An old man rages in his nursing home, a rich man is haunted by a hog, an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker, and Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, If I Had Two Wings is a chorus of voices and visions marked by physicality and spirit.

Guillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, and the border itself. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and scorned lovers, Eduardo C. Corral writes portraits of contradiction, survival, and a deeply human, relentless interiority, solidifying his place in the expanding ecosystem of American poetry.

Lilia Liska has outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own version of events.

Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 70s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of the 80s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six is a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture.

In his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains “a shrewd composer of American stories.” Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time’s manifold potential to mend.

A small town in the American South takes a strange, silent visitor in and nicknames them Pew. As the town prepares for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, townspeople confess their secrets to Pew. By the time Pew’s story reaches a climax, the secret of their true nature is dwarfed by larger truths.

When Emilio turns 16, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. Emilio adjusts to his new normal, until he gets into a car accident and the policeman on the scene reports him to ICE. Emilio is deported to Guatemala, but he is determined to take an epic journey home.

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony explores Edward Said's notion of "the intertwined and overlapping histories" in regards to South Korea and the United States through innovative deployments of voice, story, and poetics.

Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody now waits tables in a small Massachusetts town and rents a moldy room where she works on a novel. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures further.