American poetry - 21st century

  • Muscadine

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    A. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grape’s “thick … [more below]

    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Avant, A. H. Jerriod
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 81
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 195424570X
    • Language: English
  • Florida Man: Poems, Revisited

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    The Florida Man meme lodged itself into the national consciousness through viral headlines like “Florida man threw live gator in Wendy’s drive-thru window.” But there’s much more to the meme than a pu

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    • Author: Gillespie, Tyler
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: March 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 194168131X
    • Language: English
  • Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes

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    What is illusion-a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem–the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”?

    Nicky Beer’s latest collection of poems is a labyrinthine a

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    • Author: Beer, Nicky
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 157131539X
    • Language: English
  • Winter Roses After Fall

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    From the authors of The New York Times bestsellers Empty Bottles Full of Stories and Falling Toward the Moon comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose.

    There’s a harshness in the air

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    • Author: Sin, R. H.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 26 2021
    • ISBN10: 1524867896
    • Language: English
  • Dor

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    “You must write a self/ out of waiting/ to speak” asserts Alina Ștefănescu’s Dor and oh, what a prismatic, many-headed self has been written into existence within these pages. In her stunnin

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    • Author: Stefanescu, Alina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 22 2021
    • ISBN10: 0578915782
    • Language: English
  • Today in the Taxi

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    Sean Singer’s radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman’s, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive… I love i… [more below]

    • Author: Singer, Sean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: April 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1946482692
    • Language: English
  • Floaters: Poems

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    Mart? Espada is a poet who “stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness,” says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the

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    • Author: Espada, Martín
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 1324021810
    • Language: English
  • Some Things I Still Can’t Tell You: Poems

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his “Army For Good,” comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Sti[more below]

    • Author: Collins, Misha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 12 2021
    • ISBN10: 1524870544
    • Language: English
  • Balladz

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    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning–by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called “a poet for these times, a powerful woman who w[more below]

    • Author: Olds, Sharon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1524711616
    • Language: English
  • Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems

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    This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community.

    In Bad Mexican, Bad American, the minimalist, working-class aesthet

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    • Author: Hernandez Diaz, Jose
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 82
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1946724734
    • Language: English
  • The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

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    Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry

    “The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton–both the woman and her poetry–is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently

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    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Clifton, Lucille
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 720
    • Publish Date: August 28 2012
    • ISBN10: 1934414905
    • Language: English
  • The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: Latinext

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    A BreakBeat Poets anthology that opposes silence and re-mixes the soundtrack of the Latinx diaspora across diverse poetic traditions.

    • Series: Breakbeat Poets
    • Author: Chavez, Felicia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: April 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 1642591297
    • Language: English
  • Each Luminous Thing: Poems

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    From the boreal woods of Vermont to the coastal canyons of Southern California, Stacie Cassarino’s highly anticipated second collection of poetry maps the parallel tracks of walking through shifting t… [more below]

    • Author: Cassarino, Stacie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0892556013
    • Language: English
  • Death Prefers the Minor Keys

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    In his twentieth book, most of which was first composed on the backs of medical forms while on break as a third-shift medical technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose sequence r[more below]

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Dougherty, Sean Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 1960145061
    • Language: English
  • Sho

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    2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE

    2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY

    Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming s

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    • Author: Kearney, Douglas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 1950268152
    • Language: English
  • To Make Monsters Out of Girls

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    “What happens when the man of your dreams turns out to be a nightmare with sharp teeth and claws?”

    Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry, amanda lovelace presents her new illustrat

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    • Author: Lovelace, Amanda
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: September 18 2018
    • ISBN10: 1449494269
    • Language: English
  • We Hope This Reaches You in Time

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    A revised and expanded paperback edition of We Hope This Reaches You in Time by Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin with all-new bonus material from the authors.

    Ideas, poetry, and prose from bestsellin

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    • Author: Sin, R. H.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: January 14 2020
    • ISBN10: 1524855766
    • Language: English
  • Dispatch: Poems

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    Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to, revises, and thinks adjacent to the news of racial/gendered violence in the US, from the nineteenth… [more below]

    • Author: Awkward-Rich, Cameron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: December 10 2019
    • ISBN10: 0892555033
    • Language: English
  • Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

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    A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Poetry

    A CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry

    A Bustle Best Book of 2020

    A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020

    “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse wri

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    • Author: Greathouse, Torrin A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: December 22 2020
    • ISBN10: 1571315276
    • Language: English
  • Come Closer and Listen: New Poems

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    An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic

    Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our mo

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    • Author: Simic, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 14 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062908472
    • Language: English
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