Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan

A hybrid new collection from the author of Three Poems (winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard Prize)—about London, new motherhood, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now.

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Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley

A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of “quiet” in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.

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Promises of Gold by José Olivarez, translated by David Ruano

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, and so on. But even though the path to love is not easy, it is a path worth treading.

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Couplets by Maggie Millner

A dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone.

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Tanya by Brenda Shaughnessy

The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss.

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Side Notes from the Archivist by Anastacia-Renee

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image—a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the expansiveness of Black femme lives.

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No Sweet Without Brine by Cynthia Manick

Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.

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Fever of Unknown Origin by Campbell McGrath

A collection of profound and piercing poems from a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize about navigating the modern world in search of beauty that will endure.

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Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews

A powerful collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class and its failures for those rendered invisible by it.

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Console by Colin Channer

The second collection by “one of the most significant literary figures in the Caribbean” (The Globe and Mail).

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Plantains and Our Becoming by Melania Luisa Marte

A powerful poetry collection in the vein of BLACK GIRL CALL HOME and IF THEY COME FOR US, about identity, culture, home and belonging.

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Related: Listen to Melania talk on the podcast about her collection Plantains and Our Becoming but also about poetry, and how to read it.

Pig by Sam Sax

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.

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School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson

A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I.

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