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April 1, 2025

Celebrate Poetry Month with 4 new books for spring 2025

New books by acclaimed poets Maggie Nelson, Martín Espada, Tiana Clark and Didi Jackson speak to the moment.
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National Book Award winner Martín Espada’s Jailbreak of Sparrows is a stirring call to recognize the unseen and unheard within our communities.

National Book Award winner Martín Espada’s Jailbreak of Sparrows is a stirring call to recognize the unseen and unheard within our communities.

Didi Jackson’s second collection, My Infinity, is a book full of noticing, which spends time with the natural landscape of Vermont and with the paintings of Hilma af Klint.

Didi Jackson’s second collection, My Infinity, is a book full of noticing, which spends time with the natural landscape of Vermont and with the paintings of Hilma af Klint.

Maggie Nelson’s Pathemata is a fascinating study in what suffering can teach us about the necessity of fully inhabiting each moment of our lives.

Maggie Nelson’s Pathemata is a fascinating study in what suffering can teach us about the necessity of fully inhabiting each moment of our lives.

Tiana Clark’s searching second poetry collection, Scorched Earth, embraces “too muchness” as a pure expression of the politicized body, history and art.

Tiana Clark’s searching second poetry collection, Scorched Earth, embraces “too muchness” as a pure expression of the politicized body, history and art.

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