Boston. Black Ocean. 2024. 80 pages.Amid the endless expanses of our systems, the texts in Just Like are thought experiments that seem to strive restlessly toward decentraliz…
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Tehran. Sokhan. 2023. 1031 pages.In an age when poetic traditions often splinter between innovation and preservation, Mohammad Afshin Vafaie’s anthology One Hundred Poems from The…
Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith. 2024. 199 pages.Glyn Maxwell’s New and Selected Poems brings together over three decades of committed creativity. Within its pages readers…
New York. Nightboat Books. 2024. 92 pages.Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of four previous books of poetry as well as three limited-edition chapbooks. She has also published essays an…
New York. World Poetry Books. 2024. 198 pages.Jazra Khaleed’s second edition of The Light That Burns Us delivers a poetry of protest—raw, unrelenting, and necessary. Translat…
Calcutta. Seagull Books. 2024. 80 pages.Born in 1977, Krzysztof Siwczyk is one of the young writers associated with a new era in Polish verse who made their poetic debuts shortly afte…
New Orleans. Diálogos Books. 2024. 115 pages.My Favorite Monster and Other Poems is a captivating collection of poetry by Luis Alberto de Cuenca (b. 1950, Madrid), one o…
New York. Nightboat Books. 2024. 80 pages.Aditi Machado’s new collection rekindled the enthusiasm I had felt about Some Beheadings (2017) and Emporium (2020), her fi…
Eugene, Oregon. Resource. 2024. 188 pages.In Secular Revelations, Patrick McGee completes his trilogy, following Archival Resurrections and Cinematic Revolutions, respective…
New York. NYRB Poets. 2024. 176 pages.Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s most prominent living writers. For forty years, he’s published scores of poems, novels, and essays, but it’…
Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. 2024. 96 pages.“If there’s a temple beyond glands and bone / for all that goes blank in a lifetime, maybe it resides in the body of…
Dallas. Phoneme Media / Deep Vellum. 2024. 225 pages.“In the camp’s kindergarten / I asked each child to draw something missing from this world,” a poem begins in this new anthology o…
Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2024. 116 pages.Yuliya Musakovska is one of many Ukrainian poets whose work has been profoundly affected by the war that Russia launched agai…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2025. 104 pages.Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Kitchen Hymns is a beautiful meditation on the power…
Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Eulalia Books. 2024. 218 pages.With Guerilla Blooms, Chilean poet Daniela Catrileo, bilingual in Spanish and Mapudungun, creates a poe…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 144 pages. In Li-Young Lee’s latest collection, The Invention of the Darling, the seminal poet grants us both familiarity and departure from his previou…
West Caldwell, New Jersey. Terrapin Books. 2024. 94 pages. How wonderful to discover a collection of poems based on my native habitat! I feel I’ve walked Hayden Saunier’s paths, seen…
New York. World Poetry Books. 2024. 40 pages. Ibrahim Nasrallah’s recent chapbook collection of poems, translated from Arabic, explores erasure as both a poetic technique and lived e…
Manchester, UK. Carcanet Press. 2024. 122 pages. In Oksana Maksymchuk’s Still City, war and everyday life collide, causing a dramatic shift in perspective about what matters and what…
Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 2024. 256 pages. Ilan Stavans’s selections from seven of Juan Gelman’s collections, originally published between 1982 and 2001, showcase…
Frankfort, Kentucky. Broadstone Books. 2024. 88 pages. From the pun of the title and the triptych cover photograph, Tim Hunt’s Western Where challenges our nostalgia and the stories…
Granada. Sonámbulos Ediciones. 2023. 176 pages. All poetry anthologies offer readers a panorama of a writer’s life work as well as a view of the different creative stages through whi…
London. Bloodaxe Books. 2024. 160 pages. The title of a poem or a poetry collection often sets up a stage for expectations. Shadow Reader, by Imtiaz Dharker, the recipient of the Que…
Boston. Black Ocean. 2024. 95 pages. Originally published in Spanish in 2015, Valeria Meiller’s The Odd Month is a stunning volume of prose poetry constructed of a multilayered world…
Bloomington, Indiana. Slavica. 2023. 118 pages. Since his nomination for Poland’s Nike Award in 1997, poet Wojciech Wencel has seen acclaim, disappointment, and resurgence in h…