Poetry / American / General

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OCTOBERS

OCTOBERS

Poems

Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

That Ship Has Sailed

That Ship Has Sailed

Poems that Zoom In on the Mysterious and Transformative Nature of Expression

Hello I Must Be Going

Hello I Must Be Going

Poems

Ekphrastic, Meditative Poems from a Writer with Astonishing Range

Central Air

Central Air

Poems

Humorous Poetry with a Deep Core of Seriousness

Calling from the Scaffold

Calling from the Scaffold

Poems

Narrative Poems that Embody the Complexity of Connection and Disconnection

Other Worlds

Other Worlds

Poems that Explore the Dissonance and Delights of Our Current Moment

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Winner of the 2020 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

The Morning Line

The Morning Line

Poems

A Profound New Collection from the Editor of the Best American Poetry Series

Be Holding

Be Holding

A Poem

A New Poem from the Author of The Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and The Book of Delights

Bring Now the Angels

Bring Now the Angels

Poems
This collection juxtaposes text from Google Search autocomplete with the intimate language of prayer. Corporate jargon coexists with the incantatory and ancient ghazal form. Ahmed’s second book of poetry explores the terrain of loss—of a beloved family member, of human dignity and potential, of the earth as it ...
Bonfire Opera

Bonfire Opera

Poems
Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. ...
In My Unknowing

In My Unknowing

Poems
In his new poetry collection, Chard deNiord explores the paradoxical nature of unknowing. I WEPT WITH JOY ABOVE THE RIVER I wept with joy above the river.I wept with sorrow above the river.My tears were clear, both sweet and bitter.One leaf cried out to another,“Empty me ...
Imperial Liquor

Imperial Liquor

Poems
Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. Part remembrance, part swan song for the Compton, California of the 1980...
The Woman in the Corner

The Woman in the Corner

Poems
The Woman in the Corner keenly observes and gives voice to the ambiguities and astonishments that we often turn away from—in human relationships and in our own unruly hearts. In poems that speak fearlessly about sex and grief, mothers and daughters, and friendships and marriage, Krygowski examines the beauty ...
The Now

The Now

Poems

Poems that Consider the Disappearance of Language in an Age of Digital Communication

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