Nicole Stockburger’s debut Nowhere Buelah, from Unicorn Press, deserves so much attention. Ambitious, sophisticated, and intimately lived in—the collection offers a journey through the rural Blue Ridge region of North Carolina, as well as the rural Blue Ridge region of…
Carl Phillips’ slim new Star Map with Action Figures, arriving next week from Sibling Rivalry Press, weighs less than it looks—in the hand, it wants to spread wings and take off. The twenty pages of poetry represent an integral unit…
David Hernandez says her poems in this debut collection ” are deft, attentive, and often turn the quotidian into moments steeped in mystery,” and Charles Webb declares it a “first book of extraordinary maturity”—Alexandra Umlas’ At the Table of the Unknown gracefully,…
Winner of the 2019 Antioch-Frontier Fellowship, Cass Garison is a joyful and incredibly talented poet. As winner, we had the privilege of sending them to Los Angeles for Antioch University’s MFA Summer Residency this June: a ten-day, all-day poetic romp…
Winner of the 2018 Benjamin Saltman Award and recently released, Matty Layne Glagow’s deciduous qween (Red Hen Press) qweens its way onto the stage: the reader thinks they may drown in sequins. The poem entitling the fourth section of the…
Winner of the Max Ritvo Prize, John James’s The Milk Hours (Milkweed Editions) pursues the texture of its poet’s world: daughter-full and bursting with natural life. We’re honored to have the chance to ask James about his dad, his animals,…
His second collection, Kenji C. Liu’s Monsters I Have Been (Alice James Books, released in April) vigorously grapples with our shared concepts of cannon, masculinity, and authorship. “Liu is at the vanguard,” The Rumpus says, “and many people will read…
Winner of the 2018 Frontier Chapbook Contest, Xiao Yue Shan chats with us about the process of getting her work out into the most possible hands (digital and otherwise). Shan’s chapbook, How Often I Have Chosen Love, won $2000 and publication…
Named as one of Book Riots 50 Must-Read 2019 Poetry Collections, Lee Ann Roripaugh’s tsunami vs the fukashima 50 (Milkweed Editions, released today) interrogates the 2011 disaster with unswerving gaze. “The elemental force of Lee Ann Rorigpaugh’s latest collection will sweep…
Loves You is “simply Gambito’s finest work yet,” Aimee Nezhukumatathil says, “a remarkable folksong and jubilee of the heart—and stomach.” The book brims with family as Sarah Gambito turns unique American struggle into song. We’re honored to have the chance to…
