Wonder and joy are prevalent throughout Clint Smith’s Above Ground, with odes to his children’s quirks and the idiosyncrasies of child rearing, including first smiles and hiccups.
By employing two forms, the couplet and the prose poem, Maggie Millner suggests that within uncertainty, there is room for personal complexity.
In both English and Spanish, José Olivarez’s poems explore the sides of love that pop songs never could—the gritty, painful parts that everyone sweeps under the rug.
Charif Shanahan’s words are moving and muscular, with each line pulsating with wisely crafted feeling and thought.
Jane Wong’s poetry collection reckons with the contrast between the relative abundance in her life and the false promises of the American dream for herself and her parents.
Franny Choi’s collection will awaken and inspire readers. “I want a storm I can dance in. / I want an excuse to change my life,” she writes, and her attitude is contagious.
Ignited by flashes of humor, the poems in this buoyant collection find Sandra Cisneros accentuating the positive, living without regret and setting an example for us all.
For Joy Harjo, “history is / everywhere,” and the past is always present. Her vision and versatility are on full display in this majestic retrospective.
Through poems that probe the often painful connections between past and present Rio Cortez finds new ways of moving forward.
Sharon Olds surveys the world and, through the filter of her poems, renews it for the reader.
To flustered mothers, the internet-weary and anyone bewildered by contemporary life, Kate Baer’s collection will be a balm.
Akwaeke Emezi shifts effortlessly into the mode of poet, exploring spirituality and loss in ways that feel fertile and new.
Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Dennis holds out hope that we can be better humans, and the sentiment makes Earthborn a uniquely comforting volume.
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