Copper Canyon Press. 2025. 80 pages.Yuki Tanaka’s collection of poetry, Chronicle of Drifting, is the next stage of Japanese poetics in the English language. Tanaka’s work is…
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Archipelago Books. 2025. 64 pages.Bosnian-born bilingual poet Selma Asotić earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Sarejevo, a city marked by the tragic Bosnia-Herzegovina… -
LSU Press. 2026. 100 pages.How should a poet organize a collection of forty-three poems? Chronologically, thematically, randomly? Loosely, tightly? Biljana D. Obradović’s new collecti… -
Whitmore Press. 2025. 104 pages.From the outset, An Inventory of Longing proffers a suite of swirling scenes: amid police cars that fret, sentient cats, galleries and cafés,… -
Illus. Rina Yoon. Artepoética. 2025. 126 pages.Nothing feels more vulnerable—more connective—than reading the writing of another; except, perhaps, relying upon emotion alone… -
Akashic Books. 2025. 88 pages.D. M. Aderibigbe’s new collection of poems, 82nd Division, chronicles history with indelible craftsmanship. “Written after” Natasha Trethewey’s… -
Sarabande Books. 2025. 120 pages.There are books of poetry and books about poetry, just like there are translated books and books about translation. Ancient Algorithms is all… -
Arrowsmith. 2025. 67 pages.Tadeusz Dąbrowski (b. 1979) has become one of Poland’s foremost poets, beginning his writing career at the turn of the mil… -
Serving House Books. 2025. 72 pages.To read The Chameleon, by Rita Signorelli-Pappas, is to flip through a book of postcards from around the world and throug… -
Yoda Press. 2025. 224 pages.Sing, Slivered Tongue is a necessary and compelling collection that brings forth a chorus of South Asian women’s voices from both homeland and dia… -
W. W. Norton. 2025. 272 pages.The Darkest Pastoral, John Kinsella’s most recent book of poetry, is a generous selection of poems dating from his earliest published book in 19… -
Bloodaxe Books. 2025. 107 pages.In the West, the idea of Indian spiritual poetry is still linked to Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali and its many translations (including Tagor… -
Sarabande Books. 2026. 89 pages.For anyone following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine for nearly four years now, the city of Bucha is one associated with brutality, atrocities, mass… -
World Poetry. 2025. 144 pages.This bilingual edition of Samer Abu Hawwash’s Ruins and Other Poems, translated by Huda J. Fakhreddine, is a godsend for an anglophone reader su… -
Gallery Press. 2025. 64 pages.Infinity Pool is the ninth poetry collection by Vona Groarke, who is often seen as one of the most important Irish poets writing today (and curr… -
Ringwood, Oklahoma. Turning Plow Press. 2025. 134 pages.Visions for the Night is the twelfth collection in Ken Hada’s expansive body of work. In it, we find moments of intros… -
Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press. 2025. 84 pages.“Arion’s Lyre,” the opening poem of Young Woman with a Cane, sets the tone of this collection. A poem rich in me… -
Wakefield, Québec. Daraja Press. 2024. 116 pages.“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” wrote Adorno in 1949. Yahia Lababidi’s new volume—the poet’s eleventh—Palestine Wai… -
Austin / Houston. Hablemos Escritoras / Literal. 2024. 105 pages.In the prologue to Isabel Zapata’s Empty Pool, Robin Myers translates Alejandro Zambra as he quotes Zapata he… -
Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 2025. 80 pages.When We Only Have the Earth, by Djibouti poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi, begins with “One Saturday i… -
El Paso. Mouthfeel Press. 2024. 120 pages.JD Pluecker is a language worker: a poet, writer, historian, translator, interpreter, artist, bookmaker, and cross-border cultural producer.… -
London. Penguin Books. 2025. 112 pages.Sometimes poetry does not just precipitate in descriptions. Jean-Michel Basquiat went beyond the obvious and layered his complex paintings, crea… -
Portland. Fonograf Editions. 2025. 72 pages.A brief look at the table of contents of Ahmad Almallah’s third book of poems alludes to what may be the cornerstones of his poetic experie… -
Anderson, South Carolina. Parlor Press. 2025. 96 pages.Written from scenes of protest, police stations, factories, dreams, courtrooms, bedrooms, etc., an unflinching, pragmatic gaze i… -
Louisville, Kentucky. Sarabande Books. 2025. 118 pages.If you are familiar with the work of German-language Romanian poet Paul Celan and find succulence in writers who weave surrealis…