D. Nurkse's immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child's dignified ignorance into an open encounter with the cataclysms of the latter twentieth century and with family structures. 

Dana Levin's fifth collection is a brave and perceptive companion, walking with the reader through the disorientations of personal and collective transformation. Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, "to be a messenger--to record whatever wanted to stream through."

In this brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity: climate change, anti-Black racism, familiar and erotic love, ecstasy, and loss. Drawing on a history of poetry that ranges from the Aeneid to Walt Whitman to Drake, Best Barbarian offers moments of joy and intimacy amid catastrophe.

Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year, but few of us know the peanut's tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom. Lyrical and powerful, Slaves for Peanuts deftly weaves together the natural and human history of a crop that transformed the lives of millions, revealing how demand for peanut oil in Europe ensured that slavery in Africa would persist well into the twentieth century.

What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? Award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge, evoking the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers including Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Neel.

Shane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and re-create images of our shared and specific pasts, he writes into and through the wounds that we remember and "strains toward a vision of joy" (Will Brewbaker, Los Angeles Review of Books).

The third and final book in Percy’s innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault follows the aftermath of an airplane that goes missing over Fairbanks, Alaska, in the wake of the comet, and a teenager’s search for answers about his father's final moments aboard the flight.

A collection of short stories told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, exploring desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases Lily King’s spare and stunning prose and gift for creating lasting and treasured characters.

Mutiny: a rebellion, a subversion, an onslaught. In poems that rebuke classical mythos and western canonical figures, and embrace Afro-Diasporanfolk and spiritual imagery, Phillip B. Williams conjures the hell of being erased, exploited, and ill-imagined, and honors the transformative power of anger and the clarity that comes from allowing that anger to burn clean.