The organization of the Blood Vinyls as tracks, with each track as a theme, illuminates these soulful, gorgeous, intelligently-crafted poems, capturing the black South and womanhood so intimately, and
The poems in "The Story of Ash" range over a variety of concerns from the tawdry to the sublime, all the while exploring desire and love and loss. The poems are largely urban, but the imager
Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos, edited by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton, is a collection of the most subversive, gritty, moving, and courageous writing to come out of the U.S. queer com
In these extraordinary new poems, Kelle Groom rejects consolation in favor of an expanding definition of love. Groom, who has published in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetr
Poetry. "There is an extraordinary lightness to this collection of poems—it is as if they are floating just above the surface of the earth, or in dream, as they celebrate love, marriage, family, frien
Poetry. "These cool, hot poems about women and girls in danger and on the prowl, coming of age and being of age, are full ofstartling detail and vivid setting. Meitner's range, wit, compassion and her
Poetry. "Michael Hettich's poems are like grace, like gifts, like the natural world made Technicolor, like Technicolor making the natural world. He is a master of the simile, and in Like Happiness, he
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Winner of the 2009 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. "BATHSHEBA TRANSATLANTIC is a fascinating testimony from someone who's lived in modern Israel, the real physical dangers of t
Poetry. THE DIAMOND DOG, Diane Wakoski's nineteenth collection, calls into being a world where the scientific and the mytho-poetic interact and combine. Here, in her first collection of entirely new w
Poetry. "Kelle Groom's poems are like underwater songs, sung from the submerged continent of the inner life, the life we don't often expose to the outer world, the one we don't speak of. They have the
Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Anhinga Prize for Poetry selected by Sheryl St. Germain. Open this book up anywhere and you'll find a poem of fierce and uncompromising energy and insight, a poem that doesn
Poetry. "What could it mean to be gentle in an era of ill omen and terror? Ask Jesus or Mahatma Gandhi. Ask the omni-genius da Vinci, of whom Keith Ratzlaff writes, 'In his last great studies / Leonar
Poetry. "Ted Kooser was moving all his books from his shed to his new library, and in the process he was dipping into them. 'I've been coming up with a list of good bird poems,' he e-mailed. 'Can you
Poetry. "Approaching eighty, Robert Dana, in THE OTHER, seems younger and more vigorous than ever. There are laments here, certainly, like the touching poem about his friend and fellow writer Donald J
Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. "Engaged by contemporary American life at every level, from the down-and-out to the urban sublime, the poems in Kenneth Hart's UH OH TIME have at t
In Known by Salt, Tina Mozelle Braziel searches for home in the trailer park where she grew up and in the house she and her husband built by hand. Aware that her homes and life fall short of social no
"Winner of the 2017 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize, selected by Eduardo C. Corral, 'Arsonist' is a shape-shifter of a book, a book that leaves the reader with an existential 'shivering', yet, it is on
"The Church in the Plains" tells the story of a German Lutheran farming community whose members immigrated to Ohio in the 1830s. These poems focus on the community's relationship with the ch