing of the human condition in the context of its separation from the non-human world.”
Turtle Point Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781885586285
“Whether conversing with ghosts or the living, with animals or plants,” the poems in this collection are “concerned with transformative relationships with and within the ‘natural world.”
Translated from the French by Cole Swensen
Green Linden Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-10-1
This poetry collection “captures something both subtle and insightful about quotidian struggle and the human spirit—to wit: its refusal to give in, even when wracked by regret, grief, and a tendency to brood.”
Disaster Tourism by Rena J. Mosteirin
BOA Editions | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960145-77-2
Disaster Tourism “gives us a lens to re-imagine our dangerous surroundings in the hopes that we strive toward a better existence, even when it hurts.”
Mercurial, or Is That Liberty? by Rachelle Rahmé
Fonograf Editions | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-57-4
This debut poetry collection is “the work of a dual citizen—dual in conscience, dual in political allegiance, in exteriority, in friction with gender’s dualism, aspiration’s dualism, and the ache of the ethical.”
Kadupul Flower by Kimberly Vargas Agnese
Green Writers Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9914134-4-2
According to Juan Felipe Herrera, this collection is a “poetic memoir and a call for a ‘whole’ interconnection with nature, ancestors, family, self, and migrant realities in the San Joaquin Valley.”
The Accidental Courage of Our Lives by Victoria Melekian
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | October 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-38-6
According to Sarah Freligh, Melekian “mines the quotidian moments of a life and unearths a vein of gold in poems that are at once transcendent and wise” in this collection.
Barrow Street Press | October 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962131-11-7
“In these poems of family, love, and longing,” Zywicki “captures the experience of sonic and existential rupture, the wounds sustained in an enduring struggle with faith.”
Translated from the German by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie
World Poetry Books | October 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-37-6
Originally published in 1977, this debut collection “concocts a potent and volatile concrete poetry of structuralist social satire disrupted by flares of poetic whimsy drawn from the depths of the subconscious.”
White Pine Press | October 17, 2025
ISBN: 9781949641851
This book-length poem is an “oblique ode” to Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions, centering “unknowing and wonder as twin forces central to self-articulation, social witnessing, and survival.”
The Midnight Work by Jennifer Moxley
Flood Editions | October 20, 2025
ISBN: 9798985787498
This poetry collection is a “meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated post-Covid world of polarized politics and climate change.”
Rescue Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9798988683926
The poems in this collection “are funny and forceful, disrupting temporal and structural expectations with an insistence on a single word’s potential to shift the mood or rev a line’s engine.”
University of Pittsburgh Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9780822967583
“Rich in metaphor, affable and self-deprecating,” the poems in this collection “shine a spotlight on regret, infidelity, the feminine ideal, fear of death, and fear of insignificance.”
No Longer at This Address by Andrew Hemmert
University of Pittsburgh Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9780822967538
The poems in this collection centered on the American West “visit bison ranches in the Rocky Mountains, converse with a collapsed satellite, and find complicated joy among wildfire ash and lost dogs.”
Groceries by Nora Claire Miller
Fonograf Editions | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-54-3
According to Tracie Morris, this “daring, demanding, experimental and meditative” poetry collection “encourages conceptual thought about the performance space of the two dimensions.”
Lookout Books | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781940596587
Wade’s poetry “reckons with complexities of racial identity, masculinity, recovery, and spirituality, revealing the narrative and psychic evolution of a poet who has found himself in the language.”
The Scent of Man by Tadeusz Dabrowski
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Arrowsmith Press | October 23, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915254-5-9
This poetry collection “moves intimately through spaces sacred and profane, suggesting we are never fully in one world or the other but ever adrift in between.”
World on a String by Gail Mazur
Arrowsmith Press | October 23, 2025
ISBN: 9798991525442
According to Tom Sleigh, Mazur’s poems are “astonishing acts of linguistic virtuosity, seemingly plain-style but so quietly eloquent and luminous that they overbear loss, identity, even the atrocities of history itself.”
Arrowsmith Press | October 23, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915254-7-3
These poems are “haunting meditations, of ruptured narratives and bruised bodies,” that “celebrate resilience, and call for transformation of both self and society.”
At the Same Time by Wang Jiaxin
Translated from the Chinese by John Balcom
Arrowsmith Press | October 23, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915254-6-6
Wang’s poems “invite readers into a space of multiple cultural convergences as East and West engage in a luminous poetic dialogue.”
Tofu Ink Arts Press | October 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-958661-20-8
In this poetry collection, “the unrooted pilgrim poet (and the reader as a sort of pilgrim writer through interpretation) rhetorically fills in elliptical meanings via envisaging metaphor, exploring diverse self-experiential contexts, imagining new universes in errantry.”
Thin Glass by Christine Degenaars
Fernwood Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-179-1
This poetry collection “unfolds in the after-hours of a city: neon signs blinking, windows open to the street, sidewalks slick with rain.”
Autumn House Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781637681107
“Rooted in the tradition of the road trip narrative,” this poetry collection “reimagines the American epic through the lens of a contemporary woman’s journey.”
Book*hug Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669450
In this poetry collection, MacPherson “unpacks the impossible weight of gendered expectations and strips back limiting definitions consistently thrust upon women.”
Invited to the Feast by Bonnie Naradzay
Slant Books | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781639822058
The poems in this collection “immerse the reader in the experience of interactive poetry classes, laments for mentors and family members who have gone, and far-flung travels.”
Mother, Daughter, Augur by Mary Simmons
June Road Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9874328-7-7
This debut poetry collection “brings together found elements from nature, folklore, mythology, ballet, and oral tradition, crafting a strange, kaleidoscopic beauty and complicating inherited definitions of femininity.”
women & roosters by Fenn Stewart
Book*hug Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669474
Stewart’s book-length poem “expertly winds its way through topics as far-reaching as climate change, nature, trail-running, settler nationalism, motherhood, love, loss, and illness.”
Word-Made World by Chee Brossy
The Word Works | October 30, 2025
ISBN: 9781944585884
According to Jennifer Elise Foerster, the poems in this collection “exude a deep respect for language, land, and cultural belonging, illuminating our ephemeral word-made worlds.”
Terms of Venery, Revised by Paula J. Lambert
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | October 31, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-44-7
According to Amy Newman, the speaker of these poems “moves through ecological collapse and the quiet devastations of ordinary life with a voice that is lyrical, sharp-edged, and deeply compassionate.”
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | October 31, 2025
ISBN: 9781962405409
“Incorporating research, interviews, memories and myth,” this poetry collection centered on working-class Buffalo “weaves a world of those who persist, even thrive, though their environment, both internal and external, may not have their best interests at heart.”
The Disinherited by Terrence Arjoon
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-39-2
In Arjoon’s debut poetry collection, “various characters people the text, from historical personages to actors in hastily paper-mache’d masks, each peeking onto stage from the wings.”
Unburying the Bones by Victoria Buitron
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-68003-446-2
The poems in this collection “bring to the fore pain made corporeal, the roots of misogyny, femicide, and the depths of matrilineality.”
Or Current Resident by Thomas Fink
Marsh Hawk Press | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-411-4
In this collection, Fink “delivers a linguistic treasure trove full of unbridled humor and subtle social commentary in poems with intricate visual configurations.”
Song of Gray by Asha Futterman
The Center for Literary Publishing | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-885635-95-2
Futterman’s debut poetry collection “offers earnest, felt relationships to race, empathy, pleasure, and nonsense.”
A Door, a Window by Burt Kimmelman
Marsh Hawk Press | November 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798990249004
According to Eric Hoffman, Kimmelman’s poems “attest to the simple majesties of being, the massive implications of the everyday.”
There Is Always a Volcano Before You by Christine Colasurdo
The Poetry Box | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-968610-06-7
In this posthumously released poetry collection, Colasurdo invites the reader to “share in her treasured memories of growing up in the 70s spending summers at Spirit Lake on the north side of Mount St. Helens, as well as the year she spent working at Harmony Falls Lodge.”
Earthly: Selected Poems by Jean Follain
Translated from the French by Andrew Seguin
The Song Cave | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9912988-5-8
In this collection featuring previously untranslated work, Follain’s poems “feel timely, as the ravages of our human-centric worldview upon plants and animals mount toward irreversibility, and as war unfolds where it has so many times before.”
Natural History by Brandon Kilbourne
Graywolf Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-367-4
In this collection, research biologist Kilbourne “illuminates the intersections between science and poetry in poems that demonstrate the wonder, curiosity, and precision required by both disciplines.”
The Jersey Slide by Danny Shot
CavanKerry Press | November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-14-7
This poetry collection is a “pugnacious, colloquial, irreverent, and unapologetically Jersey meditation on friendship, family, aging, and gentrification.”
Airlie Press | November 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950404-17-9
This archive-based book-length poem “examines the ‘real’ and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future.”
Scenes From the Planet Earth by Joseph D. Reich
Sagging Meniscus | November 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963846-50-8
This book-length poem is “playfully structured with many subdivisions and digressions,” and is “as topically pertinent and personal as it is universal and timeless.”
The End of Welcome by Nicole Alston Zdeb
Airlie Press | November 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950404-18-6
The poems in this collection “travel underground and underwater through intimate landscapes to mysteriously surface in the universal.”
Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang
Alice James Books | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949944-88-4
According to Chen Chen, in this collection Ang “refuses the deadening distances of capital, borders, and patriarchy, embracing instead the richest, queerest intimacies of uncouth body, kinky breath, and collective revolt.”
Elegies of the Earth: Selected Poems by Ahmad Shamlou
Translated from the Persian by Niloufar Talebi
World Poetry Books | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-39-0
According to Paisley Rekdal, these “formally inventive, gorgeous poems introduce English readers to a vital Iranian poet, one whose courageous poems remain as relevant today as to twentieth-century Iran.”
At the Edge: Selected Political Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Translated from the Russian by Margaree Little
Green Linden Press | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-08-8
According to Julia Nemirovskaya, the poems in this collection “don’t just reflect history; they confront it, denounce its brutality, and expose the militarism, cowardice, betrayal, and moral failure of democracies.”
Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike by John Wieners
The Song Cave | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9912988-7-2
This fiftieth-anniversary edition of Wieners’s poetry collection—now available in print for the first time since most copies were destroyed in an arson fire in 1982—features new afterwords by his friend and scholar James Dunn and Wieners’s biographer Robert Dewhurst.
Translated from the Chinese by Dong Li
Deep Vellum | November 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-405-3
Ye’s first full-length collection features “beautifully resonant metaphysical poems from a singular voice in contemporary Chinese poetry.”
Smoke Drifts: Selected Poems by Nadia Anjuman
Translated from the Persian by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
World Poetry Books | November 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-38-3
In these poems, Anjuman draws on “the lineage of Persian and Sufi writing and her life under Taliban rule, attending to love, oppression, myth, and devotion.”
#evolutionarypoems by Mihret Kebede
Translated from the Amharic by Mihret Kebede and Anna Moschovakis
Circumference Books | November 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949918-09-0
The poems in this bilingual collection “turn over hard questions about protest and power with an attention to everyday life that is woven inside political witness.”
Old Time Magic Love Song by Vidyā
Translated from the Sanskrit by Andrew Schelling
Circumference Books | November 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949918-08-3
Originally from approximately eighth-century India, these poems are “gracefully attentive to a natural world that spans the centuries with immediacy.”
Common Disaster: Poems by M. Cynthia Cheung
Acre Books | November 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946724-98-4
In her debut poetry collection, Cheung “takes a stand against the extinction of self and memory, challenging the violence of erasure.”
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | November 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-47-8
According to Paul J. Willis, in this collection Osborn “records nearly thirty years of comings and goings from an upstairs apartment in an old Victorian house beside the tracks in Santa Barbara.”
Ruins and Other Poems by Samer Abu Hawwash
Translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine
World Poetry Books | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-40-6
In this book-length poem, Abu Hawwash engages “with the archetypal Arabic qasida and its echoes in the present, set against a backdrop of exile, displacement, and genocide.”
The Slaughterhouse of Dreams by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Translated from the French by J. Bret Maney
Deep Vellum | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-411-4
This book is “rooted in a traditional Congolese form of praise poem that ties together proverbs, myths, fables, and riddles into a recitation, accompanied by music.”
Willows Wake and Walk Away by Haley Wooning
Half Mystic Press | November 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-948552-18-9
Wooning’s poetry collection asks, “What happens after the haunting ends, when the serpent finally sleeps? What does it mean to carry the weight of a heart sloughing off its innumerable dead—and, in the absence of peace, learn to love a life wild, uncanny, and wholly one’s own?”
Translated from the Greek by Brian Sneeden
World Poetry Books | November 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-41-3
This poetry collection—the second edition of Giannisi’s English-language debut—“offers a contemporary Odyssey of loss, longing, motherhood, and metamorphosis.”
The Ordering of Stars by Kersten Christianson
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | November 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-52-2
The poems in this collection “wander like scavengers of wonder, mapping the heart through seasons of absence and wistful light.”
Tell Us How to Live by Ace Boggess
Fernwood Press | November 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-174-6
In this poetry collection, Boggess finds “questions in conversations, literary works, advertisements, social-media posts, and anywhere they appear, using them as titles and responding in thought-provoking, serious, lighthearted, or often unpredictable ways.”
Mountain. Memory. Marsh. by Carol Parris Krauss
Fernwood Press | November 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-182-1
In her debut poetry collection, Krauss “embarks on a poetic journey of self-discovery, weaving together the landscapes of her life from the Appalachian foothills to the coastal marshlands.”
Indifferent Cities by Ángel García
Tupelo Press | December 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1961209329
Indifferent Cities “traverses both distance and time to reconcile the most confounding reality of family: our people, sometimes, are the people we know least.”
missing e.: Cut-up Poems from Tumblr by Simone Parker
Fernwood Press | December 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-177-7
According to Christian Wheeler, this poetry book is “a page-turning tribute to the golden age of Tumblr—infused with fresh depth and emotional clarity.”
Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery by Vera Hadzic
Anvil Press | December 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77214-252-5
The poems in this debut collection “strive to mediate the inside and the outside of the self, probing at the anxious impulses to contain oneself and, at the same time, break open.”
Insert Coin by Joshua Zelesnick
Finishing Line Press | December 6, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-88838-834-1
According to Bradley J. Fest, Insert Coin is “indelibly shaped by the atrocities committed by the United States during its interminable War on Terror while meditating on the structures that underlie that violence, including the cultural form of the video game.”
Fernwood Press | December 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-181-4
In this poetry collection, “confessional poetry, fictional characters, and lyric essay interweave in cosmic force, as the author learns what it means to be a mother.”
All We Are Given We Cannot Hold by Robert Fanning
Dzanc Books | December 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938603-50-1
According to Diane Seuss, the poems in this book “get at both the source and antidote to loneliness, to an unlocking of the soul that the rare lyric poem can articulate and forge.”
Translated from the Korean by Ed Bok Lee and Eun-Mi Yang
Black Ocean | December 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-965154-09-0
This poetry collection “pays exquisite attention to the sounds of life, attuned to the musicality of living and the unspoken poems that present themselves to those who exercise a poet’s attention.”
YesYes Books | December 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946303-10-3
Ko’s poetry collection is a “tribute to Korean diaspora, the inheritance of storytelling, and the enduring survival of lineage that is both searing and tender.”
Summer of the Oystercatchers by Bryana Joy Beaird
Fernwood Press | December 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-188-3
Beaird’s debut poetry collection “speaks to the historic and contemporary suppression of women’s experiences and the roles religion and tradition have played in perpetuating those norms.”
Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World by Patrick Swaney
YesYes Books | December 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946303-01-1
In these prose poems, “characters often navigate situations that seem built on a fundamental misunderstanding as they try to make sense of their place in a reality misaligned to their intentions.”
What’s After Making Love by Sharon Charde
Fernwood Press | December 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-183-8
According to Alison Powell, in this collection Charde “mines the depths of private grief to show how such experiences lend a kind of clarity to daily living.”
Broken Blossoms by Maryann Hurtt
Fernwood Press | December 23, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-190-6
According to Laura Pritchett, this poetry collection “considers the ability to find wholeness from broken bits, solace in grief, and sincere joy in the wondrous blossoms offered to us each day.”
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | December 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-58-4
“With narratives and lyrics of self-discovery and ecstatic intimacy, of love, loss, and public mourning,” this poetry collection “invites the reader on expeditions where motion tends toward stillness, and stillness toward a deepening.”
The Ordering of Stars by Kersten Christianson
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | December 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-52-2
This poetry collection “invites readers to follow where language leads and glimpse the good fortune hidden in the shimmer of the natural world.”
buck naked is the opposite of hate by Joe Cottonwood
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | December 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-60-7
According to Roderick Bates, in this collection Cottonwood “finds, embraces, and shares with us that bit of the sacred which is woven into the ordinary.”
Black Square Editions | December 30, 2025
ISBN: 9798986037066
According to Albert Mobilio, this collection of prose poetry “soars aloft in an audioscape of dictions—noirish deadpan, cowboy professor, surrealist graffiti, hermeneutical slang, and lonely late-night radio preaching.”
Frost Warning by Kristine Williams
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | December 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-58-4
The poems in this collection “linger in the rhythms of cooking, gardening, cleaning, marriage, and motherhood, while also opening to the changed bond with a newly widowed father.”
