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• Villainy

  Abi-Karam, Andrea, 1989-

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  Abi-Karam writes with a revolutionary energy that invites the reader to rethink how a poem sounds, and what it can do on the page and beyond. - Publishers Weekly

• Against Heaven

  Poems

  Alabi, Kemi

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  Winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, Alabi’s ecstatic debut pulses with the language of Black queer joy. - Publishers Weekly

• Brother Sleep

  Amparán, Aldo

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  Aldo Amparán’s debut collection of poems examines the struggle of finding a place for personal desire and vulnerability within the turbulent landscape of the U.S.-Mexico border. - San Francisco Chronicle

• Side Notes From the Archivist

  Poems

  Anastacia-Reneé

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  Side Notes from the Archivist is a preservation of Black culture viewed through a feminist lens. - publisher's copy

• Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes

  Poems

  Beer, Nicky

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  Beer's clever, kaleidoscopic, strange, and powerfully profound new collection is filled with forgeries and illusions as she portrays magicians, plagiarists, tricksters, and entire villages of liars. - Booklist

• Water I Won't Touch

  Candrilli, Kayleb Rae

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  Candrilli is both deliberate and dangerous, a thrilling combination. - Booklist

• Feast

  Cariño, Ina

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  In poems that span the Philippines to the United States, Cariño explores intergenerational relationships, trauma, and diasporic communities. - Publishers Weekly

• Togetherness

  Chan, Wo

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  This refreshing debut gathers its power by exploring the overlaps between gender, sex, language, and nationality. - Publishers Weekly

• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency

  Chen, Chen, 1989-

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  The vibrant second collection from Chen wonders aloud at how to make a place in a world where people and institutions strain under the weight of impossible expectations. - Publishers Weekly

• Content Warning: Everything

  Emezi, Akwaeke

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  Illuminates a complicated past, expels antiquated what-ifs and allows readers to share in the possibilities underscored by a wholly original and creative mind. - The New York Times Book Review

• Apocrifa

  Poems

  Flame, Amber, 1981-

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  Considers the cornerstones of romance—doubt, surrender, grief, resolution—through poems about hunger, exploration, and forbidden fruit. - Publishers Weekly

• A Queen in Bucks County

  Gabriel, Kay

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  This startling collection successfully highlights the precarious spaces of social exchange in a largely uncompassionate world. - Publishers Weekly

• A Dead Name That Learned How to Live

  Golden (Poet)

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  Weaves poems, family photographs, & self-portraits to share a journey of survival & living in the American south. - publisher's copy

• Miss Settl

  Hilliard, Kamden

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  These poems lampoon rigged games of common sense, syntax, and citizenship to expose the mechanics of what Americans have become and what they might be freed into after the end of capitalism and gender, and race, and money, and property. -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Shiver in the Leaves

  Hughes, Luther (Poet)

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  Brutality and tenderness intertwine in this collection, which illuminates the inner life of a young gay Black man navigating desire, depression, family, and faith. - The New Yorker

• Gossypiin

  Poems

  Imhotep, Malika Ra

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  A Black feminist hypertext that registers the feeling of an experience of the world in which the self is an unstable plurality continuously unmade. - publisher's copy

• Song of My Softening

  James, Omotara,

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  A profound and intersectional text, Song of My Softening is a queer, fat, love song of the interior. - publisher's copy

• Alive at the End of the World

  Poems

  Jones, Saeed

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  Balancing elegy with gallows humor, this penetrating collection shows Jones at his poetic best. - Publishers Weekly

• Punks

  New & Selected Poems

  Keene, John, 1965-

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  Divided into seven sections that span the writer's career, this brilliant, expansive collection offers panoramic insight into Keene's work. - Publishers Weekly

• Glory Hole

  Kim, Hyŏn, 1980-

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  A ground-breaking new collection of queer poetry from a leading contemporary Korean poet. - publisher's copy