WINNER of the 2025 Tennessee Book Award in PoetryIn her second collection, My Infinity, Didi Jackson continues her exploration of the paradoxical meaning of a world where joy and sorrow simultaneously coexist.These poems investigate both sacred and natural spaces. Her poems move grief and emotional suffering to language as a site of recovery and renewal. Much of this collection is ordered around the work of the Swedish visual artis...

This debut poetry collection "gives poignant testimony to the sorrow, rage, and piercing clarity of grief"—an Alice James Book Award finalist (Tracy K. Smith).In her intimately compelling debut collection Moon Jar, Didi Jackson explores the life-altering and heart-rending loss of her husband to suicide. While grief never fully subsides, Jackson allows herself to rediscover love as she contends with the haunting grip of human trauma. With precision and grace, these a...

Birds & Other Dreamers is about love despite fear. After heartbreak, a happy ending often seems impossible. What if it isn't?Affectionately called "Love in the Time of Anxiety," this is an illustrated collection of fifty love poems that the poet wrote and dedicated to her wife.

In this mesmerizing debut collection, chosen by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series, we’re witness to an expansive travelogue of the human spirit that moves throughtfully through multiples ages, cultures, and beings. Each poem explores in depth, through pensive, evocative images, aspects of the human condition and their place within the rich continuum of animal existence. W.B. Keckler presents these poems in a fugal form, uniting the individual works in what he describes as a “holis...

The prize-winning author of Thistle shares "a quietly magnificent collection of prose poems" that explore how we connect to the world around us ( Orion).Drawing inspiration from the work of Rene Char, Melissa Kwasny presents a new kind of prose poem in The Nine Senses. These experiments challenge the way we read sequentially, making each line equal to the next as disparate figures and topics appear side by side: Dylan Thomas, Roman water l...

These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place "where the Ferris Wheel/ was the tallest thing in the valley," where a boy would learn "to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck/ with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel." Looking back, the poet wrestles with the meaning of labor in the apple orchards and "the filthy dollars we'd wad into our pockets," or the rites of passage that included sinking a knife into the flank of a dead che...

Eroticism cut from classical mythology, ritual, and intimacyIn The Flesh Between Us the speaker explores our connections to each other, whether they be lovely or painful, static or constantly shifting, or, above all, unavoidable and necessary. Intensely and unapologetically homoerotic in content and theme, The Flesh Between Us sensuously conducts the meetings between strangers, between lovers, between friends and family, between eater and eaten, b...

Petrified Creature is a little bit wild and a little bit literary. It is the culmination of five years worth of exploring, discovering, and reflecting. The author recommends pairing this poetry with a warm cup of tea or coffee. It is also best read outside or with an open window. Come back to it sometimes and ponder more.

Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.In Sixfold Poetry Winter 2022: Ana Reisens | Pam asked about Europe & other poems :: Krystle May Statler | To the Slow Burn & other poems :: Kristina Cecka | On Remodeling & other poems :: Belinda Roddie | Bless The Bones Of California & other poems :: Summer Rand | Alexander tel...

From Erosion:SAN SEPOLCROJorie Graham. . . . How cleanthe mind is,holy grave. It is this girlby Pierodella Francesca, unbuttoningher blue dress,her mantle of weather,to go intolabor. Come, we can go in.It is beforethe birth of god. No-onehas risen yetto the museums, to the assemblyline bodiesand wings to the open airmarket. This iswhat the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR**“To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achi**ngly precious beauty of the present moment.” —Time“A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet.” —PeopleFrom the award-winning poet and bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Keep Moving, and Good Bones...

Organized in four sections – Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany – K.Y. Robinson's debut poetry collection explores what it is to want in spite of trauma, shame, injustice, and mental illness. It is one survivor's powerful testimony, and a love letter "to those who lie awake burning."