Heritance
By Paisley Rekdal
September 8, 2026
9781556597367 | $17.00 | Paperback | 128 Pages | 7.25 x 9.25
Writing from a mixed heritage, Paisley Rekdal voices both the sins of our fathers and the suffering of our mothers.
In Paisley Rekdal’s latest collection, the body and its meanings are ever shifting—it is, at once, a legacy, an obligation, and a means of generating more bodies. Summoning memories of parents, former partners, and children both real and hypothetical, Heritance examines the personal and familial shames we inherit. Can something so ephemeral as memory be owned? In what ways do we become complicit in the political values of our families, our nations, and our chosen—or assumed—communities? Here, Rekdal grapples with the inevitable loss of loved ones and relationships, but also of climate change and social evolution—asking what values do we choose to preserve, and which ones do we reinvent for a new era? And in what ways can art be recompense for our personal and cultural wounds? Meditating on race, violence, and lineage, Rekdal challenges the reader to contextualize their perspective within the corporeal, and to question what it means to love outside of “the lens of someone else’s imagining.”
Love Between Men
By Pádraig Ó Tuama
September 22, 2026
9781556597152 | $17.00 | Paperback | 96 Pages | 7 x 9
Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Love Between Men questions beginnings, from Eden myth, to personal memory and the extensions of empire.
Reimagining the story of Genesis, the prototypical Adam, Eve, gardens, and angels are reframed and given unexpectedly abrasive voice; beginnings are recounted as humans struggle to become themselves against the mirror of history. In richly contemplative voice, the theologian examines “what the gaze is for.” Ó Tuama’s poems are reflective, exploring memory and memory’s pain; queerness and country—each with borderlines of anguished history; the encroachment of empire, down to the forced imposition of language and its complex lines of oppression. Throughout the collection, Ó Tuama employs diverse forms, including the sonnet, the villanelle, sequences, odes, and elegies, written in direct language that echoes everyday speech as easily as it does prayer.
Godspotting
By Aleksander Hemon
October 13, 2026
9781556597404 | $17.00 | Paperback | 88 Pages | 6 x 9
MacArthur recipient’s first collection of poetry embraces mortality and survival in the face of global conflict and domestic threat.
Godspotting ponders and proclaims what it means to live, die, and survive in a world that “doesn’t love any of us.” Considering the fragility and utterly complicated nature of life, Aleksandar Hemon’s deep contemplation of human mortality shifts between surrendering to the notion of death as a disappearing act, acknowledging the difficulty of living in the present, and accepting that this cruel world is still home to beautiful things. Celebrated for his fiction and nonfiction, Hemon here turns to poetry to interrogate the “shape and form” of joy, meandering through tender and complex memories of family members, his childhood, and the transitory moments he never wanted to end. This collection challenges typically religious understandings of death and what follows, teetering from curiosity to radical acceptance to despair about one’s inevitable demise.Sharp, reflective, and poignant, Godspotting explores the normalization of violence, new beginnings as a refugee, and Hemon’s birthplace of Sarajevo. These poems illuminate the natural human desire to figure out one’s place in the world before, during, and after life.
Egrets, While War
By Tishani Doshi
September 29, 2026
9781556597350 | $17.00 | Paperback | 104 Pages | 6 x 9
Egrets, While War reflects on aging, mortality, and survival in a world where violence and the beauty of nature coexist.
The poems in Tishani Doshi’s Egrets, While War exist in a world of dualities—holding “desire in one hand, suffering in another.” Criticisms of war merge with discussions of existential angst and the longing for “what’s wild and pulsing.” Sharp, subtle, and grimly honest, these poems lament the loss of humanity, all while relishing the beauty, strength, and innocence of the natural world. Parakeets eat from a fruit tree outside a window. Wildflowers appear in the garden overnight. Mountains look like hands at dusk. Thick with lush and immersive imagery, Doshi’s investigations of larger world conflicts are accentuated by her self-reflections and personal experiences. Although at times dark and despairing, Egrets, While War posits hope, resilience, and the earth as answers to our physical, spiritual, and emotional survival.
Running Away
By Ha Jin
October 27, 2026
9781556597343 | $17.00 | Paperback | 112 Pages | 6 x 9
Timely, urgent, and wholly authentic, Running Away gathers a chorus of migrant voices to document a desperate journey toward freedom.
Vivid, honest, and boldly resilient, Ha Jin’s latest poetry collection, Running Away, adopts a chorus of narrative voices to tell stories of desperate migration. These poems shift in language and geography, they move across borders and “echo the voices / of those who pant and groan / under heavy loads.” Often returning to the path of undocumented migrants trekking to the United States by way of South America, these poems navigate dangers and visceral fears; they are pulled forward by the migrant’s hope and desire for liberty in a new country—for “the land destined to become their home.” Speaking out against authoritarian governments, Ha Jin unambiguously celebrates departure and praises freedom.
The Next Sky
By Sherwin Bitsui
September 1, 2026
9781556597336 | $19.00 | Paperback | 88 Pages | 7 x 9
In The Next Sky, history haunts and poems grapple with nostalgia and pain, the ancient and contemporary, to make sense of the places they intersect.
Pulsing with evocative voice and imagery, Sherwin Bitsui’s The Next Sky ruminates on humanity’s past, present, and future. From fragmented and surreal, to haunted and intimate, poems navigate ideas of culture and identity through explorations of land, place, and nature. As coyotes bleed, birds harmonize, and the sun beams, Bitsui questions where every living being fits into the puzzle of the natural world. Here, the ancient and timeless collide with modern and temporal. “[I]nsisting: dusk is just skin / worn on faces,” Bitsui affirms that beauty is an inevitability of living.
The World It Was
By Chase Twichell
October 20, 2026
9781556597381 | $17.00 | Paperback | 104 Pages | 6 x 9
An elegiacal collection looks unflinchingly at the degradations of the planet and the human body with an urgent appeal to live fully and presently
Written in the wake of the COVID pandemic lockdown, mass ecological tragedy, a chronic illness diagnosis, and the death of Twichell’s husband, The World It Was turns its gaze upon loss with unflinching lucidity. “Language is a door,” Twichell writes—yet, in The World It Was she circles that door warily, questioning whether words can ever grant true communion with what lies beyond them. As she travels between memories of her childhood and reflections on her aging body, Twichell’s signature attentiveness and restraint calls the reader to build a dwelling in the uneasy space between presence and grief. Part elegy, part meditation, The World It Was listens for the quiet intelligence of nature even as it mourns what has been destroyed. What remains is a grief that refuses consolation, instead insisting upon the necessity of seeing, naming, and being fully alive inside the brief body and the dying world.
Within the Hour: Poems and Aphorisms, 1971–2026
By James Richardson
September 15, 2026
9781556597398 | $19.00 | Paperback | 320 Pages | 6 x 9
Written from the twilight of an extraordinary literary career, James Richardson’s Within the Hour pairs thirty new poems—and dozens of his signature aphorisms—with key selections from over five decades of award-winning writing.
Richardson, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the Poets & Writers lifetime achievement Jackson Prize, is a cornerstone of contemporary American poetry. He is at his sharpest and most confessional in this collection, with one eye trained on devastating losses from his past—the car accident that claimed his parents’ lives, the untimely death of his brother—and the other on his own mortality. Richardson looks past the immediate, personal impulse to elegize his dead. Instead, he asks larger questions about our collective human experience, the passage of time, and what it means to be charged with a finite life in an infinite universe. Tender even in its loftiest thoughts, Within the Hour does not rehearse memory, but recovers the past and brings it—bleeding and singing—into the present moment.
Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems
By Erin Belieu
October 6, 2026
9798987585269 | $17.00 | Paperback | 88 Pages | 6 x 9
Wisecracking and fierce, Belieu’s new & selected interrogates gender, inheritance, and the stories that teach us how to live.
Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems gathers decades of Erin Belieu’s work alongside a generous selection of new poetry. Moving fluently between the personal and the mythic, the collection engages fairy tales, Catholic iconography, family history, and the body’s unruly knowledge to examine how we are taught to survive, love, and desire. Poems and their speakers are attuned to the hidden labor of care, alongside the quiet brutality embedded in domestic life and national narratives. Whether addressing grief, sexuality, faith, or American identity, the poems resist sentimentality, instead offering precision, wise-cracking wit, and a fierce emotional intelligence. In this retrospective lives a sustained attention to stories and how those stories teach us to survive. Cocklebur is a portrait of a poet unafraid to look directly at our personal and collective histories—what they permit, what they erase, and what they ask us to carry.
Revelator
By Ellie Black
September 1, 2026
9798987585269 | $17.00 | Paperback | 88 Pages | 6 x 9
Ellie Black’s Revelator transforms shards of language, pop culture, and literature into tightly wound poems of excess and incantation.
Chosen by Dorothea Lasky as the winner of the 2026 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Ellie Black’s debut collection, Revelator, glitches and falters, iterates and alludes. This is a book concerned deeply with what’s real, what’s fake, and what’s fantasy. With equal parts humor and horror, this fragmented, oracular collection explores the consequences of the increasingly blurry digital-physical landscape in which we find ourselves and its relationship to power, control, and what we worship. These poems transform shards of language, pop culture, and literature into a tightly wound poetics of excess engaged with an incantatory attention to sound. Famous women, teenage girls, movie characters, and reluctant prophets are victims, villains, and victors, sometimes all at once. Here, boundaries blur between high and low. Angels visit and animatronics come to life. Sylvia Plath, Lee Edelman, and Evil Dead II share space in a single poem. Revelation, this collection proposes, exists at the limits of confessional poetry, religious confession, the dramatic twist, and the divine promise of an apocalyptic ending. Revelator offers up a mirror to how we invent and perform ourselves on stages, on screens, and in our lives.