Poetry rarely sees high press runs and royalty checks. And yet its writing is essential art that speaks to the human condition and its current moment in a brief, potent, insightful, nuanced, and imaginative way like no other kind of writing. Many poets rely on readings and connecting with their communities to help launch a new collection and find its readership. I dedicate this space to new poetry releases finding different means of entrance into the world during the extended quarantine of coronavirus.
Still-Life with God, Cynthia Atkins
Rare Wondrous Things, Alyse Bensel
Slide to Unlock, Julie E. Bloemeke
Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Traci Brimhall
All the Gay Saints, Kayleb Rae Candrilli
The Book of Levitations, Anne Champion and Jenny Sadre-Orafai
Obit, Victoria Chang
To Make Room for the Sea, Adam Clay
Tether, Lisa Fay Coutley
Don't Touch the Bones, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Sisyphusina, Shira Dentz
Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
All My Saints, Sean Thomas Dougherty
Letdown, Sonia Greenfield
Spring and a Thousand Years, Judy Halebsky
(aviary), Genevieve Kaplan
The Minuses, Jami Macarty
Flourish, Dora Malech
Hue & Cry, Diane Kirsten Martin
My, My, Kristi Maxwell
Salaam of Birds, Rachel Neve Midbar
Refusal, Jenny Molberg
Susan Leslie Moore
The Museum of Small Bones, Miho Nonaka
Rue, Kathryn Nuernberger
Spite, Danielle Pafunda
If Mother Braids a Waterfall, Dayna Kidd Patterson
Prime Meridian, Connie Post
Like a Bird, Melissa Studdard
Mouth Full of Seeds, Marcela Sulak
Rift Zone, Tess Taylor
Louder Birds, Angela Voras-Hills
The Wendys, Allison Benis White