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The Grief of a Happy Life

By Christopher Howell

In Christopher Howell’s twelfth collection of poems, his gifts for elegy, humor, and lyricism are on full display. The Grief of a Happy Life explores the interplay between memory and imagination, celebrating the ways that...

Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets

An Anthology

By Wilt L. Idema

This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspired by their daily life and reflections, provide fascinating insights into the experiences and...

Thieve

By Joe Wilkins

Thieve is a pointed, political book, though the politics here are local, particular, physically felt. The central sequence of poems—subtitled “Poem against the Crumbling of the Republic”—was written in direct response to the poet’s own...

Agnostic

Poems

By Christopher Buckley

Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley’s new collection. A god that may or may not be there as well as politics,...

Hair of the Dog

An Anthology

By Christopher Howell

Hair of the Dog, edited by poet Christopher Howell, is the second installment of The Acme Poem Company’s Zodiac Poetry Anthology Series. Hair of the Dog contains work collected from regional and national poets alike,...

Pray to the Empty Wells

By Iryna Shuvalova. Translated by Olena Jennings

Pray to the Empty Wells is a bilingual collection of poems by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian author Iryna Shuvalova. The forty-four poems reflect the central section of Shuvalova’s forthcoming book of Ukrainian-language poems of the same...

The Lord of Everywhere

By John Hodgen

The poems in The Lord of Everywhere are about strength and courage and the will to hold on, about home and homelessness, and the tension that floats like Emily’s feather between knowing what home means...

The Time Machine

By Laura Kasischke

The Time Machine is Laura Kasischke’s eleventh book of poetry. The Time Machine offers us surreal and transformative explorations of maternity, mortality, and memory. In the opening poem, Laura tells us: “This is what it...

From Turtle Island to Gaza

By David Groulx

With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabee writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding of colonial pasts and presents.

Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

By Jonathan Locke Hart

Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry was marked 28...

Long Day

Poems

By Peter Sears

The poems in this volume bring us a taste of Peter Sears’ unique range of sensibility. Entertaining, somberly hilarious, exquisite and filled with refreshment, these are poems for all seasons, reasons, purposes, and tastes. This...

The Knowable Emotions

Poems

By Heikki Huotari

Heikki Huotari’s poems oscillate between intense moments of scientific clarity and absurdist pirouettes that remind us that, while the “world” may be a dance of entropic chaos screened by a thin veneer of rational apology,...

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today

By Melissa Kwasny

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven series—one of linked prose poems called “Another Letter to the Soul” and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and...

Smokes

By Yuri Izdryk. Translated by Roman Ivashkiv and Erin Moure

Yuri Izdryk’s poetry explodes with existential contemplations and addresses regarding love, identity, nature, society, and even God. All his poems operate with an indefatigable play with language that encompasses incessant punning rhymes, Joycean multilingual puns,...

Sweetclover

By Shann Ray

Grounded in the physical while asking metaphysical questions, the poems in Sweetclover detail love, wilderness, fracture, and fusion. They speak of wildflowers, the slant of a collarbone, the flight feathers of predatory birds, and the...

Radiation King

By Jason Gray

Ten years in the making, Radiation King, the second full-length collection by poet Jason Gray, takes us to the beginning and the possible futures of the atomic world we created at the start of the...

Pantheon

By Philip Memmer

Philip Memmer’s Pantheon is a collection of dramatic monologues written from the perspectives of imaginary gods. But these are not the usual mythological suspects: the voices here include such unlikely deities as the God of...

American Loneliness

By Roy Bentley

American Loneliness is peopled with the famous and the not-so-famous. It is a book tenanted by the Wright Brothers and Nettie Potter Bentley, Joseph Kennedy and James Brown and Jay Gatsby. America, as presented, bests...

What We Are, When We Are

Kaj smo, ko smo

By Cvetka Lipuš. Translated by Tom Priestly

Working within a postmodern style, this rhythmic and melodious collection of poems originally written in Slovenian by Cvetka Lipuš and translated here by Tom Priestly, blend the real with the surreal, dull urban lives with...

Vagrants & Accidentals

By Kevin Craft

Vagrants & Accidentals, the second full-length collection from poet Kevin Craft, is part vade mecum, part songbook, whose taut lines and adaptable stanzas traffic in the personal effects of emigration and estrangement, exile and return....