Recently Received and Recommended Books
Recent and Recommended Books
The following list includes recent books of poetry or poetics recommended by Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Publishers are encouraged to send review copies of new poetry collections or volumes on poetics to the address below. Reviewers interested in submitting a critical analysis of any of the following books for publication in Valparaiso Poetry Review are invited to email their reviews to vpr@valpo.edu:
Valparaiso Poetry Review
Edward Byrne, Editor
English Department
ASB 226
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN 46383
Collection was suspended in 2020 due to complications from Covid restrictions
VOLUME XXI
Aber, Aria: Hard Damage, University of Nebraska Press
Abraham, George: Birthright, Button Poetry
Auerbach, Amanda: What Need Have We for Such as We, C&R Press
Balaban, John: Empires, Copper Canyon Press
Ballam, Shanan: Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems, Main St. Rag Publishing
Bello, Kyce: Refugia, University of Nevada Press
Bigalk, Kris: Enough, NYQ Books
Buckley, Christopher: Cloud Memoir: Selected Longer Poems 1987-2017, Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Burwick, Kimberly: Brightword, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Cantú, Norma Elia: Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life, and Labor, University of Arizona Press
Capista, Joseph J.: Intrusive Beauty, Ohio University Press
Carey, Sarah: Accommodations, Concrete Wolf
Carter, Jared: The Land Itself, Monongahela Books
Condon, Katie: Praying Naked, (Mad Creek Books) Ohio State University Press
Crane, Patty: Bell I Wake To, Zone 3 Press
Crooker, Barbara: Some Glad Morning, University of Pittsburgh Press
Cummings, E.E.: Selected Works, W.W. Norton
Cummins, Paul: The Collected Poems, Griffith Moon
Daniels, Jim and M.L. Liebler, Eds.: Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music, Michigan State University Press
De Sola, Susan: Frozen Charlotte, Able Muse Press
Di Martino, Marc Alan: Unburial, Kelsay Books
Drake, Barbara: The Road to Lilac Hill: Poems of Time, Place, and Memory, Windfall Press
Dunn, Stephen: Pagan Virtues, W.W. Norton
Falkner, Adam: The Willies, Button Poetry
Fike, Francis: Dune Tracks, Fithian Press
Foley, Jack: When Sleep Comes: Shillelagh Songs, Sagging Meniscus
Foley, Laura: Why I Never Finished My Dissertation, Headmistress Press
Frazier, Marc: Willingly, Adelaide Books
Geiger, Timothy: Weatherbox, Cloudbank Books
Gómez, Carlos Andrés: Hijito, Platypus Press
Graham, David: The Honey of Earth, Terrapin Books
Harjo, Joy: An American Sunrise, W.W. Norton
Iknadossian, Arminé: All That Wasted Fruit, Main St. Rag Publishing
Jackson, Raych: Even the Saints Audition, Button Poetry
Kell, Charles: Cage of Lit Glass, Autumn House Press
Kelly, Carlos Gabriel: Wounds Fragments Derelict, 2Leaf Press
Knapp, Elizabeth: Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, Washington Writers’ Publishing House
Mandel, Charlotte: Alive & in Use: Poems in the Japanese Form of Haibun, Kelsay Books
McRae, Sandra S.: All the Way to Just About There, FutureCycle Press
McSorley, Andrew: What Spirits Return, Kelsay Books
Millikin, Claire: Ransom Street, 2Leaf Press
Mullen, Kay: Homecoming, Fithian Press
Olayiwola, Porsha: I Shimmer Sometimes, Too, Button Poetry
Ortolani, Al: Hansel & Gretel Get the Word on the Street, Rattle
Raisor, Philip: That Naked Country, Standing Stone Books
Rhodes, Heidi Andrea Restrepo: The Inheritance of Haunting, University of Notre Dame Press
Sahibzada, Mehnaz: My Gothic Romance, Finishing Line Press
Searl, Stanford: Songs for Diana, Kelsay Books
Seyburn, Patty: Threshold Delivery, Finishing Line Press
Singer, Jared: Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self Destruction, Button Poetry
Solonche, J.R.: If You Should See Me Walking on the Road, Kelsay Books
Solonche, J.R.: In a Public Place, Dos Madres Press
Solonche, J.R.: True Enough, Dos Madres Press
Spragins, Elizabeth Spencer: The Language of Bones: American Journeys Through Bardic Verse, Kelsay Books
Starks, Rebecca: Time Is Always Now, Able Muse Press
Stein, Allen: Your Funeral Is Very Important to Us, Main St. Rag Publishing
Tandon, Jason: The Actual World, Black Lawrence Press
Twohy, Brenna: Swallowtail, Button Poetry
Weigl, Bruce: On the Shores of Welcome Home, BOA Editions
Williams, John Sibley: As One Fire Consumes Another, Orison Books
Williams, John Sibley: Skin Memory, (The Backwaters Press) University of Nebraska Press
Wilson, Leia Penina: Splinters Are Children of Wood, University of Notre Dame Press
VOLUME XX
Abushanab, Chad: The Last Visit, Autumn House Press
Alleyne, Lauren K.: Honeyfish, New Issues Poetry & Prose
Appel, Jacob M.: The Crying in Extremis, Able Muse Press
Baird, Blythe: If My Body Could Speak, Button Poetry
Baker, David: New & Selected Poems, W.W. Norton
Barr, Tina: Green Target, Barrow Street Press
Bickham, Katie: Mouths Open to Name Her, LSU Press
Bly, Robert: Collected Poems, W.W. Norton
Bodien, Elizabeth: Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock, Kelsay Books
Bolden, Emma: House Is an Enigma, Southeast Missouri State University Press
Bondhus, Charlie: Divining Bones, Sundress Publications
Case, Kristen: Principles of Economics, Switchback Books
Cassera, Heather Lang: I Was the Girl with the Moon-Shaped Face, Zeitgeist Press
Chapman, Robin: The Only Home We Know, Tebot Bach
Chappell, Fred: As If It Were, LSU Press
Chin, Marilyn: A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems, W.W. Norton
Clark, Tiana: I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, University of Pittsburgh Press
Cleary, Suzanne: Crude Angel, BkMk Press
Colson, Jona: Said Through Glass, Washington Writers Publishing House
Conley, Willy: Listening Through the Bone: Collected Poems, Gallaudet University Press
Czerwiec, Heidi: Fluid States, Pleiades Press
Da’,Laura: Instruments of the True Measure, University of Arizona Press
Dallagiacomo, Desiree: Sink, Button Poetry
Davis, Cortney: Taking Care of Time, Wheelbarrow Books
Davis, Todd: Native Species, Michigan State University Press
Dean, Debra Kang: Totem: America, Tiger Bark Press
Dubrow, Jehanne: American Samizdat, Diode Editions
Dunham, Rebecca: Strike, New Issues Poetry & Prose
Fisher-Wirth, Ann: The Bones of Winter Birds, Terrapin Books
Franklin, Jennifer: No Small Gift, Four Way Books
Geis, G.G. : Praise Music, Guernica World Editions
Gibson, Margaret: Not Hearing the Wood Thrush, LSU Press
Golden, Sierra: The Slow Art, Bear Star Press
Goodman, Henrietta: All That Held Us, BkMk Press
Guinzio, Carolyn: How Much of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets to the Ground?, Tolsun Books
Haight, Ian: Celadon, Unicorn Press
Harris, Dave: Patricide, Button Poetry
Hayes, Karen: The Houses Along the Wall, Holland Park Press
Hoekstra, Doug: Unopened, Five-Minute Books
Holmes, Karen Paul: No Such Thing as Distance, Terrapin Books
Hornik, Jessica: A Door on the River, Chatwin Books
Jacques, Rob: War Poet, Sibling Rivalry Press
Jarvis, Andrew: Blood Moon, Homebound Publications
Jarvis, Andrew: Landslide, Homebound Publications
Johnson, Vanessa Couto: Pungent Dins Concentric, Tolsun Books
Jones, Ashley M.: dark // thing, Pleiades Press
Kalfopoulou, Adrianne, A History of Too Much, Red Hen Press
Kalisz, Katie: Quiet Woman, Main Street Rag Publishing Company
Karetnick, Jen: The Crossing Over, Split Rock Review
Kildegaard, Athena: Course, Tinderbox Editions
Laux, Dorianne: Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W.W. Norton
Lee, Donna J. Gelagotis: Intersection on Neptune, The Poetry Press
Lee, Michael: The Only Worlds We Know, Button Poetry
Leonin, Mia: Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child, BkMk Press
Levering, Donald: Previous Lives, Red Mountain Press
Longenbach, James: How Poems Get Made, W.W. Norton
Lopez, Casandra: Brother Bullet, University of Arizona Press
Mathhieu, Irene: Grand Marronage, Switchback Books
McCartt-Jackson, Sarah: Calf Canyon, Brain Mill Press
McClung, Kathleen: The Typists Play Monopoly, Kelsay Books
McConnell, Marty: When They Say You Can’t Go Home Again, What They Mean Is You Were Never There, Southern Indiana Review Press
McDermott, Sharon Fagan: Life Without Furniture, Jacar Press
McFarland, JoAnne: Identifying the Body, The Word Works
Menes, Orlando Ricardo: Memoria, LSU Press
Moore, Berwyn: Sweet Herbaceous Miracle, BkMk Press
Moore, Julie L.: Full Worm Moon, Cascade Books
Mora, Pat: Encantado, University of Arizona Press
Muradyan, Luisa: American Radiance, University of Nebraska Press
Murphy, Erin: Assisted Living, Brick Road Poetry Press
Murray, Nina: Alcestis in the Underworld, Circling Rivers
Murrey, Matthew: Bulletproof, Jacar Press
Nelson, Paul: Learning to Miss, Guernica World Editions
Osherow, Jacqueline: My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple, LSU Press
Oswald, Alice: A Sleepwalk on the Severn, W.W. Norton
Peelen, Mary: Quantum Heresies, Glass Lyre Press
Pope, Colin: Why I Didn’t Go to Your Funeral, Tolson Books
Porter, Cati: The Body at a Loss, CavanKerry Press
Quillen, Rita Sims: The Mad Farmer’s Wife, Texas Review Press
Ray, Ricky: Fealty, Diode Books
Richards, Marilee: The Double Zero, Bauhan Publishing
Roney-O’Brien, Susan: Bone Circle, Kelsay Books
Rosenberg, Lisa: A Different Physics, Red Mountain Press
Rothman, Wesley: Subwoofer, New Issues Press
Schofield, Don: The Flow of Wonder, Kelsay Books
Seely, Shane: The First Echo, LSU Press
Sideris, Hilary: The Silent B, Dos Madres Press
Sideris, Hilary: Un Amore Veloce, Kelsay Books
Silverman, Sue William: If the Girl Never Learns, Brick Mantel Books
Solonche, J.R.: I, Emily Dickinson & Other Found Poems, Deerbrook Editions
Solonche, J.R.: In Short Order, Kelsay Books
Spires, Elizabeth: A Member of the Future, W.W. Norton
Springer, Jane: Moth, LSU Press
Stangeland, Joannie: The Scene You See, Ravenna Press
Stern, Sarah: We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune, Kelsay Books
Tadros, Billie R.: The Tree We Planted and Buried You In, Otis Books
Tavel, Adam: Catafalque, University of Evansville Press
Thomas, Daniel: Deep Pockets, Saint Julian Press
Walrath, Holly Lyn: Glimmerglass Girl, Finishing Line Press
Werstein, Ed: A Tar Pit to Dye In, Kelsay Books
Yarrow, Bill: Against Prompts, Lit Fest Press
VOLUME XIX
Albin, C.D.: Axe, Fire, Mule, Golden Antelope Press
Ammons, A.R.: The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons, W.W. Norton
Anderson, Idris: Doubtful Harbor, Ohio University Press
Balbo, Ned: Upcycling Paumanok, Measure Press
Barnett, Cameron: The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water, Autumn House Press
Barnstone, Willis: Poets of the Bible: From Solomon’s Song to John’s Revelations, W.W. Norton
Becker, Robin: The Black Bear Inside Me, University of Pittsburgh Press
Belin, Esther G.: Of Cartography, University of Arizona Press
Bennett, Chad: Word of Mouth: Gossip and American Poetry, Johns Hopkins University Press
Bialosky, Jill: Poetry Will Save Your Life, Atria Books
Bingham-Risher: Starlight & Error, Diode Editions
Blazek, Douglas: After Walking To and Fro and Up and Down in It, Edition Muta
Blazek, Douglas: A Long Rope at the Edge of the Void, Edition Muta
Bly, Robert: Collected Poems, W.W. Norton
Boss, Todd: Tough Luck, W.W. Norton
Bracker, Jonathan: Concerning Poetry: Poems About Poetry, Upper Hand Press
Brosnan, Catharine Savage: A Memory of Manaus, Mercer University Press
Buckley, Christopher: Chaos Theory, Plume Editions
Carroll, Judith Waller: What You Saw and Still Remember, Main Street Rag Publishing Company
Case, Susana H.: Drugstore Blue, Five Oaks Press
Chitwood, Michael: Search & Rescue, LSU Press
Cisewski, Paula: Quitter, Diode Editions
Clark, Patricia: The Canopy, Terrapin Books
Clark, Patricia: Deadlifts, New Michigan Press
Clements, Brian, Alexandra Teague, and Dean Rader (Eds.): Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, Beacon Press
Collins, Christopher P.: My American Night, University of Georgia Press
Collins: Michael: Appearances, Saddle Road Press
Connolly, Geraldine: Aileron, Terrapin Books
Coolidge, Clark: Selected Poems 1962-1985, Station Hill
Cooperman, Robert: Draft Board Blues, FutureCycle Press
Crisler, Curtis: The Grey Album, Steel Toe Books
Cundieff, Melissa: Darling Nova, Autumn House Press
Cushman, Stephen: Hothead, LSU Press
Daniels, Jim: Street Calligraphy, Steel Toe Books
Dickman, Matthew: Wonderland, W.W. Norton
Eastwood, Robert: Romer, Etruscan Press
Emerson, Claudia: Clouds Before Time and Space, LSU Press
Fennelly, Beth Ann: Heating & Cooling, W.W. Norton
Fisher-Wirth, Ann: Mississippi, Wings Press
FitzPatrick, Kevin: Still Living in Town, Midwest Villages & Voices
Friedman, Jeff: Floating Tales, Plume Editions
Frith, Laverne: Estuaries of the Mind, Authors Press
Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth, Albert Gelpi, and Brett Miller (Eds.): Adrienne Rich Poetry and Prose, W.W. Norton
Goetsch, Diana: In America, Rattle
Goodfellow, Jessica: Whiteout, University of Alaska Press
Goodman, Eleanor: Nine Dragon Island, Zephyr Press
Gould, Henry: Ravenna Diagram, Dos Madres
Gubernat, Susan: The Zoo at Night, University of Nebraska Press
Hamby, Barbara: Bird Odyssey, University of Pittsburgh Press
Harél, Jared: Go Because I Love You, Diode Editions
Harms, Joseph: Bel, Expat Press
Hirschhorn, Norbert: Stone. Bread. Salt., Holland Park Press
Hsien, Ya (John Balcom, Tr.): Abyss, Zephyr Press
Irwin, John T.: The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence, Johns Hopkins University Press
Irwin, Mark: A Passion According to Green, Western Michigan University Press
Johnson, Halvard: Floating Objects, Spuyten Duyvil
Kampa, Courtney: Our Lady of Not Asking Why, Western Michigan University Press
Keeler, Greg: The Bluebird Run, Elk River Books
Kelly, Joseph (Ed.): The Seagull Book of Poems, W.W. Norton
Kennedy, X.J.: That Swing: Poems, 2008-2016, Johns Hopkins University Press
Kildegaard, Athena: Ventriloquy, Tinderbox Editions
King, Dicko: Bird Years, Mayapple Press
Kobylarz, Philip: Kanji Amerikana, Dos Madres Press
Krapf, Norbert: Catholic Boy’s Blues, In Extenso Press
Kronenfeld, Judy: Bird Flying through the Banquet, FutureCycle Press
La Villa-Havelin, Jim: West: Poems of a Place, Wings Press
Lane, John: Anthropocene Blues, Mercer University Press
Lee, Li-Young: The Undressing, W.W. Norton
Legaspi, Joseph O.: Threshold, CavanKerry Press
Loggins, V.P.: The Green Cup, Cider Press Review
Longenbach, James: Earthing, W.W. Norton
Longenbach, James: How Poems Get Made, W.W. Norton
Lyons, Jacqueline: Earthquake Daily, New Michigan Press
MacFadyen, Janet: Waiting to Be Born, Dos Madres Press
Maher, Kelly Hansen: Tremolo, Tinderbox Editions
Makofske, Mary: World Enough, and Time, Kelsay Books
Marchant, Fred: Said Not Said, Graywolf Press
Martin, Charles: Future Perfect, Johns Hopkins University Press
Masini, Donna: 4:30 Movie, W.W. Norton
Mason, David: The Sound, Red Hen Press
Matuk, Farid: The Real Horse, University of Arizona Press
McCarthy, Opal: Surge, Tinderbox Editions
McClung, Laren (Ed.): Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees, W.W. Norton
Meadows, Carrie: Speak, My Tongue, Calypso Editions
Mensch, Joshua: Because, W.W. Norton
Meyer, Nadine Sabra: Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum, Western Michigan University Press
Miller, Carly Joy: Ceremonial, Orison Books
Mitchell, Thomas: Caribou, Lost Horse Press
Moritz, Rachel: Sweet Velocity, Lost Roads Press
Mountain, Alicia: High Ground Coward, University of Iowa Press
Muench, Simone & Dean Rader: Suture, Black Lawrence Press
Newman, Richard Jeffrey: Words for What Those Men Have Done, Guernica Editions
O’Donnell, Angela Alaimo: Still Pilgrim, Paraclete Press
O’Rourke, Meghan: Sun in Days, W.W. Norton
Orr, Gregory: A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry, W.W. Norton
Osayande, Deonte: Circus, Brick Mantel Books
O’Siadhail, Micheal: One Crimson Thread, Baylor University Press
Page, William: In This Maybe Best of All Possible Worlds, FutureCycle Press
Palmer, H.C.: Feet of the Messenger, BkMk Press
Partridge, Kate: Ends of the Earth, University of Alaska Press
Pastan, Linda: A Dog Runs Through It, W.W. Norton
Perham, Brittany: Double Portrait, W.W. Norton
Pettit, Rhonda: Riding the Wave Train, Dos Madres Press
Pimentel, Sasha: For Want of Water and Other Poems, Beacon Press
Rauk, Katharine: Buried Choirs, Tinderbox Editions
Roma-Deeley, Lois: The Short List of Certainties, Franciscan University Press
Ronan, John: Taking the Train of Singularity South from Midtown, Backwaters Press
Roxas-Chua, Sam: Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater, Lithic Press
Runyan, Tanya: What Will Soon Take Place, Paraclete Press
Satterfield, Jane: Apocalyse Mix, Autumn House Press
Schneider, Mather: A Bag of Hands, Rattle
Schmeidler, Lynn: History of Gone, Veliz Press
Schultz, Philip: Luxury, W.W. Norton
Sherrard, Cherene: Vixen, Autumn House Press
Solonche, J.R.: The Black Birch, Kelsay Books
Solonche, J.R.: Won’t Be Long, Deerbrook Editions
Smallwood, Carol: Prisms, Particles, and Refractions, Finishing Line Press
Spires, Elizabeth: A Memory of the Future, W.W. Nortpn
Sterling, Phillip: And Then Snow, Main St. Rag Publishing Co.
Stern, Gerald: Galaxy Love, W.W. Norton
Suermondt, Tim: The World Doesn’t Know You, Pinyon Publishing
Tanacea, Kendra: A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees, Lost Horse Press
Taylor, David: Palm Up, Palm Down, Wings Press
Thaxton, Terry Ann: Mud Song, Truman State University Press
Tolan, James: Filched, Dos Madres Press
Town, Jen: The Light of What Comes After, Bauhan Publishing
Van Doren, Sally: Promise, LSU Press
Veach, Cindy: Gloved Against Blood, CavanKerry Press
Vincenz, Mar: Leaning into the Infinite, Dos Madres
Vines, Adam: Out of Speech, LSU Press
Wahmanholm, Claire: Night Vision, New Michigan Press
Wallace, Jennifer: Almost Entirely, Paraclete Press
Wangerin, Jr., Walter: The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible, Cascade Books
Wardrop, Daneen: Life As It, Ashland Poetry Press
Wardrop, Daneen: Silk Road, Etruscan Press
Wells, Lisa: The Fix, University of Iowa Press
Wiley, Rachel: Nothing Is Okay, Button Poetry
Wolverton, Terry: Ruin Porn, Finishing Line Press
Wong, Pui Ying: An Emigrant’s Winter, Glass Lyre Press
Wright, Erica: All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned, Black Lawrence Press
VOLUME XVIII
Addonizio, Kim: Mortal Trash, W.W. Norton
Allen, Jason: A Meditation on Fire, Southeast Missouri State University Press
Amen, John: Illusion of an Overwhelm, NYQ Books
Anstett, Aaron: Moreover, Sagging Meniscus
Arnoult, Darnell: Galaxie Wagon, LSU Press
Baker, David: Scavenger Loop, W.W. Norton
Banias, Ari: Anybody, W.W. Norton
Barker, Wendy: One Blackbird at a Time, BkMk Press
Barker, Wendy & Dave Parsons (Eds.): Far Out: Poems of the ’60s, Wings Press
Bateman, Claire: Scape, Western Michigan University Press
Bauer, Grace: The Women at the Well, Stephen F. Austin University Press
Beck, Zeina Hashem: Louder than Hearts, Bauhan Publishing
Bell, Heather: Kill the Dogs, Rattle
Bernard, April: Brawl and Jag, W.W. Norton
Bingham-Risher, Remica: Starlight & Error, Diode Editions
Blair, David: Arsonville, Western Michigan University Press
Boening, Justin: Not on the Last day, But on the Very Last, Milkweed Editions
Boland, Eavan: A Poet’s Dublin, W.W. Norton
Boland, Eavan: A Woman Without a Country, W.W. Norton
Bolling, Bonnie: The Red Hijab, BkMk Press
Boss, Todd: Tough Luck, W.W. Norton
Botts, Elena: We’ll Beachcomb for Their Broken Bones, Coffeetown Press
Bradd, Bill: Continent of Ghosts, Wild Ocean Press
Branco, Rosa Alice: Cattle of the Lord (Tr. Alexis Levitin), Milkweed Editions
Brasfield, James: Infinite Altars, LSU Press
Bray, Tara: Small Mothers of Fright, LSU Press
Brennan, Matthew: One Life, Lamar University Literary Press
Bricuth, John: Pure Products of America, Inc., Johns Hopkins
Bridgford, Kim: Human Interest, White Violet Press
Brownlee, J. Scott: Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, Orison Books
Buckley, Christopher: Star Journal: Selected Poems, University of Pittsburgh Press
Burke, Michelle Y.: Animal Purpose, Ohio University Press
Burns, Shannon: Oosh Boosh, 421 Atlanta
Carlise, Chuck: In One Version of the Story, Western Michigan University Press
Casey, Kevin: And Waking…, Bottom Dog Press
Caspers, Patricia: In the Belly of the Albatross, Glass Lyre Press
Chai, Eleanor: Standing Water, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Channer, Colin: Providential, Akashic Books
Cheney, Chris: Lay Me Low, 421 Atlanta
Chin, Marilyn: Hard Love Province, W.W. Norton
Cisewski, Paula: Quitter, Diode Editions
Cohen, Susan: A Different Wakeful Animal, Red Dragonfly Press
Compton, Wayde & Renee Sarojini Saklikar (Eds.): The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them, Anvil Press
Cook, Christina: A Strange Insomnia, Aldrich Press
Coolidge, Clark: Selected Poems 1962-1985, Station Hill
Creighton, Allison: Drawing Down the Moon, Turning Point Press
Cushway, Philip and Michael Warr (Eds.): Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, W.W. Norton
Czaia, Zach: Saint Paul Lives Here (in Minnesota), Resource Publications
Dameron, Chip: Drinking from the River: New and Selected Poems, 1975–2015, Wings Press
Daniels, Jim: Rowing Inland, Wayne State University Press
Davis, Carol V.: Because I Cannot Leave This Body, Truman State University Press
Davis, Jeffrey: Coat Thief, Saint Julian Press
Day, Lucille Lang: Becoming an Ancestor, Cervena Barva Press
Day, Lucille Lang: Dreaming of Sunflowers, Blue Light Press
De Koninck, Jessica: Cutting Room, Terrapin Books
Donnelly, Susan: The Path of the Thunder, Cervena Barva Press
Doty, Mark: Deep Lane, W.W. Norton
Dove, Rita: Collected Poems: 1974–2004, W.W. Norton
Driskell, Kathleen: Next Door to the Dead, University Press of Kentucky
Dunham, Rebecca: Cold Pastoral, Milkweed Editions
Eliot, T.S.: The Poems of T.S. Eliot: Volume I, Collected & Uncollected Poems (Annotated Text), Johns Hopkins
Eliot, T.S.: The Poems of T.S. Eliot: Volume II, Practical Cats & Further Verses (Annotated Text), Johns Hopkins
Espada, Martin: Vivas to Those Who Have Failed, W.W. Norton
Evans, Christine: Cloudless: a novel in verse, University of Western Australia
Fagan, Kathy: Sycamore, Milkweed Editions
Fairchild, B.H.: The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems, W.W. Norton
Fleming, Deborah: Into a New Country, Cherry Grove Collections
Frazier, Marc: Each Thing Touches, Glass Lyre Press
Freeman, Matthew: Everything I Love Restored and Other Poems, Coffeetown Press
Freeman, Philip: Searching for Sappho: The lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet, W.W. Norton
Frith, Carol: Early Echoes, FutureCycle Press
Frith, Laverne: The Evaporating Hours, Authors Press
Fulton, Alice: Barely Composed, W.W. Norton
Ganassi, Ian: Mean Numbers, China Grove Press
Garcia, Kim: The Brighter House, White Pine Press
Garcia, Kim: Drone, Backwaters Press
Gardiner, Elee Kraljii: Serpentine Loop, Anvil Press
Gardner, Susan: Lifted to the Wind: Poems 1974–2015, Red Mountain Press
Gelineau, Christine: Crave, NYQ Books
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti: What Blooms in Winter, NYQ Books
Goodman, Eleanor: Nine Dragon Island, Zephyr Press
Gourdine, Traci: Ringing in the Wind, Ad Lumen Press
Green, Sarah: Earth Science, 421 Atlanta
Greenlaw, Lavinia: A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde, W.W. Norton
Greinke, Eric & Glenna Luschei: Zen Duende (collaborative poems), Presa Press
Grossberg, Benjamin S.: An Elegy, Jacar Press
Grotz, Jennifer: Window Left Open, Graywolf Press
Guida, George: Pugilistic, WordTech Editions
Gwiazda, Piotr: Aspects of Strangers, Moria Books
Habra, Hedy: Under Brushstrokes, Press 53
Hammond, Mary Stewart: Entering History, W.W. Norton
Hammons, Chera: Recycled Explosions, Ink Brush Press
Harjo, Joy: Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings, W.W. Norton
Harrison, Martin: Happiness, University of Western Australia
Hart, Gwen: The Empress of Kisses, Texas Review Press
Herceg, Karen Corinne: Out from Caboose, Nirala
Hetherington, Joal: On the Edge of No Answer, Bauhan Publishing
Hickman, Lou Ella: She: Robed and Wordless, Press 53
Hinrichsen, Dennis: Skin Music, Southern Indiana Review Press
Holder, Alan: Sky Gazer, Anaphora Literary Press
Houle, Adam: Stray, Lithic Press
Howe, Marie: Magdalene, W.W. Norton
Howell, Christopher: Love’s Last Numbers, Milkweed Editions
Hsien, Ya (Tr. John Balcom): Abyss, Zephyr Press
Huddle, David: Dream Sender, LSU Press
Huntington, Cynthia: Gnomon, Jacar Press
Hurt, Rochelle: In Which I Play the Runaway, Barrow Street Press
Hutchison, Joseph: The World As Is: New & Selected Poems 1972–2015, NYQ Books
Irwin, Jason: A Blister of Stars, Low Ghost Press
Irwin, John T.: The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence, Johns Hopkins University Press
Irwin, Mark: A Passion According to Green, Western Michigan University Press
Jagoe, Catherine: Bloodroot, Settlement House
Johnson, Halvard: Large Floating Objects and Other New Poems, Spuyten Duyvil
Kacian, Jim, Philip Rowland, Allan Burns (Eds.): Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, W.W. Norton
Kampa, Courtney: Our Lady of Not Asking Why, Western Michigan University Press
Karageorge, Penelope: The Neon Suitcase, Somerset Hall Press
Katz, David M.: Stanzas on Oz: Poems 2011–2014, Dos Madres
Kennedy, X.J.: That Swing: Poems, 2008-2016, Johns Hopkins University Press
Kildegaard, Athena: Ventriloquy, Tinderbox Editions
Kim, Annie: Into the Cyclorama, Southern Indiana Review Press
Kimmelman, Burt: Abandoned Angel, Marsh Hawk Press
Kinsella, John: Firebreaks, W.W. Norton
Klawitter, Daniel: Plato Poetica, Kelsay Books
Kramer, Ashley Seitz: Museum of Distance, Zone 3 Press
Kronenfeld, Judy: Bird Flying Through the Banquet, FutureCyle Press
Krysl, Marilyn: Yes, There Will Be Singing, University of Michigan Press
Kumin, Maxine: And Short the Season, W.W. Norton
Kumin, Maxine: The Pawnbroker’s Daughter: A Memoir, W.W. Norton
Lamothe, Lori: Trace Elements, Aldrich Press
Larsen, Nina E.: Where Salt & Horses Live Without Man, Finishing Line Press
Laux, Dorianne and Joseph Millar: Duet, Jacar Press
Leahy, Anna: Aperture, Shearsman Books
Lee, David: Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown-Eyed Susans, Wings Press
Lenox, Stephanie: The Business, Center for Literary Publishing
Levine, Richard Michael: Catch and Other Poems, Scarlet Tanager Books
Long, Nancy Chen: Light into Bodies, University of Tampa Press
Lough, James and Alex Stein (Eds.): Short Flights: Thirty-Two Modern Writers Share Aphorisms of Insight, Inspiration, and Wit, Schaffner Press
Maddox, Marjorie: True, False, None of the Above, Cascade Books
Maher, Kelly Hansen: Tremolo, Tinderbox Editions
Mahrer, Gregory: A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent, Fordham University Press
Mangold, Sarah: Electrical Theories of Femininity, Black Radish Books
Mangold, Sarah: Giraffes of Devotion, Kore Press
Marchant, Fred: Said Not Said, Graywolf Press
Marquette, Gretchen: May Day, Graywolf Press
Marvin, Cate: Oracle, W.W. Norton
Mayo, Tim: Thesaurus of Separation, Phoenicia Publishing
McCarthy, Opal C.: Surge, Tinderbox Editions
McCarthy, Pattie: Quiet Book, Apogee Press
McCray, Sjohnna: Rapture, Graywolf Press
McDermott, John A.: The Idea of God in Tennessee, Aldrich Press
McPherson, Karen: Skein of Light, Arlie Press
Meyer, Nadine Sabra: Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum, Western Michigan University Press
Miller, Wayne: Post-, Milkweed Editions
Milligan, Bryce: Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers, West End Press
Moolman, Kobus: A Book of Rooms, Deep South
Mooney, Sharon Fish: Bending Toward Heaven, Resource Publications
Nogues, Collier: The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground, Drunken Boat
Notess, Hannah Faith: The Multitude, Southern Indiana Review Press
Nusbaum, Susan Dworski: Open Wide, the Eye, Coffeetown Press
O’Donnell, Angela Alaimo: Still Pilgrim, Paraclete Press
Olson, Christina: Terminal Human Velocity, Stillhouse Press
O’Riordan, Adam: In the Flesh, W.W. Norton
Ortiz, Amalia: Rant, Chant, Chisme, Wings Press
Oswald, Alice: Falling Awake, W.W. Norton
Ott, Martin: Underdays, University of Notre Dame Press
Owens, Scott: Thinking About the Next Big Bang in the Galaxy at the Edge of Town, Main St. Rag Publishing
Pastan, Linda: Insomnia, W.W. Norton
Peacock, Molly: The Analyst, W.W. Norton
Pearson, Nancy K.: The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone, Fordham University Press
Pintado, Carlos (Hilary Vaughn Dobel, Tr.): Nine Coins, Akashic Books
Plumly, Stanley: Against Sunset, W.W. Norton
Pobo, Kenneth: Loplop in a Red City, Circling Rivers
Poulos, Michelle: Black Laurel, Iris Press
Pound, Ezra: Cathay (Centennial Edition), New Directions
Randall, Margaret: She Becomes Time, Wings Press
Raphael, Carolyn: Dancing with Bare Feet, White Violet Press
Rapti, Vassiliki: Transitorium, Somerset Hall Press
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Rice, Jordan: Constellarium, Orison Books
Rich, Adrienne: Collected Poems 1950–2012, W.W. Norton
Rich, Adrienne: Later Poems 1971–2012, W.W. Norton
Robbins, Doren: Twin Extra, Wild Ocean Press
Ronan, John J.: Taking the Train of Singularity South from Midtown, The Backwaters Press
Rounds, Daniel: Some Distant Lateral Present, Ad Lumen Press
Sanders, David: Compass & Clock, Swallow Press
Santiago, Chris: Tula, Milkweed Editions
Satterfield, Jane: Apocalypse Mix, Autumn House Press
Scheffler, Adam: A Dog’s Life, Jacar Press
Schroeder, Steven: The Moon, Not the Finger, Pointing, Lamar University Literary Press
Sen, Sudeep: Fractals, Wings Press
Sharif, Solmaz: Look, Graywolf Press
Sinclair, Safiya: Cannibal, University of Nebraska Press
Slaughter, Lauren Goodwin: A Lesson in Smallness, National Poetry Review Press
Solonche, J.R.: Beautiful Day, Deerbrook Editions
Spenst, Kevin: Ignite, Anvil Press
Stern, Gerald: Divine Nothingness, W.W. Norton
Stern, Gerald: Galaxy Love, W.W. Norton
Stewart-Nuñez, Christine: Untrussed, University of New Mexico Press
Stice, Lisa: Uniform, Aldrich Press
Stone, Myrna: Luz Bones, Etruscan Press
Svoboda, Terese: When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: New and Selected Poems, Anhinga Press
Swann, Brian: St. Francis and the Flies, Autumn House Press
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Tansey, Patricia (Ed.): A Celebration of Western New York Poets, Buffalo Legacy Publications
Tigue, Lindsay: System of Ghosts, University of Iowa Press
Torabi, Ziaeddin (Parisa Samadi, Tr.): Face to Face with Dreams, Ad Lumen Press
Twaronite, Gene: Trash Picker on Mars, Aldrich Press
Waldor, Peter: State of the Union, Kelsay Books
Walker, Laura: Story, Apogee Press
Wallace, Sara: The Rival, University of Utah Press
Wardrop, Daneen: Life as It, Ashland Poetry Press
Weingart, Arne: Levitation for Agnostics, New American Press
Wendel, Monica: English Kills, Coal Hill Review
Wheeler, Lesley: Radioland, Barrow Street Press
White, Gail: Asperity Street, Able Muse Press
Whittemore, Amie: Glass Harvest, Autumn House Press
Whitlow, Carolyn Beard and Marilyn Krysl (Eds.): Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century, Dartmouth College Press
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Williams, John Sibley: Disinheritance, Apprentice House Press
Williams, Kenny: Blood Hyphen, Oberlin College Press
Xiong, Khaty: Poor Anima, Apogee Press
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