San Francisco. City Lights. 2022. 126 pages
WHEN A PERSON chooses to read poetry, it can be for a multitude of reasons, but many of them revolve around a desire to connect with…
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Kraków. Editions Austeria. 2022. 68 pages. KRZYSZTOF SIWCZYK IS known for his philosophical poetry that yields long lines reasoning out the malaise of adulting, the proble…
Cheshire, Massachusetts. MadHat Press. 2022. 185 pages. IRINA MASHINSKI IS one of the most notable contemporary Russian American translators and poets. While she usually compose…
Brooklyn. Black Spruce Press. 2022. 68 pages. MICHAEL JENNINGS’S FIFTEENTH collection of poems is a lyrical triumph. His satisfying lines sing with memory, endured longing, and…
Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press. 2021. 120 pages. GEORGE KALOGERIS’S new poetry collection, Winthropos (2021), is a compelling study of death that will re…
Makhanda, South Africa. Deep South. 2022. 90 pages. JIM PASCUAL AGUSTIN’S Bloodred Dragonflies is a stunning, elegiac collection that showcases Agustin’s writing across…
Illus. Natalia Gurovich. Mexico City. Pluralia Ediciones e Impresiones. 2021. 160 pages. TO PUBLISH POETRY written in endangered Indigenous languages not only preserves the lang…
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 2022. 85 pages. THE AUTHOR OF eight poetry collections, including Ozone Journal, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016, and several award-…
Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2022. 162 pages. KRYSTUNA DĄBROWSKA (b. 1979) has published five volumes of poetry and won prestigious prizes, including the Kościelski P…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2022. 112 pages. JOSEPH BRODSKY SAID somewhere that “poetry is what every language hopes to become.” This means that poetry is aspirational at the level of la…
Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2022. 146 pages. RECENTLY I FOUND myself way high up in the hills of Berkeley—at the outermost lip of Tilden Park, when the blue-gray dusk turned all…
Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 2022. 124 pages. ON THE OPENING PAGE of her newest collection, Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse, Iranian-born poet Sholeh W…
Philadelphia. Paul Dry Books. 2022. 69 pages. A little over halfway through Boris Dralyuk’s new collection of poems, in one of its many sonnets, the reader meets a beguiling but familiar image:…
Makhanda, South Africa. Deep South. 2021. 67 pages. Dimakatso Sedite’s marvelous debut, Yellow Shade, opens with the poem “Middle-town,” a meditation on the speaker’s origins in a town…
Trenton, New Jersey. Africa World Press. 2021. 69 pages. IN I Come from a Country, Tijan M. Sallah brings to the façade a deep sense of purpose and a richness of heart…
Denver. Wisdom Body Collective. 2021. 78 pages. WISDOM BODY COLLECTIVE has released an anthology of thirty-three poems and letters addressing themes Diane di Prima outlined half a ce…
Sydney. Giramondo. 2022. 96 pages. BEFORE OPENING THIS book, I kept picturing Leonardo DiCaprio fending off a lunging set of teeth and claws, alone in a North American forest. W…
Cardigan, Wales. Parthian. 2022. 308 pages. TEMPO: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry is an excellent bilingual survey of current Italian poetry’s diversity…
Cambridge, UK. Pippa Rann Books & Media. 2021. 176 pages. SUDEEP SEN IS a prolific poet, translator, and editor of influential anthologies. His newest work, Anthropocene…
New York. Knopf. 2022. 286 pages. AT THE CORE of A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems, is a double (external/internal) exile that causes the poet to periodica…
New York. Penguin. 2022. 128 pages. TIME IS A MOTHER is Ocean Vuong’s second poetry collection and his first book since 2019, when the award-winning novel …
Manchester, UK. Carcanet Press. 2022. 152 pages. SECULAR ATHEISTS OR adherents to faiths other than Christianity who admire fine poetry should not avoid reading John F. Deane’s…
Sandpoint, Idaho. Lost Horse Press. 2021. 206 pages. UKRAINIAN POET Natalka Bilotserkivets had her first two collections of poems published in the 1970s, although she started wr…
Waratah, Australia. Puncher & Wattmann. 2021. 98 pages. FIFTEENERS IS THE latest stunning installment in this storied poet’s fearless oeuvre, and Jordie Albiston’s book of strang…
London. Seagull Books. 2021. 124 pages. ALAIN MABANCKOU, a native of the Congo and a longtime professor at UCLA, is one of the world’s leading francophone authors. I…