Richard-Yves Sitoski, Wait, What?
Wait, What? is a spare book of rigorously chosen words and white space.
April is Poetry Month
Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green
Breaching borders and breaking boundaries, Xanax Cowboy is as much a play (written and directed by Green) as a poem — a performance through acts and actions.
I Have Forsaken Heaven & Earth, but Never Have I Forsaken You by Leilei Chen
The book includes seventy poems translated from MA Hui’s rewriting of Tsangyang Gyatso’s poetry.
A Fierce and Tumultuous Joy by David Adams Richards
In this collection of deeply personal poetry, David Adams Richards offers readers both his searing observations of and profound sympathy for those he writes of, be they his own family or animals.
Wonder-Work: Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
An unusual poet from the Baroque period meets 21st century poet-translators in this exceptional book.
Sapphire and the Hollow Bone by Diana Hayes
. . . though some of the poems allude to personal losses, many of the phrases allow readers to make their own connections.
Best Books of 2023: Poetry
Here are the titles that our team of reviewers judged the “Best Books of Poetry” of 2023.
Beast Body Epic by Amanda Earl
“Beast Body Epic is for anyone who’s circled the drain or knows someone who has. The book is about having the shit kicked out of you & surviving.”
People You Know, Places You’ve Been by Hana Shafi
The latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the unlikely connections we make to the people and places we encounter.
The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird
Brandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection, The All + Flesh, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands.
Seas Move Away by Joanne Leow
Joanne Leow’s Seas Move Away is a book that was over two decades in the making. And indeed, this slim volume has the weighty feel of much careful self-examination and reflection.
Fragments: A Poetry Mosaic by Joyce Goodwin
A poetry collection created from fragmented memories; a lifetime of writing. These poems show a fractured and fragile planet that is still a place of wonder and beauty.
Here Was by John Portelli
Here Was reflects Portelli’s nomadic adventures and travels in three different continents from Ramallah to Bologna, from Toronto to Rabat, from Lisbon to Istanbul. A gripping collection that mixes existential elements with the call for social justice, and the recollections of gone by days.
The End is in the Middle: MAD fold-in poems by Daniel Scott Tysdal
Taking inspiration from Al Jaffee’s illustrated fold-ins in MAD magazine, Tysdal explores living with mental illness through a new kind of poetry: the fold-in poem.
Among the Untamed by dee Hobsbawm-Smith
By turns angry, powerful, visceral, evocative, and ultimately hopeful, this modern retelling of Joan of Arc in linked poems casts her as a prairie-born Jeanne Dark.
