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…
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…
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.”
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…
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…
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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…
A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that revels from neuron to nebula and back.
Here is a book of many hearts, a revolutionary tide pool, a mycelial space and sensorium…
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….
“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-chief of Climbing Magazine
Part adventure…
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…
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…
“The Way Around is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world.”—Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An Exploration
Growing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was…
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…
A dual-language collection examining impermanence as the source of beauty from one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets writing in German.
Over the course of a partnership spanning nearly two decades, poets Jan Wagner and David Keplinger have…
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…
From National Book Award Finalist Fady Joudah, a collection of poems, essays, and photographs that offers a Palestinian representation of not only the staggering grief, but the unwavering resilience and prevailing life force of a people and place…
“How big is a home?”
“What is space without reaching?”
“You ever think about being remembered?”
Posing questions that belie their simplicity, Sean Hill’s new collection is rooted in our shared history, lived experience, and a speculative future. It…
Having extensively detailed his experience with a traumatic brain injury, Alex Lemon writes with the remarkable ability to transform the depth of pain into brilliant light. His enthralling new collection charts a visual map of the sprawling mind…
“Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book.” —Joy Harjo, author of Washing My Mother’s Body
“For now, go out and dream of joy, we know the labor of feeling it.”
With Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Jake Skeets…
A Katie Couric Media Summer Reading Selection
”The Evolution of Fire is stunningly written—vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always…
Over the course of her celebrated fifty-year career, Marilyn Hacker has continuously proven to be a timely, fearless, and lauded poet highly skilled in a wide variety of forms—most famously, the sonnet. Transitions is her first volume consisting…
“Shrewd, sage, and so darkly funny.” —Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
An unsuspecting couple is treated to a luxury vacation by their deceased neighbor. After begrudgingly agreeing to volunteer at a nursing home, a middle school…
An exquisite debut poetry collection exploring the way Nez Perce language embodies the inseparable connection of land, sound, and spirit.
Drawing its title from the Nez Perce word for ocean, distant water explores the mysterious process through which…
An NPR Most Anticipated Book of the Summer
“A generous invitation to follow the many streams that flow into the river of Gary Paul Nabhan’s remarkable life and work.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
“I have waited decades for these…
