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Throughout Capricorn in Flux, Glaser’s eleventh book of poetry, we hear that same voice, vivid and precise and crackling with verve and wit. To borrow a line from Robert Lowell, he is still “free-lancing out along the razor’s edge.” But this time, the sprightliness is shadowed by a ...

Translated by Nathan Fields The selected poetry of Milan Děžinský, translated by Nathan Fields, includes many poems previously not published in English by the celebrated Czech poet.

Included in LitHub’s Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026Ms. Magazine Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026 The poems in with snow pouring southward past the window turn with and for relatives and beloveds across seas and oceans, continents and nations, languages and histories. In this collection, public and personal archives work with ...

Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book’s speaker calls on an intertextual constellation of artists as they attempt to wade through agoraphobia, parse out their relationship with God, and navigate falling in love. Overall, the ...

Fire is both destructive and regenerative; at times vengeful, at others cleansing. The first mention of fire in Genesis comes after Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden. In Greek mythology, Prometheus steals fire from the gods for humankind. Fire becomes metaphorically layered—as knowledge, as desire, as anger. The ...

Included in LitHub’s Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026Steeplechase explores multiple landscapes, including Mississippi and its many church steeples; countries known and unknown; cities and inhabitants both aspirational and lost. Its voice is humorous, bewildered, disillusioned, hopeful. The book’s temporal setting is the two years of extra life granted ...

Included in LitHub’s Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026 Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless ...

The world is burning with fire and hatred, but at the same time it is filled with love and incredible beauty. The poems in Burn tango with why the world is so beautiful and terrible at the same time. Hamby asserts that everything is a mess—how do we walk ...

Finalist, 2026 PEN Open Book AwardFinalist for the 2026 Nossrat Yassini Poetry PrizeLonglist, 2026 Julie Suk AwardFeatured in Poetry Daily‘s Best Poems of 2025Winner, 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry Part elegy, part poetry of witness, and part poetry of exile, No Rhododendron is a lament to the poet-speaker’s father and fatherland ...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2025Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, while interrogating the past for clues that might explain why, as the speaker bemoans, “...

No Longer at This Address explores place and the psychology of leaving through the inflammatory lens of the American West. The collection uses the lyric-narrative mode to complicate notions of rootedness and address the ephemerality of where one’s from. The poems visit bison ranches in the Rocky Mountains, converse ...

A California Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2025Finalist for the 2026 Norma Farber First Book PrizeFinalist for the 2026 Balcones Prize for Poetry What God in the Kingdom of Bastards is a poetic exploration of grief, memory, Blackness, and the haunting legacy of familial trauma by way of colonialism, told ...

A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds’s Satan Says in a Gorgeous Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds’s Poetry, All Poetry Enthusiasts, and Collectors Alike Ms. Magazine Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026 This 45th anniversary hardcover deluxe edition of the bestselling debut collection of poetry by Sharon Olds ...

Winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeFinalist for the 2026 Norma Farber First Book Prize A one-of-a-kind debut that asks what we owe those we love, The Same Man is an aching chronicle of the early days of parenthood and the wounds of the past. Haunted by memory and powered ...

Shortlist, 2026 Indiana Author Awards Rebecca Lehmann’s The Sweating Sickness contains wide-ranging topics—the suicide of an abusive ex, parenting young children, fairy tales, reproductive rights, domestic violence, ghost stories, ancient myth—all set to the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both personal and political, these poems interrogate how we ...