New Books in Poetry
Episodes
Stephanie Bolster, "Long Exposure" (Palimpsest Press, 2025)
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with award-winning poet Stephanie Bolster about her new book, Long Exposure (Palimpsest Press, 2025)...
Kaie Kellough, "Interposition" (McClelland & Stewart, 2026)
26 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks wit Griffin Prize winner Kaie Kellough about his new long poem, Interposition (McClelland & Steward,...
Sarah Jean Grimm, "Hog Lagoon" (blush, 2023) and "Soft Focus" (Metatron, 2017)
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Jean Grimm is the author of Soft Focus (Metatron, 2017) and the chapbook Hog Lagoon (blush, 2023). She was a founding editor of Powder Keg ...
Avrom Sutzkever: Ten Poems
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, a cache of Jewish materials was discovered in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. The discovery included a manuscript of “...
Jennifer Wong, "Light Year" (Nine Arches Press, 2025)
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
And in the room we could hear the ocean waves, breaking against the history of ourselves. So concludes the first poem in Light Year (Nine Arch...
Sarah Howe, "Foretokens" (Random House, 2025)
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she’s kept– hoarding, I’ve learnt, is a mark of the emigrant –across continents and time.'So beg...
Crystal Simone Smith, "Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizen's of America: An Erasure" (Beacon, 2026)
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This powerful work by award-winning poet Crystal Simone Smith exposes the uncomfortable truth about America’s founding text: while Common Sense is...
Manuel Iris, "The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la Tierra Es Un Jardín de Monstruos" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This award-winning bilingual collection intertwines the lives of a Renaissance painter and a modern migrant worker, offering a fresh perspective on ar...
Conor Mc Donnell, "What We Know So Far Is..." (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Conor Mc Donnell about his long poem, What We Know So Far Is...(Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). The Irish...
Eric Weiskott, "Cycle of Dreams" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and "Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text" (U Exeter Press, 2025)
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Eric Weiskott, Professor of English at Boston College. Eric has previously published Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-165...
Diamond Forde, "The Book of Alice" (Scribner, 2026)
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award from The Academy of American Poets When her grandmother died, poet Diamond Forde inherited a well-w...
David Martin, "nightstead" (Palimpsest Press, 2026)
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with acclaimed Calgary, Alberta poet David Martin about is new collection, nightstead (Palimpsest Pr...
Darius Phelps, "My God’s Been Silent" (Writ Large Press, 2026)
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My God’s Been Silent (Writ Large Press, 2026) is a poetry collection that lives at the intersection of faith and fury, grief and grace. Written in ...
Guy Elston, "The Character Actor Convention" (Gordon Hill Press/Porcupine's Quill, 2025)
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Toronto poet Guy Elston about his debut poetry collection, The Character Actor Convention (Gord...
Sunil Iyengar, "The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Narrative Verse" (Franciscan UP, 2025)
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Narrative verse, or poems that tell a story, has existed for millennia, yet the mode of writing has been neglected by literary publishers, editors, an...
Khashayar Kess Mohammadim, "The Book of Interruptions" (Buckrider Books, 2025)
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi about his new poetry collection, The Book of Interruptions. In ...
Margo LaPierre, "Ajar" (Guernica Editions, 2025)
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet Margo LaPierre about her poetry collection, Ajar (Guernica Editions, 2025). The poems in ...
Luis Rechani Agrait, "My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts" (Swan Isle Press, 2025)
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts (Swan Isle Press, 2025) by Luis Rechani Agrait was translated into English by William Carlos Williams but not pub...
Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom, "Women, Life, Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution" (Guernica Editions, 2025)
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom about their anthology, Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolu...
Catherine Clarke, "A History of England in 25 Poems" (Penguin, 2025)
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is the history of England told in a new way: glimpsed through twenty-five remarkable poems written down between the eighth century and today, whi...
Martin Herskovitz, "Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor" (McFarland, 2025)
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a third generation Holocaust survivor, this was an important conversation with a second generation survivor. Marty has been conducting workshops on...
Paul Vermeersch, "NMLCT: Poems" (ECW Press, 2025)
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Paul Vermeersch about his new collection of poetry, NMLCT (ECW Press, 2025). Fables and fairy ...
Gian Piero Persiani, "Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan" (Brill, 2025)
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Waka poetry was all the rage in tenth-century, courtly Japan. Every educated person composed it, emperors and consorts sponsored it, and societal int...
Andrew Fadyen-Ketchum, "Fight or Flight" (Stephen F. Austin State UP, 2023)
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews Andrew Fadyen-Ketchum about his poetry collection, Fight or Flight (Stephen F. Austin State UP, ...
Rayanne Haines, "What Kind of Daughter" (Frontenac House Press, 2024)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews acclaimed Alberta poet Rayanne Haines about her book, What Kind of Daughter (Frontenac House Pre...
Yvonne Blomer, "Death of Persephone: A Murder" (Caitlin Press, 2024)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Yvonne Blomer about her stunning narrative poetry, Death of Persephone: A Murder (Caitlin Press, ...
Eli Clare, "Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming" (Duke UP, 2025)
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A transcript of this interview is available [here] A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows,...
Lillian Allen et. al, "Muttertongue: What Is a Word in Utter Space" (Exile Editions, 2025)
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews Gregory Betts, one of the poets behind the collaboration, Muttertongue: what is a word in utt...
Concetta Principe, "Disorder" (Gordon Hill Press, 2024)
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Concetta Principe about her poetry collection, DIsorder (Gordon Hill Press, 2024). Disorder, t...
Anand, "The Notbook of Kabir: Thinner than Water, Fiercer than Fire" (India Viking, 2025)
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kabir is the most alive of all dead poets. He is a fabric without stitches. No centres, no edges. Anand threads his way in. Over the years, as a publi...
Lorne Daniel, "What Is Broken Binds Us" (U Calgary Press, 2025)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews poet Lorne Daniel about his poetry collection, What is Broken Binds Us (University of Calgary Pres...
Theresa Muñoz, "Archivum" (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025)
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Archivum (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025) by Dr. Theresa Muñoz is a book – wise, funny and inventive by turn – that explores what it mea...
Carlene Kucharczyk, "Strange Hymn: Poems" (U Mass Press, 2025)
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I'll tell you everything I know. Though there might not be much to tell," confesses the speaker in Strange Hymn: Poems (U Mass Press, 2025) ...
Patrick Grace, "Deviant" (U Alberta Press, 2024)
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet Patrick Grace about his stunning poetry collection, Deviant (U Alberta Press, 2024). Dev...
Walter Scott Peterson, "[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson" (William Carlos Williams Review, Vol 41, No. 2, 2024),
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In “[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson” (William Carlos Williams Review, Volume 41, Number 2, 2024), Walter Scot...
Adam Bremer-McCollum, "The Pearlsong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Pearlsong (Harvard University Press, 2025) offers the reader a beautifully translated story of a young child who goes on a journey to far away pl...
Aisha Sasha John, "total: poems" (Random House, 2025)
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Aisha Sasha John about her poetry collection, total: poems (McClelland & Stewart, 2025). "Jo...
Taylor Byas, "Resting Bitch Face: Poems" (Catapult, 2025)
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black f...
Farah Ghafoor, "Shadow Price: Poems" (House of Anansi, 2025)
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews Farah Ghafoor about her poetry collection, Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025), which was longl...
Eibhear Walshe and Eleanor Fitzsimons, "Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde (Liverpool UP, 2025) by Dr. Eibhear Walshe and Dr. Eleanor Fitzsimons is the first contemporary edition of the poetry o...
Tea Gerbeza, "How I Bend Into More" (Anstruther Books, 2025)
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Based on Tea Gerbeza's experience with scoliosis, How I Bend Into More (Anstruther Books, 2025) re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and t...
Aurora Levins Morales, "Silt: Prose Poems" (Palabrera Press, 2019)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1890s a US congressman argued that the United States had the right to seize Cuba because he believed it was made of silt that had washed o...
Ashley M. Jones, "Lullaby for the Grieving" (Hub City Press, 2025)
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With previous work hailed by the New York Times as “unflinching” and “piercing,” Ashley M. Jones’s Lullaby for the Grieving (Hub City...
Therí Alyce Pickens, "What Had Happened Was" (Duke UP, 2025)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing to...
Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 200 years since Blake's death, the visionary artist, poet and writer has become a household name, often beloved. Yet many struggle to comprehen...
Zachari Logan, "Green" (Radiant Press, 2025).
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet and visual artist Zachary Logan about his beautiful collection of poetry and art, Green (R...
Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State introduces and explores documentary poetry written by Israeli poets who came of age during ...
Natalie Lim, "Elegy for Opportunity" (Buckrider Books, 2025)
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Vancouver poet Natalie Lim about her debut poetry collection, Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak & W...
MA|DE, "ZZOO" (Anstruther Books, 2025)
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, NBN host Hollay Ghadery interviews the artist collective MA|DE about their poetry collection, ZZOO (Anstruther Books, 2025). At...
Chris Hutchinson, "Lost Signal" (Palimpsest Press, 2025)
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Edmonton poet Chris Hutchinson about his newest collection of poetry, Lost Signal (Palimpsest P...
Tracy Wai de Boer, "Nostos" (Anstruther Books, 2025)
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Tracy Wai de Boer about her debut poetry collection, Nostos (Palimpsest Press/Anstruther 2025)....
Kathryn Mockler, "Anecdotes" (Book*hug Press, 2023)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Kathryn Mocker about her wildy acclaimed award-winning collection of hyrbrid fiction/prose poetry...
Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew eds., "A Thousand Tiny Awakenings" (Latitude 46, 2025)
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with co-editors and poets, Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew about their anthology, A Thousand Tiny...
Callista Markotich, "Wrap in a Big White Towel" (Frontenac House, 2024)
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Kingston, Ontario poet Callista Markotich about her poetry collection, Wrap in a Big White Towel. Callista’s p...
Elizabeth Greene, "No Ordinary Days" (Ekstasis Editions, 2025)
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NBN host Hollay Ghadery talks with the wonderful poet Elizabeth Green about her most recent collection from Ekstasis Editions, No Ordinary Days is a...
Basma Al Dajani, "The Arab Andalusian Love Poetry: A Study of the Interaction Between Place and Man Through Time" (AU Cairo Press, 1994)
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Unlocking Academia, host Raja Aderdor speaks with Dr. Basma A. S. Dajani, Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, in a sweepi...
Rebecca Salazar, "antibody: poems" (McClelland & Stewart, 2025)
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with acclaimed poet Rebecca Salazar about their new poetry collection, antibody: poems (McClelland & Stewart...
Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reim...
Thomas Leduc, "Palpitations" (Latitude 46, 2025)
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with former Sudbury Poet Laureate Thomas Leduc about his new collection of poetry, Palpitations (Lat...
Christine McNair, "Toxemia" (Book*hug Press, 2024)
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with the wonderful Ottawa writer, Christine McNair about her 2024 book of lyric essays and prose poetry, Toxemia (Boo...
Manahil Bandukwala, "Heliotropia" (Brick Books, 2024)
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host and poet Hollay Ghadery speaks with Manahil Bandukwala about her second collection, Heliotropia (Brick Books, 2024). T...
Rosa Castellano, "All Is the Telling" (Diode, 2025)
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN Poetry podcast, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Rosa Castellano about her gorgeous debut collection, All is the Telling (Diode, 2025). ...
Kyle Flemmer, "Supergiants" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Calgary poet Kyle Flemmer about his collection of poetry, Supergiants (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). ...
Nothingism
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Jason Schneiderman talks about Nothingism. A term of his own coinage, a tongue-in-cheek manifesto, nothingism is an in...
Lauren K. Watel, "Book of Potions" (Sarabande Books, 2024)
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren k. Watel's Book of Potions (Sarabande Books, 2025) is the winner of the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky. Wr...
Michael Blouin, "Hard Electric" (Anvil Press, 2024)
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Michael Blouin about his poetry collection, Hard Electric (Anvil Press, 2024). Hard Electric ...
Chris Bailey, "Forecast: Pretty Bleak" (McClelland & Stewart, 2025)
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with PEI poet and commercial fisherman, Chris Bailey, about his collection, Forecast: Pretty Bleak (Mc...
Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We need Emily Dickinson’s startling originality today more than ever. This is why I sat down with Sharon Cameron, one of the greatest commentators o...
Your Devotee in Rags
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with cultural icons, Anne Waldman (The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment) and Andrew Whiteman (Brok...
Diamond Forde, "Mother Body" (Saturnalia Books, 2021)
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2021) is an intersectional exploration of the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential to mother...
Stedmond Pardy, "Beached Whales" (Mosaic Press, 2024)
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NBN host Hollay Ghadery is delighted to speak with Toronto area poet Stedmond Pardy about his newest book, Beached Whales (Mosaic Press, 2024). Sted...
Tolu Oloruntoba, "Unravel" (McClelland & Stewart, 2025)
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of NBN, host Hollay Ghadery interviews Griffin and Governor General Award winning poet, Tolu Oloruntoba, whose highly-anticipated poet...
Dorothea Heiser and Stuart Taberner, eds., "My Shadow in Dachau: Poems" (Camden House, 2014)
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual ...
Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir was published in January 2025 by Icon Books. The book considers the political and psychological d...
Charlie Petch, "Why I Was Late" (Brick Books, 2021)
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) about their phenomenal debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books, 2...
The Free Speech and Poetry of Ana Blandiana
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Director and Producer Diana Nicolae and Editor and Camera Matt Jozwiakowski to discuss their documentary film, "Bet...
Ronald Okuaki Lieber, "The Long Journey Out" (Wipf and Stock, 2023)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I spoke with Ronald Okuaki Lieber about his new book, The Long Journey Out (Resource Publications, 2023) These poems are arranged in four sect...
Rob Winger, "It Doesn't Matter What We Mean" (McClelland & Stewart, 2021)
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, NBN host Hollay Ghadery chops it up with poet Rob Winger about his collection, It Doesn't Matter What We Meant by Rob Winger (McCle...
Jehanne Dubrow, "Civilians" (LSU Press, 2025)
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The final volume in Dr. Jehanne Dubrow’s groundbreaking trilogy about the experience of being a modern military spouse, Civilians (LSU Press, 2025...
Kirby, "She" (Knife, Fork, Book, 2024)
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of NBN host, Hollay Ghadery speaks with the incomparable Toronto poet Kirby in an exclusive sampler of spectacular Kirby poetry. Kirby...
Catherine Owen, "Moving to Delilah" (Freehand Books, 2024)
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From award-winning poet Catherine Owen, a collection of poems about one woman’s journey from BC to a new life in Alberta, where she buys an old hous...
George Elliott Clarke, "Canticles II (MMXX)" (Guernica, 2020)
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with one of her “favourite poets in the galaxy”, Canada’s 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Georg...
Gray Davidson Carroll, "Silent Spring," The Common magazine
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Poet Gray Davidson Carroll speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about their poem “Silent Spring,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue....
Poetry
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Ryan Ruby talks to us about Poetry. Our standard definition of poetry today is an institutional one, much like contemp...
Natasha Ramoutar, "Baby Cerberus" (Buckrider Books, 2024)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ethereal, soul-stirring, and playful, Baby Cerberus (Buckrider Books, 2024) by Natasha Ramoutar traces joy and kinship across a multitude of lives. ...
Maria Zoccola, "Helen of Troy, 1993" (Scribner, 2025)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the hills of Sparta, Tennessee, during the early nineties, Helen decides to break free from the life that stifles her: marriage, motherhood, the mo...
Yitzchak Etshalom, "Amos: The Genius of Prophetic Rhetoric" (Maggid, 2024)
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With timeless poetry and stunning imagery, the prophet Amos of Tekoa, a simple herdsman from the Judean mountains, stands in front of a stubborn, anta...
S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Madison’s Notes, we sit down with philosopher and author Charles Taylor to discuss his latest work, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the...
Ellen Chang-Richardson, "Blood Belies" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)
28 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Chang-Richardson’s breathtaking poetry collection, Blood/Belies, was released in spring 2024 by Wolsak & Wynn and was a third bestseller in n...
Johny Brown, "Corpse Flower" (Skill, 2024)
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the frontman of Band of Holy Joy, Johny Brown, Corpse Flower (Skill, 2024), is a long-form prose poem that shares Brown's journey through one o...
Tim Bowling, "In the Capital City of Autumn" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024)
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Bowling is the award-winning author of the poetry collection In the Capital City of Autumn (Wolsak & Wynn, April 9, 2024). Tim is the author of ...
Armand Garnet Ruffo, "The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2022)
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Armand Garnet Ruffo's staggeringly powerful poetry collection, The Dialogues: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow, was published in spring 2024 by Wols...
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, "Prayers of a Heretic: Poems" (Plain View Press, 2015)
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the poetry collection Prayers of a Heretic (Plain View Press, 2015), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub explores the "crime" of heresy and the condition of exi...
Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Dennis Wuerthner’s Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo (U Hawaii Press, 2024) is the first complete English t...
Tikva Hecht, "Tashlikh" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024)
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry is a commentary on life, on the human longing to find shelter in a space where the spiritual and the physical, the holy and the profane meet. F...
Nicholas Molbert, "Altars of Spine and Fraction" (Curbstone Press/Northwestern UP, 2024)
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Molbert's Altars of Spine and Fraction (Curbstone Press/Northwestern UP, 2024) follows its protagonist through the joys and dangers of chi...
Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lesbian poetry as a form of socio-political praxis in the Philippine context. This episode’s guest argues that lesbian writing – by lesbians and a...
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being “poetic,” yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game...
Rochelle Potkar, "Coins in Rivers: Poems" (Hachette India, 2024)
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fierce and unflinching, Rochelle Potkar's poetry springs from the deeply personal and ripples out to the world, capturing lovers' whispers and reverbe...
Christian J. Collier, "Greater Ghost" (Four Way Books, 2024)
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the ...