Top 10
The Acrobat: Essential Poems
Wisława Szymborska. Ecco, July 7 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-349491-6)
Showcasing works that deal with intellectual and existential questions, this collection also includes Szymborska’s 1996 Nobel lecture, “The Poet and the World.”
America, a Love Story
Camille T. Dungy. Wesleyan Univ., Mar. 3 ($26, ISBN 978-0-8195-0215-5)
Dungy’s first collection in nearly a decade explores themes of love, motherhood, and race in such formally playful entries as a series of 700-character poems inspired by the 700 hours of sleep a mother loses in her child’s first year.
At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987–2010
Lucille Clifton. BOA, Apr. 14 ($21 trade paper, ISBN 978-1- 960145-98-7)
Clifton mines her perennial themes of spirit, survival, and truth across more than 70 previously unpublished poems.
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems
Adrian Matejka. Liveright, Mar. 31 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-324-09750-1)
Drawing from six previous collections, Matejka examines race and identity in America in dynamic poems whose settings range from Midwest parking lot carnivals to the boxing ring where Jack Johnson claimed his heavyweight title.
The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis
Fernando Pessoa, trans. by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari. New Directions, Apr. 21 ($19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8112-3789-5)
This bilingual edition of poems by one of Pessoa’s “heteronyms,” or alter egos, includes images of original manuscripts and prose pieces from the alter ego’s perspective on art and life.
Daughter of the Mountains
Fatimah Asghar. One World, July 7 ($16 trade paper, ISBN 978- 0-593-97993-8)
Asghar’s sophomore collection blends lyric meditation with formal invention in poems that reflect on exile from homeland, spiritual practice, and estrangement.
Intifadas
Edward Salem. Sarabande, Apr. 21 ($17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-956046-69-4)
These voice-driven narrative poems from Palestinian American artist Salem center on personal, political, and artistic acts of resistance.
Killing Spree
Jorie Graham. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 26 ($26, ISBN 978-0-374-61802-5)
The latest from Graham explores environmental collapse, aging, and political instability in poems that blend historical and contemporary perspectives while reflecting on inherited literary tradition.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: Collected Poems, 1998–2020
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, edited by Kwame Dawes and Marguerite L. Harrold. Univ. of Nebraska, May 1 ($27.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4962-4424-6)
Set in Liberia and the U.S., works in this volume from the African nation’s poet laureate remember civil war, exile, and family.
We Interrupt This Broadcast
Gregory Orr. Norton, June 2 ($27.99, ISBN 978-1-324-12423-8)
Orr writes about early memories, ecological damage, and social unrest in poems that draw on intimacy and the natural world to offset despair and highlight the potential for connection.
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American Poetry Review
Cloudwatcher by Michael Bazzett (Apr. 7, $17 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-9875852-5-2) offers a strange parallel world in poems that explore nature, time, the body, and the everyday.
Andrews McMeel
You’re Going to Be OK: (Because You’re F*cked No Matter What) by Darby Hudson (Mar. 3, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-8816-0726-5). These hand-typed fragments of uplifting, funny, and aphoristic poems encourage self-expression.
Arsenal Pulp
The Way Disabled People Love Each Other by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Apr. 7, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83405-030-0). Written across five years of Covid lockdowns, these elegies and odes document disabled, queer, BIPOC grief and trauma while charting a path toward imperfect healing.
Backwaters
Nine Persimmons by Kerry James Evans (Mar. 1, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4962-4371-3). Blending Southern memory and myth, these poems address place, tarot, and psalms, revealing how the sacred arises from the ordinary.
Biblioasis
Who Else in the Dark Headed There by Garth Martens (Apr. 14, $15.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77196-708-2). Set in 1980s–1990s northern Alberta, this collection reckons with maternal loss, childhood violence, and rural life.
BOA
August, September, October by Craig Morgan Teicher (Apr. 21, $19 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-968507-00-8) paints a portrait of fatherhood, illness, and caregiving during the Covid lockdown. Through two long poems that engage with other literary voices, Teicher moves through grief, memory, and poetic inheritance with imagination and hope.
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Konbit by Sony Ton-Aime (Feb. 17, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-88748-726-2) links Haitian communal traditions to ancestral uprising and the climate crisis. Ton-Aime draws on historical resistance and poetic influence to imagine a future beyond colonialism, displacement, and environmental collapse.
CavanKerry
Reconstructing Eden: A Southern Bastard’s Lyric Journey by Indigo Moor (Mar. 3, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-960327-18-5). Formal experimentation meets autobiography in poems confronting racism, rage, and war. Moor charts a path from childhood trauma through violence toward self-awareness.
City Lights
Lucky Charms: New and Selected Poems, 2000–2025 by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux (Apr. 7, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-87286-945-5) traces Thibodeaux’s evolution from New Orleans zines to the Bay Area poetry scene in works that address motherhood, Katrina’s aftermath, cancer, grief, mysticism, and ecological attention.
Memory Rehearsal by Eleni Sikelianos (May 19, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-87286-944-8). Mixing poetry, prose, and archival materials, Sikelianos excavates the legacy of her great-grandmother, classical Greek revivalist Eva Palmer. The hybrid text traverses queer history, Delphic ritual, the power of art to promote peace, and personal reckoning with one’s ancestry.
Coffee House
Squirming by Monika Ostrowska (Apr. 21, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-56689-753-2). This debut collection follows a speaker
navigating erotic intensity, longing, and perception, while exploring boundaries between thought, body, womanhood, and meaning.
Copper Canyon
Accidental Devotions by Kelli Russell Agodon (May 12, $17 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-55659-726-8) is a meditation on desire, digital life, and queer love that weaves together technology, memory, and spirituality, revealing how humans stay attentive and connected in a fragmented world.
I Was Bonnie and Clyde by Laura Kasischke (May 19, $17 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-55659-731-2). Through an unlikely cast of characters, including Bonnie Parker and Peter Rabbit, Kasischke juxtaposes the surreal and everyday, exploring death, memory, and consumer culture. Ghosts, animals, and historical fragments come together in conversational poems that use repetition to remark on history and tragedy.
Dopamine and Semiotext(e)
Soulmate as a Verb by Kelsey L. Smoot (Feb. 24, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63590-282-2) explores Black trans embodiment through forms like kwansaba and the golden shovel. These poems engage with suburbia, love, violence, and lineage, seeking connection amid vulnerability, grief, and survival.
Duke Univ.
Unrest in the Nebulae by Gitan Djeli (Mar. 24, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4780-3850-4). Through fragmented poetics and lines of Kreol, Djeli documents colonial violence and environmental ruin. Speaking from the perspective of oceans and islands in queer anticolonial language, her poems challenge imperial myth.
Ecco
Night Owl: Poems by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Mar. 31, $26.99, ISBN 978-0-06-328231-5). Touching on nighttime walks, family memories, animals, and plants that come alive after dark, these poems explore how the night reshapes love, attention, and humanity’s connection to the earth. 50,000-copy announced first printing.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung (Feb. 17, $22 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-374-61764-6). Written during the Covid pandemic, this collaborative poetic dialogue engages with history, myth, and daily
survival. Komunyakaa and McClung trade verses across generations, exploring language, memory, and artistic resilience.
Tree of Knowledge: Poems by Victoria Chang (July 7, $27, ISBN 978-0-374-61436-2). A felled eucalyptus gives rise to poems on art, grief, and erasure. Moving through Joan Mitchell, Hilma af Klint, and anti-Chinese violence in Eureka, Calif., Chang considers memory, art, and historical unrest.
Wellwater: Poems by Karen Solie (May 5, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-374-61767-7). The sixth collection from Solie explores the idea of “value” in poems that reckon with economic precarity, environmental collapse, aging, culture, and what persists.
Four Way
The Future by Monica Ferrell (Mar. 15, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-961897-82-3). Spanning from prehistoric caves to future apocalypses, this collection traverses centuries as it explores extinction, desire, invention, and memory.
Georgetown Univ.
No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, D.C. by Brian Gilmore (Feb. 2, $29.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64712-655-1) traces Washington, D.C.’s overlooked Black poetry lineage, combining research and personal contemplation to reflect on a multigenerational community shaped by resistance and mentorship.
House of Anansi
Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson (Apr. 7, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4870-1406-3). The book-length debut from Bezanson investigates boyhood and inherited approaches to masculinity through a fragmented reader’s diary, erasures drawn from interviews, and poems shaped by parenting, violence, and Rousseau’s Emile.
Hub City
Long Eye by Kwoya Fagin Maples (Mar. 10, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88574-071-5) channels a Black mermaid rooted in Gullah Geechee lore for poems that explore motherhood, neurodivergence, mythology, ancestry, and the South Carolina Lowcountry.
Iron Pen
Twice Blessed: Yard Sale Stories by Nikki Grimes (Mar. 31, $22 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89348-043-6). Reflecting on memory, inheritance, and the act of passing down things, this collection centers the significance of secondhand objects and the stories they carry.
Mandala
Breathing Room: Poems of Rest and Retreat by James Crews (Feb. 3, $19.99, ISBN 979-8-88762-151-7) features poems that emphasize stillness and attention, guiding readers to slow down, breathe, and find beauty in the ordinary.
McClelland & Stewart
Interposition: Poems by Kaie Kellough (Mar. 24, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7710-2372-9) comprises a long poem interrogating desire, digital identity, popular culture, and selfhood through disrupted poetic form and language from media,
culture, and tech.
New York Review Poets
The Death of a Greek Lover by David Plante (Mar. 24, $16 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89623-024-3). Dedicated to the author’s partner, this book-length debut of linked poems is an elegy exploring grief, devotion, myth, and meaning.
Nightwood Editions
If: Prey, Then: Huntress: Poems by Christina Shah (Apr. 7, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-88971-502-8). This debut collection chronicles heavy industry in western Canada from the perspective of a woman in a male-dominated field and explores environmental and cultural changes in the region.
Norton
If You Love That Lady: Poems by Maya C. Popa (July 14, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-324-12456-6). Drawing from 19th-century courtship letters, the third collection from PW poetry reviews editor Popa features a title sequence dramatizing correspondence and desire’s quest for the unattainable, in self-aware, elegiac, and affirming poems.
Omnidawn
En El Norte/ Soy del Sur by José Felipe Alvergue (Apr. 5, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63243-212-4). Through the hybrid form of “sonnet essays,” Alvergue traces the his family’s migration from El Salvador to the U.S., examining identity, displacement, and the restrictions placed on immigrants.
Princeton Univ.
Ritsos in Parentheses by Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Edmund Keeley (Mar. 24, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-691-28455-2). This bilingual edition brings together three collections by the late Ritsos—Parentheses (1946–1947), Parentheses (1950–1961), and The Distant—tracing three decades of evolving poetics that explore the personal, political, and mythical in modern Greek life.
Seagull
Fleurs by Friederike Mayröcker, trans. by Donna Stonecipher (July 6, $25, ISBN 978-1-80309-638-4). For the final volume in a trilogy that includes études and cahier, Mayröcker delivers fragmented, image-rich poems that contend with memory, renewal, and landscape.
Seven Stories
The Dinner Party: And Other Writings by Cat Fitzpatrick (May 19, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64421-548-7). This postpandemic verse novel celebrates trans femme community, queer desire, and poetic form through rhymed portraits and love sonnets.
Soft Skull
The World After Rain: Anne’s Poem by Canisia Lubrin (Feb. 3, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-59376-819-5). Comprising a long-form elegy to her mother, Lubrin’s poems deal with astonishment, grief,
resistance, and memory.
Tin House
Maybe the Body: Poems by Asa Drake (Feb. 24, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-963108-68-2). This debut links memory, the Filipino diaspora, and ecological themes in lyric and braided forms as it explores the impact of inheritance, art, and geography.
Tupelo
The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles by Janée Baugher (Feb. 1, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-961209-53-4). Written in the voice of Andrew Wyeth, this ekphrastic project surveys 63 of the artist’s paintings to chronicle his inner life, detachment, and decades of poetic observation.
Tuttle
The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan’s Modernist Master by Chuya Nakahara, trans. by Christian Nagle (May 12, $24.99, ISBN 978-4-8053-1897-3). This bilingual edition of Nakahara’s two major collections includes archival material showcasing the musical voice that reshaped Japanese poetry.
Univ. of Chicago
Bramble by Susan Stewart (Mar. 23, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-226-84746-7). The seventh collection from Stewart offers a three-part meditation on time, the act of making, and the natural world through satires, elegies, and songs.
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Steeplechase: Poems by Angela Ball (Feb. 10, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8229-6765-1). Set across multiple landscapes including Mississippi, Ball’s poems reckon with bewilderment and hope during a partner’s final years of illness.
Univ. of Wisconsin
Creature in Bloom by Rebekah Denison Hewitt (Mar. 24, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-299-35624-8). Rooted in the physical and emotional stages of early motherhood, these poems candidly navigate pregnancy, loss, and parenting against the backdrop of gun violence and other tragedies.
Washington Square
A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems by Maggie Smith (Mar. 24, $25, ISBN 978-1-6680-9005-3). In her fifth collection, Smith investigates the mind-body connection, the process of aging, and the power of observation.
Wesleyan Univ.
The Hell of That Star by Hyesoon Kim, trans. by Cindy Juyoung Ok (Feb. 3, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8195-0218-6). This defiant collection, which contains poems that have been censorsed in Kim’s native South Korea, documents political violence, constraint, and survival, and includes the poet’s reflections on the experience of censorship.
Yale Univ.
Thrown Voice: Vol. 120 by Isabel Neal (Mar. 10, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-300-28506-2). The 120th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize explores landscapes and waterways, mining the visible and invisible.
