Kevin Goodan

“[Anaphora has] heart-searing intensity. . .”
—Library Journal

October 2018
ISBN: 9781938584961

Iain Haley Pollock

NAACP Image Award Nominee

". . . Pollock delivers moments of levity, lyric beauty, and a creeping melancholy that lend his work its distinct atmosphere."
—Publishers Weekly

September 2018
ISBN: 9781938584954

Andrés Cerpa

A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection
Recommended by Foundry Journal

"With fierce despair and wisdom hard won through pain...these experiences have sharpened Cerpa’s stunning, dark observations and sparked chilling lines.” 
—Publishers Weekly

January 2019
ISBN: 9781938584978

Mia Ayumi Malhotra

2019 Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing
The 2018 Nautilus Gold Award Winner
“At the Empress: An Epithalamium” named the winner of the 2019 Singapore Poetry Contest
One of Electric Lit’s 10 Books of Poetry that Highlight the Diversity of Asian America
One of Entropy Magazine’s 2018 Best Poetry Books
Top Fall Poetry Collection from Library Journal

“By turns delicate and anguished, the poems [in Isako Isako] ask how one can recover—and recover from—experiences that are not one’s own.”
—Publishers Weekly

September 2018
ISBN: 9781938584947

Donald Revell

2018 Balcones Poetry Prize Finalist

“Thoroughly integrating sacred and secular, Revell produces a book of love and rapture.”
—Publishers Weekly

May 2018
ISBN: 9781938584763

Anna Rose Welch

“This is How You Beg” recognized as a special mention in Pushcart Prize XLIII

"Welch digs deep into desire, origin, and the chaos of creation in a debut collection of rich, sensuous poems that juxtapose scriptural material with the sexual."
—Publishers Weekly 

April 2018
ISBN: 9781938584756

Monica A. Hand

2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee

“DiVida stands as a timeless presence burdened by the injustices of systemic racism. Her power is rooted in black women’s ability, born of necessity, to inhabit their bodies in multiple ways.”
—Publishers Weekly

April 2018
ISBN: 9781938584749

Jennifer Chang

Winner of the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award
Longlisted for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award
A 2017 Poets.org Noted Book of the Year
12th Annual National Indie Excellence Award Winner
2017 Julie Suk Award Longlist Finalist
A 2017 Minnesota Public Radio Best Book of the Year
A 2017 Beltway Poetry Quarterly Best Book of the Year
A Lit Hub Book that Deserved More Attention in 2017
Recommended by the New York Public Library

“Chang is fearless in taking on traditional notions of what poetry can do to the self and to the natural world.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books

October 2017
ISBN: 9781938584664

Kaveh Akbar

Winner of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award
2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Gold Winner
2018 Levis Reading Prize Winner
2017 Julie Suk Award Winner
A 2017 Nautilus Silver Award Winner
2017 Florida Book Award Gold Winner
A 2018 First Horizon Award Winner
Winner of the 2018 Eric Hoffer Small Press Award
Shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize
A 2018 Montaigne Medal Finalist
A 2017 NPR Best Book of the Year
A 2017 Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A 2017 Entropy Magazine Best Book of the Year
A 2017 The Coil Best Book of the Year
A 2017 Sundress Publications Best Book of the Year
A 2017 Indianapolis Monthly Best Book of the Year
A 2017 Largehearted Boy Best Book of the Year
A 2017 Volume 1 Brooklyn Best Book of the Year
A 2017 Interview Best Book of the Year

“A breathtaking addition to the canon of addiction literature, Akbar’s poetry confronts the pain and joy in denying oneself for the sake of oneself…Akbar’s poems offer readers, religious or not, a way to cultivate faith in times of deepest fear.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

September 2017
ISBN: 9781938584671

June Jordan
Edited by Christoph Keller & Jan Heller Levi

A 2017 Poets.org Noted Book of the Year
A 2017 Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
An Oprah.com Editor’s Pick for New Collections by and About Bold, Free-Spirited Poets, Nov. 2017
12th Annual National Indie Excellence Award Winner

“Jordan begs us to trust one another and to tell the truth, to read the world more closely, to learn the wisdom of those who came before, who resisted before, and loved before. She laid a foundation, leaving a revolutionary blueprint for poetry to transform our lives beyond the white gaze and its literary imagination. . . .This book is not just a collection of figurative words; it is a tool for liberation.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review by Aja Monet

September 2017
ISBN: 9781938584350