Toronto. Trace Press. 2025. 146 pages.Perhaps the seminal diasporic experience is visiting home after quite some time away and having to fake a laugh to hide that you do not understan…
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Brookline, Masschusetts. Zephyr Press. 2025. 120 pages.At the heart of Yau Ching’s for now I am sitting here growing transparent lies the po… -
New York. New Directions. 2025. 96 pages.Aharon Shabtai is one of the most recognized living Israeli poets and perhaps the oldest. Born in 1939, almost a decade before the founding of… -
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… -
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…