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As down to earth as a donut and funnier than should be allowed- Lovers of the Deep-Fried Circle is equal parts chapbook, hug from your most supportive friend, and brunch with your favorite new Latinx poet. Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a shining light in a grim world." - Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Baruch Porras-Hernandez, long-time luminary of the Bay Area literary and performance worlds, offers up an urgent and searing inaugural collection. The work in I Miss You, Delicate sizzles and coddles and thots and grieves its way toward Bethlehem. With deft attention to voice and narrative, to the body and its shortcomings, to geography and history, this panoply of voices from past and present is not to be missed." - sam sax

In the lush and dream-like world of Jesse Rice-Evan's The Uninhabitable, the conventional narrative of the body gives way to a more porous landscape where pain becomes a stream, fur, fang, mammal, blossom, anemone and sting..." - from Muriel Leung's cover blurb

Zachary Ozma's Black Dog Drinking from an Outdoor Pool creates its own shifting, slippery, sticky language to grapple with family history, embodiment, and trauma. Black Dog is for everyone who grapples with being thrust into a story not of their own creation and trying to make something transformative from its broken parts. - Lauren Levin

In her second poetry collection Anyone Will Tell You, Wendy Chin-Tanner explores and subverts form as an expression of the relationships between gender and identity, parent and child, self and other, humanity and the environment, and Earth and the cosmos. Distillation, fluidity, elision, and musicality are all hallmarks of this collection, which relies on the rhythm of the English language to expand the possibilities of meaning from line to li...

Savannah Sipple's debut is proof of a woman rising-up from the strung-out, Christ-haunted carcinogens and violences of a land stripped of its coal, up fromnine-hours on her feet followed by the extra work back home of picking gravel out of pinto beans, up from a return visit to the honey-suckle sweetness of goodchurch folks who whisper 'backslider' and 'quare.' Purging shame with every line, these poems love the Kentucky from which they rise a...

Revelations is a captivating collection of poetry and literary translations about faith, doubt, and chaos. Ruben Quesada's poems are simultaneously wondrous and contemplative, witnessing trauma of both public and private lives that have been made and unmade at the hands of the Information Age.

In Midnight in a Perfect World, Collin Kelley navigates the moody landscapes of desire, travels the dark edge of Eros in the 21st century of love, charting his passage in language sometimes brutal, sometimes lyrical, often both at once. And if that perfect world all lovers seek remains elusive, here we break the boundaries of the familiar and arrive in a place where we can breathe the twilight air and step, almost, into the dream of it, oursel...

There is no better landing place for our grief, our love, and our hopes for a better tomorrow than poems. They vibrate with an urgency that defies the dead and enlivens the future. But Othered is more than a collection of poetry, it is proof positive that becoming one's true self is still the most revolutionary act that any human being can undertake. Randi M. Romo shows us how it's done-with courage, great care, and community." - JAMES LECESNE...

Nickole Brown writes in a voice that is simultaneously vernacular and lyrical. It is a voice thick with the humidity and whirring cicadas of Kentucky, but the poems are dangerous, smelling of the crisp cucumber scent of a copperhead about to strike. Epistolary in nature, and with a novel's arc, Sister is a story that begins with a teen giving birth to a baby girl-the narrator-during a tornado, and in some ways, that tornado never ends.In the h...

In Corporal Muse, poet Allison E. Joseph pulls back the curtain on her writing process, searching for (and finding) The Muse in unexpected places. These are poems of love and praise. They are time machine and magic spell. Corporal Muse is a cross-section of poetic technique so strong it conjures The Muse to wherever the reader holds this book.

[W]hat does it mean to crave the land?' Stephen S. Mills asks in this ambitious book of poems that imbricates 18th- and 21st-century narratives, domestic tension and national strife, profligate sex and the accountability of gay marriage, forms of incarceration and suicide by proxy. In these poems, New England, Texas, Florida, Indiana, and New York cohere into a collective land that produces personal melancholia, an 'excess of black bile.' Mill...

Bushra Rehman's debut collection singes in its interrogation of the American dream while capturing the lives of a neighborhood in transition. These sly, adept poems work through circumstances under threat with audacity, humor, and wonder. Rehman offers a new kind of fairy tale, surreal yet rooted in harsh, ugly modern realities. Simply and profoundly, her book is a love poem for Muslim girls, Queens, and immigrants making sense of their foreig...

Eric Tran's Revisions revises more than words. These poems, with their restless forms and lexicons, needle themselves through the psyche, they suture and sear, harboring speakers of myriad aftermaths. True to a physician's gaze, these poems, in their unflinching obsession with the renewal and failure of bodies, both tender and visceral at once, plant Eric Tran firmly in the long tradition of healer-wordsmiths, right alongside William Carlos Wi...

I trust Luther Hughes with the body. In Touched, Hughes is careful with it, he handles the body as deliberate and tender as one would a poem. The bodies here, be they black, queer, animal, living, or recovering, are given an authority only possible in poems, and only executed right in the handles of a capable poem. Hughes is more than capable though. Here is the first announcement of a bad one, y'all. And I mean black people bad. Good bad. Bad...

Subject to Change is an anthology celebrating the work of five poets who are unapologetically trans: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Christopher Soto, beyza ozer, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and Kay Ulanday Barrett. Featuring poetry and interviews, this collection is a testament to the power of trans poets speaking to one another-about family, race, class, disability, religion, and the body. This anthology includes a range of trans experiences and poetics...

Amir Rabiyah is a magician who has tasted salt of the creation story's sea. The cleaving of human to spirit found in Prayers for My 17th Chromosome is a blood tangle that will kiss your cells till you sweat / constellations. Rabiyah reminds their reader that to exist in between boxes of national belongings, migrations, queer kinships, and disability is not to swallow war. Rather, in these verses, complications find respite in one another, [bec...

There are not many truly unusual experiences, there are uniquely precise explications of experiences. These precise explications are rare, but The Carnival of Affection offers them. These poems open windows into experience: A father raises a gay son laconically, evenhandedly, and their early time together resonates for decades. An early riser sifts the secret currents of his neighborhood. The mind and body watch each other in the intimate proc...

To be clear, Franny Choi's poetry has the extraordinary ability to solder with tender focus one moment, then rage like electrical fire in the next. In Death by Sex Machine, where fem-surrogate cyborgs of film and manga are impetus for understanding personal suppression of language, Choi gives us poems that are exquisitely uncomfortable with what is said and what is not said. As in the uncanny valley, where we are spooked by machines being a bi...

Poetry must be honest and precise, yes-but it must also dare us to see what we are invited not to see and say what seems easier not to say. In Killing Summer, Sarah Browning writes what is difficult but essential in a time when buffoonery in our nation's highest office tempts us to shake our heads and close our eyes. Perhaps the first step in asserting the need for a new paradigm is finding the words that reveal the brokenness of the current o...