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, Heritance, 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 we choose to preserve, and which ones we reinvent for a new era. In what ways can art recompense for our personal and cultural wounds? Meditating on race, violence, and lineage, Rekdal challenges the reader 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 Aleksandar 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.
Unflinching, yet tender, the poems in Tishani Doshi’s Egrets, While War exists in a world of dualities—holding “desire in one hand, suffering in another.” Meditations on loss and larger world conflicts move alongside personal experiences, vulnerable self-reflections, and a deep longing for “what’s wild and pulsing.” Thick with lush and immersive imagery,birds punctuate the pages of this collection as omens, as prophecies, as epiphanies, and sometimes, as moments of “brief blazing splendour.” Parakeets feed from orange blossoms outside a window. Wildflowers appear in the garden overnight. Sunbirds dive “in and out / of dens of gold.” Sharp and subtle, these poems lament the loss of humanity, while relishing the beauty, strength, and persistence of the natural world. 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. Poems appear as interviews and confessions, and as a catalogue of departures—journeys that feel “like coming back from death.” These poems survive. Often following the path of undocumented Chinese migrants trekking to the United States by way of South America, speakers navigate dangers and visceral fears, authoritarian governments and hope. They are pulled forward by the future and a desire for liberty in a new country—for “the land destined to become their home.” As poems shift in language and geography, as they cross borders and trek the Rio Grande, as they jump ship and flee countries, Ha Jin unambiguously celebrates departure and praises freedom. Running Away reaches for a future where every door is open to us.
The Next Sky
By Sherwin Bitsui
September 1, 2026
9781556597336 | $17.00 | 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 the past, present, and future, questioning where living things fit into the puzzle of the natural world. Here, blackbirds sigh obsidian and the “land whispers its name.” The air is woven by laughter and breath becomes “a knot of lung steam” hidden behind a rib cage. From fragmented and surreal, to haunted and intimate, the poems in this book-length sequence ebb and flow, washing over readers like a wall of rain—fleeting and resonant. As the ancient collides with the modern and temporal, The Next Sky navigates ideas of culture and identity through explorations of land, place, and nature. “Insisting: Dusk is just skin worn on faces,” Bitsui blurs the line between humans and nature, collapsing what we know of language and time.
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 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 call 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
By James Richardson
September 15, 2026
9781556597398 | $19.00 | Paperback | 320 Pages | 6 x 9
Winner of the prestigious Jackson Poetry Prize, James Richardson is a poet of extraordinary range, ease, and clarity. Within the Hour joins the best of nine previous volumes to a considerable body of new work: There are piercing, short lyrics, among them elegies for Richardson’s parents, killed in a car crash, and for his younger brother who died at nineteen. There are selections from—and new additions to—the aphorisms and ten-second essays for which he is most renowned and beloved. Richardson’s meditations on the ordinary and the extraordinary reach from clocks, paper clips, and clouds to alt-facts, the suffering ocean, and the erotics of metals. Swerving between wit and tenderness, his poems blend the lyric and the philosophical and turn almost imperceptibly into parables of our lives in love and time. In the twilight of a literary career well into its sixth decade, Richardson finds that the years are shorter, but the hours are just as long. We have only Now—but always Now.
Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems
By Erin Belieu
October 6, 2026
9798987585269 | $17.00 | Paperback | 88 Pages | 6 x 9
A career-spanning collection from an unflinching poet of extraordinary emotional precision.
In celebration of a major voice in American letters, Erin Belieu’s Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems gathers decades of work alongside a generous selection of new poems. Wide ranging in style, subject and structure, this collection confronts with unsentimental clarity both tender intimacies and grief, as well as the absurdities of what it is to be a human. Belieu considers with fierce emotional intelligence and intellectual rigor the power dynamics and quiet brutality often embedded in our domestic lives and national narratives. Whether addressing sexuality, the sustainability of faith in one’s self or others, or American identity, the poems are penetrating and precise. 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.