Louisville, Kentucky. Sarabande Books. 2025. 104 pages.Readers will find an unlikely beauty in Lauren K. Watel’s debut prizewinning collection, unlikely because of its engagement with…
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London. Greenwich Exchange. 2024. 160 pages.In his most recent verse collection, The Shorter Poems, 1993–2023, Alamgir Hashmi (b. 1951) embraces treacherous expanses of…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2024. 248 pages.In Isabella Hammad’s short story of the Palestinian diaspora, “Mr. Cana’aan,” Haifa-born historian Jibril Tamimi explain…
London. Jantar. 2024. 101 pages.Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in early 2022, poetry from Ukraine’s frontlines has become a literary phenomenon, shaking the global read…
Dallas. Phoneme Media. 2025. 162 pages.In its trilingual presentation, Mexican author Natalia Toledo’s Carapace Dancer (El dorso del cangrejo / Deche bitoope…
New York. OR Books. 2024. 288 pages.Poet, writer, teacher, academic, editor, activist, human being, Palestinian, Gazan—Refaat Alareer (September 23, 1979–December 6, 2023) was and rem…
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…
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…