Top 10

Cloud Runner

Joy Harjo. Norton, Oct. 13 ($26.99, ISBN 978-1-324-12365-1)

Harjo addresses the loss of her daughter in poems that draw on myth, ceremony, and Indigenous cosmology, connecting personal grief to collective histories of violence, disappearance, and environmental crisis.

Days & Chances

Joanna Klink. Penguin Books, Sept. 15 ($20 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-14-313857-0)

The sixth collection from Klink investigates ecological loss, aging, and midlife love. Moving between ordinary moments and extreme circumstances, these poems consider time, perception, and shifting relationships.

Dear Mothership

Marcus Wicker. Ecco, Sept. 8 ($16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-348769-7)

Wicker reflects on pandemic life, capitalism, grief, friendship, and the search for connection and meaning through linked sonnets, as well as a speculative sequence narrated by an extraterrestrial observing contemporary Atlanta.

Leap & Grow Feathers

Yona Harvey. Four Way, Sept. 15 ($17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-961897-96-0)

Grounded in hoodoo, ancestral knowledge, and intuition, this volume from Eisner winner Harvey traces the ongoing effects of Covid-19 while examining societal breakdown, authoritarianism, environmental crisis, and community care.

Middle Slope

Lindsay Turner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Oct. 20 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-374-62105-6)

Turner’s third collection is set on the suburban slopes of the Rocky Mountains and tackles climate change, infertility, and estrangement from the natural world.

Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2026

Carolyn Forché. Scribner, Sept. 8 ($30, ISBN 978-1-6682-1824-2)

This retrospective gathers Forché’s early, midcareer, and recent work alongside a new sequence. Throughout, the poet reckons with war, displacement, memory, and ethical responsibility.

Perfect Italian

Kiki Petrosino. Sarabande, Sept. 22 ($17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-956046-45-8)

Petrosino examines Black and Italian American identity in poems that probe cultural inheritance, family, grief, and belonging across generations and geographies.

Safe Rooms

Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan Univ., Aug. 11 ($16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8195-0256-8)

So-called safe rooms are revealed in these poems by Pulitzer winner Armantrout to offer only imperfect protection from the external pressures of modern life.

Staying Still

Hieu Minh Nguyen. Tin House, Sept. 1 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63893-470-7)

The sophomore offering from Vietnamese American poet Nguyen explores queer desire, refugee inheritance, and generational loneliness in works that range between intimate memory and the forces shaping identity and longing.

We

Layli Long Soldier. Graywolf, Oct. 6 ($20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64445-417-6)

This hybrid volume of poems, lyric essays, and visual artworks draws on Lakota concepts and treaty histories to investigate community, memory, and the politics of representation.

Longlist

Akashic

Wildest by Kira Tucker (Dec. 1, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63614-321-7). This debut examines environmental collapse, social injustice, and collective memory in poems that draw on archives, dream science, and climate data.

Alice James

Behold by Shara McCallum (Sept. 22, $21.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-967149-02-5) explores perception, identity, and belonging through encounters with visual art, especially paintings by contemporary Caribbean, Black, and women artists.

Andrews McMeel

Skinny Dipping in December by Atticus (Sept. 15, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5248-9541-9). The sixth collection from Atticus is composed of brief poems and epigrams about romantic love, loss, and emotional recovery.

Arsenal Pulp

For the Record by Nisha Patel (Oct. 20, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83405-050-8) comprises a book-length poem begun in 2020 whose word count has expanded to match Covid-19 deaths in Alberta, Canada, as of January 2026. In sections organized around contemporaneous events, the work traces pandemic loss, labor, and daily life.

Assembly

Whispering Gallery by Dani Spinosa (Oct. 13, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-998336-35-7). In this assemblage of visual and prose poems reworking Greco-Roman myth through feminine figures, typed and digitally altered texts pair with prose pieces to examine language, materiality, domestic objects, and everyday forms of constraint.

Backwaters

Hum by Sanam Sheriff (Oct. 1, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4962-4802-2) follows a queer, trans Muslim speaker from southern India to the United States. Drawing on Urdu lyric traditions, these poems address migration, exile, longing, and the shifting boundaries between self, body, and home.

Beacon

I Am a Carnival of Stars: Essential Words from Sonia Sanchez on Life, Love & Resistance by Sonia Sanchez (Sept. 1, $20, ISBN 978-0-8070-2525-3). Drawn from decades of Sanchez’s writing, this volume offers an accessible selection of reflections on love, resistance, and social justice.

Biblioasis

Best Canadian Poetry 2027, edited by Tolu Oloruntoba and Anita Lahey (Nov. 17, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77196-740-2), showcases the best Canadian poetry published in the preceding year.

Book*hug

My Forests by Hélène Dorion, trans. by Susanna Lang (Oct. 13, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77166-996-2). Centered on forests, lakes, rivers, and coastal landscapes, these poems reckon with ecological fragility and shifting human relationships to nature.

Brick Books

Lightning in Our Roots by Avis Blackbird (Oct. 27, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77131-679-8). Colonization and the transmission of cultural knowledge across generations are central themes in this work that reflects on Coast Salish ancestry while tracing Indigenous connections to land, urban life, and intergenerational memory.

Skin by Tyler Pennock (Oct. 6, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77131-676-7). Set in Treaty 8 territory (resulting from an 1899 agreement between Canada and several First Nations) and combining lyrical, found, and experimental forms, these poems address belonging in prairie landscapes shaped by colonial and communal histories.

City Lights

Selected Poems of Steve Dalachinsky by Steve Dalachinsky (Dec. 8, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-87286-924-0) spans decades of work by Dalachinsky, who died in 2019, gathering early and late poems alongside long-form projects and documenting a life in New York’s avant-garde shaped by jazz, performance, and underground artistic practice.

Coach House

Shadow of the Living Brightness by Dominique Béchard (Sept. 22, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-55245-531-9). Drawing from Christian mystic Hildegard of Bingen’s description of the “sensation of God’s presence,” Béchard investigates uncertainty, instability, and states of in-betweenness.

DK

The Alchemy of Melancholy by Katie Benn (Sept. 1, $22.99, ISBN 979-8-217-14016-9) contains poems and drawings on overwhelming emotion, self-discovery, and personal transformation. Organized around the generative potential of melancholy, these pieces move through personal crisis, collective anxiety, reflection, and resilience.

Duke Univ.

Ghost Woman: A Rising by Crystal Simone Smith (Nov. 17, $23.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4780-3905-1). Haiku and haibun driven by eco-poetics are organized around five elements—earth, wind, fire, water, and void—and explore the connection between self and nature.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Precisely Now by Lawrence Joseph (Sept. 15, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-374-62046-2). Set in post-9/11 Lower Manhattan, these poems investigate the Trump presidency, American power, and the vulnerability of the body.

Fordham Univ.

Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival by T.S. Leonard (Oct. 6, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5315-1452-5) traces survival, memory, and trans community across changing cultural landscapes informed by history, grief, music, and survival.

How to Cast a Beautiful Animal by Diana Keren Lee (Sept. 1, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5315-1436-5). Centered on an Asian American actor’s journey across the U.S. and abroad, this debut examines performance, labor, racial stereotypes, autobiography, grief, and identity.

Four Way

Magic Lantern by Joan Aleshire (Sept. 15, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-961897-90-8). This memoir in poems chronicles late-life love, grief, and survival through reflections on family and connection.

The Marvels by David Orr (Sept. 15, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-961897-88-5). In his second collection, Orr transforms ordinary scenes into compressed, formally controlled lyric poems that tackle urban life, perception, and wonder.

Graywolf

Black Lake by Emily Skaja (Sept. 1, $17 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64445-412-1). Set against environmental collapse and political instability, the sophomore volume from Skaja examines despair and survival after pregnancy loss.

Enter World by Dalia Taha, trans. by Sara Elkamel (Nov. 3, $17 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64445-425-1). Written in Ramallah during
the ongoing conflict in Gaza, this collection documents war, destruction, beauty, and endurance through fragmented, image-driven reflections on Palestinian life.

House of Anansi

Lantern by Sanna Wani (Sept. 22, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4870-1371-4) explores motherhood, caregiving, and how one puts down roots, in poems that reflect on Islamophobia, the beauty of the natural world, and societal responsibility.

Hub City

Work Lunch by Lee Bains (Oct. 13, $18 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88574-080-7). Alabama bars, neighborhoods, and workplaces feature in this debut that probes Southern culture’s contradictions through long-form poems about food, music, labor, race, religion, memory, and communal life.

McClelland & Stewart

The Volcano’s High Held Snow Note by Tim Lilburn (Sept. 22, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7710-2658-4). Set on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, these poems engage with Indigenous language and ecology in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

New Directions

Blue Like My Beloved by Mirabai, trans. by Chloe Martinez (Oct. 6, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8112-4043-7). This bilingual volume situates 16th-century Hindu mystic Mirabai’s work within the Indian literary tradition and highlights devotional poems centered on spiritual longing, intimacy, and liberation.

Norton

The Channel by Jana Prikryl (Nov. 3, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-324-13038-3). Ranging from King Lear to Cold War exile and contemporary politics, these poems use dramatic monologues and shifting historical settings to probe language, nationality, and family history.

Lion by Tina Chang (Oct. 6, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-324-12417-7) examines Asian American visibility, danger, and identity through interdisciplinary responses to works by women artists including Haena Yoo and Astria Suparak.

The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness & Recovery, edited by Meghan O’Rourke (Oct. 20, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-324-10569-5). Organized around diagnosis, caretaking, suffering, and recovery, this anthology of 82 poems about illness and the body spans four centuries and features writers confronting physical vulnerability and medical experience.

Paraclete

This Gift Card Has Already Been Redeemed by Mischa Willett (Oct. 13, $21 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89348-054-2) comprises poems about faith, prayer, doubt, displacement, and balancing theological inquiry with ordinary experience.

PM Press

Juju: Poems and Watercolors by Silvia Federici and Begonia Santa-Cecilia (Aug. 11, $24.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88744-210-5). Emerging from correspondence between two friends, this collaborative volume pairs poems and watercolors created during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Primero Sueno

You Still Have Yourself: Poems and Reflections by Fernando Samalot (Oct. 6, $19 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6680-8936-1). In a debut structured around four recurring figures—the Lover, the Melancholic, the Sage, and the Elder—Samalot traces grief, solitude, and healing through recurring natural landscapes.

Princeton Univ.

A Fire in Her Brain by Jennifer Franklin (Jan. 12, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-691-29386-8) contains epistolary and lyric poems centered on Lucia Joyce, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf. Interwoven with personal meditations, these works examine artistic ambition, mental illness, disability, caregiving, and creativity.

Tuttle

Haiku Cats by C.B. Fraser (Aug. 11, $14.99, ISBN 978-4-8053-2059-4) pairs 84 cat-themed haiku with collage artwork inspired by Japanese prints.

Univ. of Nebraska

Portolan by Daniela Danz, trans. by Monika Cassel (Jan. 1, $21.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4962-4992-0). The English-language debut from German poet Danz centers on maritime routes, global trade, tourism, warfare, and ecological crisis.

Univ. of New Mexico

Night Said by Barbara Rockman (Sept. 8, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8263-7013-6) moves between the high desert, New England, and imagined Ukrainian ancestral landscapes to reflect on Jewish heritage, aging, memory, and the search for belonging within the natural world.

Univ. of Wisconsin

Losers by Colin Pope (Nov. 10, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-299-35924-9) explores working-class and postindustrial rural America in poems that tackle class, geography, and social constructs.

Wayne State Univ.

The Winds That Scatter: New and Collected Poems by Nubia Kai (Oct. 13, $24.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8143-5314-1). This career-spanning volume gathers five decades of poetry shaped by the Black Arts Movement, Black political activism, and African diasporic thought.

Wesleyan Univ.

Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets, edited by Adrienne Perry, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock (Nov. 17, $26.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8195-0271-1), spotlights 35 underrecognized 20th- and 21st-century American poets who were marginalized by race, gender, sexuality, disability, region, or aesthetics.

Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation by Brenda Hillman (Sept. 8, $28, ISBN 978-0-8195-0241-4). The 12th collection from Hillman focuses on childhood homes, domestic interiors, memory, and ecological time.

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