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Winner of the Vermont Book Award
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS NewsHour
A Globe and Mail “Best Book of the Year”
Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, a profoundly moving…
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“Epic, kaleidoscopic and unapologetically crip: this is a book that sings the multitude in revolutionary new ways.”—People
A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that revels…
Selected by Jake Skeets for the 2025 National Poetry Series, a reverent and revelatory debut examining language, memory, and identity.
“You looked at me like there was no / nest in my throat,” Hajjar Baban writes in this spare, striking collection….
A Millions Most Anticipated 2026 Selection
”Erratica maps deeper meaning onto the rocks we climb with lyric reflections, philosophical explorations, and campfire-caliber storytelling that kept me reading late into the night.”—Maya Silver, editor-in…
A collection of “oracular, crystalline, and utterly original” poems wrestling with a life’s shifting social structures and the multifaceted totality of the self (Maggie Millner).
Elizabeth Metzger’s third collection traces both holding on and letting…
A Millions Most Anticipated 2026 Selection
“This is poetry of the highest order, and a stunning reminder of what words can do.”—Omar El Akkad
“Hold this book, read every word, study every picture, notice the prints you leave behind—a reminder that no…
These poems are deeply generous to the reader, serious and playful, alchemizing and liberating.”—Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful and Goldenrod
The seventh collection by award-winning poet Erika Meitner, Assembled Audience e…
Winner of the 2026 Reading the West Award in Memoir & Biography
A Library of Congress Great Reads from Great Places Selection
“The Way Around is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world.”—Robert Moor, author of O…
A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family.
From acclaimed poet and scholar Rajiv Mohabir, a brilliantly crafted retelling of the ancient Ramayan that valorizes the epic poem’s queer heart.
Rajiv Mohabir first learned of the Ramayan from his grandmother while sitting on his parents’ brown-tiled…
“Luminous… Wisp transforms ordinary objects, animals, landscapes, and historical figures into portals of reflection.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
A dual-language collection examining impermanence as the source of beauty from one of the…
In an ancient Moroccan apiary, a young boy’s inheritance of bees is endangered by climate change, family secrets, and the silence surrounding grief.
High in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, surrounded by valleys once rich with lavender and thyme…
Selected by Patricia Smith for the Jake Adam York Prize, an unflinching, profoundly gorgeous debut collection about beauty, pain, and the resilience of the human spirit.
In the haze of gothic nightclubs, in the stark pang of childhood memories and…
Tactile and synesthetic, Pink Theory! is a migratory exploration of image, poetic form, and philosophy that declares, “We cannot make the world alone.”
“We begin with the alphabet. Then we go anywhere,” writes Éireann Lorsung in her vibrant fifth…
A stunning debut memoir examining the end of a marriage and the path to self-discovery—and the wisdom of birds that guides the way.
After the heartbreaking and surprisingly swift end of her marriage, Elizabeth Grey surveys the remnants of a life no…
Following the collection that launched Milkweed’s acclaimed Multiverse series, Hannah Emerson’s Reality Reality Reality is a wholly original, electrifying work.
In Hannah Emerson’s incomparable second collection, reality is material. Reality can be…
This memoir is a riveting exploration of the contradictions of Black identity in the rural South, asking what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.”
An observant, lyrical memoir exploring what owls can teach us about nature, chronic illness, and ourselves—so long as we are quiet enough to listen.
From acclaimed poet and novelist Melissa Ginsburg, an observant, unflinching collection examining the interconnected systems between the domestic and natural worlds.
“Again and again // you ocean the marsh, lock the hurricane in the bathtub,” Melissa…
A collection of voices from varying perspectives—editors, agents, designers, and more—investigating the state of literary publishing today and what the future has in store for it.
The first edition of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century na…
From award-winning poet, playwright, and cultural critic Tess Taylor, a series of contemporary odes about rooting, attention, and tenderness in a broken world.
How do we steady ourselves? How do we focus attention in the face of climate change…
Inspired by true accounts of Tropical Storm Irene’s devastation of central Vermont in 2011, a novel-in-stories about the secrets that surface when a catastrophic storm takes a rural community by surprise.
“Water coming down from everywhere there’s an…
In poetic essays, Jessica White reveals how deafness sharpens her perception and deeply attunes her to her landscape, community, and self.
“Where a biography recounts a human life, an ecobiography shows how that life has been shaped by its ecosystem,”…
A New York Times Notable
Featured on NPR’S “Fresh Air”
A Los Angeles Times “Most Anticipated”
“Startlement is a book of rare treasures. With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limón’s poetry reveals new ways of paying attention. This powerful…
“A book with large ambitions that are met with great imaginative capacity.”—Paul Muldoon
In the centuries since Shakespeare’s Othello first hit the stage, the eponymous character has been subject to reinterpretation by countless artists around the…