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Charles Rafferty¿s latest collection of prose poems turns philosophical. In A Cluster of Noisy Planets, Rafferty captures the rhythms and patterns of life as a lover, father, and poet, distilling each moment to its essence and grounding them collectively in the wider perspective of a changing world, the constant turning of the stars and the changing seasons of the New England countryside. With a knowing nod to the passage of time¿day to day, year to year, epoch to epoch¿these lyrical poems form a record of the profound, ephemeral joys, losses, and echoes of commonplace moments.

A poetic retelling of Noah¿s Ark set in the near future, Ceive is a novella in verse that recounts a post-apocalyptic journey aboard a container ship.This contemporary flood narrative unfolds through poems following the perspective of a woman named Val, who is found in the wreckage of her flooding home by a former UPS delivery man. As environmental and political catastrophes force them to flee the Eastern Seaboard, Val and her rescuer take refuge alongside a group of pilgrims seeking refuge from the catastrophic collapse of a civilization destroyed by gun violence, climate crisis, and social unrest.The ship of cargo and refugees is run by the captain Nolan and his wife Nadia, who set sail for Greenland, now warmed to a temperate climate. The couple place Val in charge of caring for a neurodivergent young boy who holds knowledge of analog navigation. Mourning her missing daughter, Val experiences both isolation and a wellspring of compassion in survival, an indefatigable need to connect. She and the other pilgrims weather illness and peril, boredom and conflict, deprivation and despair as they set sail across stormy, unfamiliar waters.Drawing from the Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer, the Bible, and the Latin root word in receive, Ceive is a vision of eco-cataclysm and survival¿inviting meditations on biodiversity, illness, social law, sustenance, scripture, menopause, sensory perception, human bonds, caregiving, and loss, all the while extending a call for renewal and hope.

Reflections on divorce, single-parenthood, and searching for love in middle age in the cold and snowy heart of Bennington, Vermont.

First printing: 2,000 copies.Derrick Austin is the winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Award. This is his second collection of poems.Austin's previous collection, Trouble the Water (BOA, 2016), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and the Norma Faber First Book Award. Tenderness has been selected as The Rumpus's Poetry Book Club selection for September 2021.Austin is a Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford University and an M.F.A. graduate of the University of Michigan.Austin's poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Best American Poetry 2015, Black Nerd Problems, Gulf Coast, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, The Nation, New England Review, Tin House, and Tupelo Quarterly. Strong regional appeal in the South, with particular appeal in Florida and cities with large BIPOC LGBT communities.

This powerful new work by Bruce Weigl follows the celebrated poet and Vietnam War veteran as he explores combat, survival, and PTSD in brief prose vignettes.In compact, transcendent, and poetic prose, Bruce Weigl chronicles somber observations on the present day alongside painful memories of the war. Reflections on school shootings and the lightning-fast spread of news in the 21st century are set alongside elegies for forgotten soldiers and the lifelong struggle of waiting for the trauma of war to fade. Haunting and nuanced, Among Elms, in Ambush carries readers through meditations and medications, past the shapes of figures in the dark rice fields of Viet Nam and the milkweed pods in the frost-covered fields of Ohio, toward a hard-won determination to survive.

Punk-rock feminist poems exploring motherhood, pop culture, and resistance with a spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy.

Epistolary love poems that chronicle a woman discovering bisexual desire, negotiating mental illness, and cultivating intimacy.

Short Fiction Prize-winning collection of short stories that use science fiction to explore immigration, diaspora, and the concept of otherness.

Jannise's Poulin Prize-winning debut poetry collection subverts the self-help genre to celebrate drag culture, queer identity, and breaking the rules.

Neo-confessional poems about moving back to the suburbs, raising a family, sustaining a marriage, and facing the humility that comes with not being young anymore.

Fictitious biographical snippets that celebrate the sky-written words of early aviation and the life of the man behind them.

Elana Bell's tender poems about motherhood, caregiving, mental illness, longing, infertility, childbirth, and renewal reveal the intricacies of mother-child relationships.

Reyes's unapologetic intersectionally feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.

Selected poems from celebrated poet Lucille Clifton's 50-year career selected by Whiting Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.

Waters's 13th collection delves into aging, caretaking, the shifting landscape of modern marriage, and the slippery nature of familial memory.

America's premier living military veteran poet reveals the long scars left by Vietnam and the ghosts encountered at life's end.

With acerbic aplomb, Jillian Weise's latest collection of poems investigates disability and ableism in the literary canon.

A clever collection of translated fables that gently challenge perspective through wild boars, hoopoes, and holy men.

A collection of nine short stories connected by clumsy encounters, personal impotence, and the allure of transgression.

A coming-of-age poetry collection about a young Chicana growing up amidst the drug violence of Southern California during the '90s.

This book-length essay-poem chronicles the meditations of an adopted son--now a father--struggling with the meaning of family, love, and death.

LAST COPIES. Poetry. Memoir. African American Studies. A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, GOOD WOMAN includes all of Lucille Clifton's previously published books of extraordinarily vibrant poetry, as well as her haunting prose memoir GENERATIONS.

A master of neo-confessional poetry, Craig Morgan Teicher charts new territory in his fierce exploration of family, fatherhood, and poetry.

A reissue of acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's heart-wrenching memoir, with a new foreword by the author and never-before-seen photos.

A lyrical debut exploring the emotional fallout of immigration, childbirth, queer desire within a heteronormative marriage, and, ultimately, belonging.

Prose poems that turn conventional thought on its head, allowing magic to spring from mundane details of middle age life.

The first bilingual U.S. publication of celebrated Israeli poet Erez Bitton, often considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli poetry.