Overthinking simple actions leads to overwhelming poems about what one can lean on if promised help doesn't help

I Will Get Up Off Of is a book about trying to leave a chair. How does anyone ever leave ...

A daily ritual to write a single sestet per day generates peeled back poems that consider what it means to be good

Good Want irreverently posits that perhaps virtue is a myth that's outgrown its uses. Exploring ...

A science-inspired sequence that positions poems as technology 

Tierney’s new collection, which takes its title from lossless data compression algorithms, positions the sonnet as a piece of technology, ...

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What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?

Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living ...

A reimagining of an instructional text on tumbling supports poems about the amateurishness of being human. 

Tumbling for Amateurs is a reimagining of James Tayloe Gwathmey’s 1910 book of the same name, ...

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In his follow-up to SKY WRI TEI NGS, Nasser Hussain tackles the absurdity of the English language through a modern take love poems

The term ...

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Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.

Continuity Errors questions ...

Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.

Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking about subjectivity, language, the body — really, ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 A.M. KLEIN PRIZE FOR POETRY

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Backward and forward: a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms. ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD

Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties

Fire Cider Rain is about the limits ...