We here at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review love poetry, whether it’s in chapbooks or full-length collections. We have a hunch that our readers do, too. Since December is a slow month for new titles, we publish an update about what full-length poetry titles we know are releasing for the month.
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The Radiant, Lise Goett
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Publication Date: December 24, 2024
Format: Paperback
The Radiant explores the psychological, physical, and spiritual challenges of living in a body and the changes and distortions that arise from the experience of the body’s limitations and inevitable death. The collection takes its title from the term for the point from which all meteors appear to emanate during a shower, luminous bodies in decay that when traced to their origin seem to converge at a single point. “Perhaps you can remember the time called before, the all-you-can-do-is-see-yourself-in-a-split-second where you recognize that everything you’ve ever known is going to be different after,” writes Goett in the collection’s final poem, “The Bookman,” recounting radiant points of no return and transformation that, in spite of their challenge, remain luminous.
Lise Goett’s second book, Leprosarium, also published by Tupelo, was the 2012 winner of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award in Poetry from the Poetry Society of America for best manuscript-in-progress. Her other awards include the Paris Review Discovery Award, The Pen Southwest Book Award in Poetry, Capricorn Prize from the West Side Y, James D. Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation, and the Barnard New Women Poets Prize for her first poetry collection, Waiting for the Paraclete, as well as postgraduate fellowships from the Milton Center and the Creative Writing Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Image, Mandorla, and the Antioch Review. She teaches generative workshops and edits poetry manuscripts for publication out of her home in Taos, New Mexico.
Monster, Dzifa Benson
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook
The exciting and complex debut collection from Dzifa Benson, Monster is a bold and lyrical exploration of the Black female body as a site of oppression and resistance. At its heart is a study of the world of Sarah Baartman, aka the Hottentot Venus, a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa who was displayed in freak shows in 19th-century Europe. Baartman’s voice is framed within the social, political and legal structures of the day, offering a unique perspective.
Other poems draw clear parallels with Benson’s own experience as a Black woman born in London but raised in Ghana who returned to the UK at the age of 18. The collection is a mix of vivid lyricism, sometimes laced with dark humour, using complex poetry, monologue and theatrical devices. The influence of Shakespeare sits comfortably with references to Ewe mythology and history in a collection of wide scope and depth. This is a highly accomplished first collection by a mature voice. As one of a small group of published Black women poets, Benson makes an important contribution to current British poetry with the publication of Monster.
Dzifa Benson was born in London to Ghanaian parents and grew up in Ghana, Nigeria and Togo. She is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work intersects science, art, technology, the body and ritual which she explores through poetry, prose, theatre, libretto, performance, curation, visual arts, immersive technologies, essays and criticism. She holds a Masters degree in Text & Performance from RADA and Birkbeck in London, and studied dramaturgy at the the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. She was shortlisted for the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize in 2021. Her first collection, Monster, is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2024. Her abridgement and adaption of the National Youth Theatre REP Company’s 2021 production of Othello, in collaboration with Olivier award-winning director Miranda Cromwell, toured the UK and she is currently in the pre-production, dramaturgical stage of her first full length play Black Mozart // White Chevalier.
Constructing a Witch, Helen Ivory
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook
In this collection, the witch appears as the barren, child-eating hag; she is a lustful seductress luring men to a path of corruption; she is a powerful or cantankerous woman whose cursing must be silenced by force. These bewitching poems explore the witch archetype and the witch as human woman. They examine the nature of superstition and the necessity of magic and counter-magic to gain a fingerhold of agency, when life is chaotic and fragile. In the poems of Constructing a Witch Helen Ivory investigates witch tourism, the witch as outsider, cultural representations of the witch, female power and disempowerment, the menopause, and how the female body has been used and misunderstood for centuries. Constructing a Witch is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears, and teaches for UEA/National Centre for Writing online. She has published five collections with Bloodaxe Books: The Double Life of Clocks (2002), The Dog in the Sky (2006), The Breakfast Machine (2010), Waiting for Bluebeard (2013) and The Anatomical Venus (2019), with a sixth, Constructing a Witch, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, out in 2024. Fool’s World, a collaborative Tarot with artist Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press), won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. The cover of The Anatomical Venus, which features her own artwork, won the East Anglian Writers Book by the Cover Award (East Anglian Book Awards 2019). In 2024 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors, an award recognising the achievement and distinction of individual poets.
Votive Mess, Nia Davies
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Paperback
Votive Mess is a book of small rebellions against systems of exhaustion and alienation, tracing Welsh poet Nia Davies’ efforts to a lost mother tongue, y iaith Gymraeg, and embracing lingual brambles and shabby theatre to assemble fragments gleaned from the rubble of Babel. In these poems, there are love letters drowsy and excessive as well as uncanny happenings on stage and in the woods. Votive Mess is composed out of a tangle of sex, leaf, stumbles on stage, damage, blackberries and dyslexia. There is a discharge of Awen, otherwise known as poesis. The navel of the dream is inside out.
Nia Davies’ second collection follows her startling debut All fours, emerging from an immersion in performance and ritual. The poems trace a path through the peaks and troughs of performance, bouncing between enchantment and disenchantment. These works are studies in the altered states of travel, masks, comedy, learning and love. Nia Davies’ first full-length collection, All fours (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2018 (Wales Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize.
Nia Davies is a poet experimenting with performance, embodied practice, intermedia and hybrid writing. She was editor of Poetry Wales from 2014 to 2019, and has worked on several international and collaborative projects such as Literature Across Frontiers, Wales International Poetry Festival and Wales Literature Exchange. Her pamphlets, Then Spree (Salt, 2012), Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız or Long Words (Boiled String, 2016) and England (Crater, 2017), were followed by her first book-length collection, All fours (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2018 (Wales Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Her second full-length collection Votive Mess is published by Bloodaxe in 2024. She was recently awarded a doctorate for research into poetry and ritual at the University of Salford.
Ungrafted: New and Selected Poems, Claudia Emerson
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication Date: December 9, 2024
Format: Hardcover / Paperback / eBook
The poetry of Claudia Emerson is marked by a precise, evocative handling of subjects drawn from her upbringing in the rural South yet recognizable to readers across cultures: complicated family histories, the eccentricities of place, the frustrations of illness, the pleasures of language and environment. Speakers drawn from history and local settings recount narratives of loss, struggle, and perseverance. The natural world glistens with beauty and vitality. Cancer overtakes the body, producing a suspended state of existence. Everyday objects suggest universal truths and mysteries.
Ungrafted offers more than two dozen previously uncollected poems left in manuscript at the time of Emerson’s death, alongside generous selections from all her previous books. Assembled by her longtime editor Dave Smith, Ungrafted adds a final volume to the legacy of the writer described by the Richmond Times-Dispatch as “one of the most honored, decorated, and revered poets in Virginia history.”
Claudia Emerson’s poetry collections include Late Wife, Figure Studies, Secure the Shadow, and The Opposite House. Before her death in 2014, she was professor of English and a member of the creative writing faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University. Emerson served as poet laureate of Virginia and won numerous awards for teaching and writing, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter, H. G. Dierdorff
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook
Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter is a story about leaving religion and coming of age in a world of accelerating climate apocalypses and environmental loss. In her debut collection of poems, H. G. Dierdorff interweaves an investigation of wildfires in Eastern Washington with a personal account of growing up in Christian fundamentalism, calling our attention to the violent histories undergirding both.
“I want you to touch the fire / sparking from my lips” the opening sonnet commands, daring the reader to abandon the safety of analytical distance and draw near to the moment of ignition itself. The voice that emerges is incessant, ecstatic, explosive. Fire erupts from every page, multiplying into rage, desire, judgement, responsibility, and renewal.
A love song to the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a dramatic portrait of a daughter struggling to find her place in her family, and a philosophical exploration of the limits of language and belief, this collection demands the necessity of both pleasure and grief as responses to a world on fire.
H. G. Dierdorff earned her MFA from the University of Virginia. She is the recipient of the 2022 Dogwood Literary Award for poetry, the 2022 Daniel Pink Memorial Poetry Prize, and a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Cut Bank, Arkansas International, About Place, and Willow Springs.
The Dove of the Morning News, Bruce Bond
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook
In poems both personal and historical, The Dove of the Morning News explores conceptions of collectivity, inflected by each psyche, as a force of both connection and division. In its look at tribalism and systemic cruelty as rooted in shame, dread, and insecurity, the book seeks a better understanding of how power needs, spurred by communities of hatred, weaponize the brain’s tendencies to think in animated figures, caricatures, erasures, or, as in the book’s mediation on vellum, texts written across the bodies of others.
As a lens into contemporary life, the title sequence interrogates the vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose sense of our increasingly interwoven cultural conversation figures now as a premonition of the internet. If his hope for the noosphere as a fulfillment of divine promise feels problematic, it nonetheless sees our globe as an organism whose long-term survival depends on the capacity of each to forge friendship across difference, to take the health and integration of the individual as emblematic of the whole.
Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-five books including, Patmos, Behemoth, Liberation of Dissonance, and Invention of the Wilderness, plus two books of criticism: Immanent Distance, and Plurality and the Poetics of Self. He has received numerous honors including the Juniper Prize, the Elixir Press Poetry Award, the New Criterion Prize, two Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry awards, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and seven appearances in Best American Poetry. Bond teaches part time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.
It Was Never Supposed To Be, Ben Kline
Publisher: Variant Literature
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Paperback
It Was Never Supposed To Be revisits the rapid progress of queer marriage rights, beginning with Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the protease inhibitor cocktails, ending after Obergefell amid previously unimaginable changes, all while asking questions about the nature of social acceptance, about what it means to love, commit and marry as former and current sexual outlaws.
Hailing from the farmlands of Appalachia’s west foothills, Ben Kline is a poet, storyteller and information professional living in Cincinnati, Ohio, writing about the modern digital existence, his former lovers, the Eighties, assorted concepts in astrophysics, rural-urban dichotomies and queerness as it was, is and might be.
Many Poems, Roberta Iannamico, Alexis Almeida (Tr.)
Publisher: The Song Cave
Publication Date: December 17, 2024
Format: Paperback
Acclaimed Argentinian poet Roberta Iannamico’s Many Poems animates the particulars of an imaginary world that lives deeply inside our real one, tapping into poetry’s distinctive ability to magically transform daily scenes into purely ecstatic visions. A lonely winter day, the methods of lighting a cigarette, a gentle rain, a naked woman asleep in a field—whether the world of Iannamico’s poems is wide awake or asleep (or sometimes both), she softly imbues a dreamlike quality into every line. Masterfully translated by Alexis Almeida, Many Poems is Iannamico’s first full-length book to be published in English.
Roberta Iannamico lives in Villa Ventana, Argentina. She has published several books of poetry, including El zorro gris, El zorro blanco, Mamuskhas, El collar de fideos, Tendal and several books for children. Her poems have been translated into English and Portuguese.
Alexis Almeida is the author of the chapbooks Things I Have Made a Fiction (2024, winner of the Oversound chapbook contest) and I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Ducking Presse 2018). Her first full-length book, Caetano, is forthcoming in 2025 with The Elephants. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and edits 18 Owls Press.
Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers, Andrew Schelling
Publisher: Empty Bowl
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Paperback
Andrew Schelling’s new poetry collection, Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers, continues to explore lands of the American West and the traces of old language. Arranged in four sections, it offers poems “found” among the canyons and buttes of the Southwest, a paean to the Sanskrit dictionary, odes and elegies to deceased poets, and a series of love songs “to the tune of a ballad.” Composed for an era in which many artists have abandoned the love song, the poems here are shaped by glacier-fed rivers and traditions of romance “old as ice.”
Guerrilla Blooms, Daniela Catrileo
Publisher: Eulalia Books
Publication Date: December 4, 2024
Format: Paperback
Winner of the 2019 Santiago Municipal Literature Prize, Daniela Catrileo’s first poetry collection written in both Spanish and Mapudungun is a masterwork of contemporary indigenous literature. Translated by Edith Adams, Guerrilla Blooms places the reader before the story of a woman, who along with her partner, participates in an ancestral war led by weichafe women like themselves. Love and warfare intertwine, creating a reality that interweaves territories, languages, and chronologies, collapsing time and space to draw an enmeshed lineage from the arrival of the conquistadors to ongoing state violence against the Mapuche people.
Daniela Catrileo is a writer, artist, activist, and professor of philosophy. Her published works include Río herido (Edicola), Guerra florida (Del Aire), Piñen (Pez Espiral; Las Afueras), Las aguas dejaron de unirse a otras aguas (Pez Espiral), El territorio del viaje (Edicola), Todas quisimos ser el sol (Las Guachas) and Chilco (Seix Barral). She has received various awards for her work, including the Santiago Municipal Prize for Literature (2019), the award for Best Literary Work in the short story category from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile (2020) and the first place prize for her audiovisual work Llekümün (2020) at Ax: Encounters of Indigenous and Afro Descendent Cultures from the National Cultural Heritage Service. She is a member of the Mapuche Rangiñtulewfü Collective and part of the editorial team for Yene, a digital magazine featuring art, writing, and critical thought from across Wallmapu and the Mapuche diaspora. She also co-directs Traytrayko, the Journal of Mapuche Literature.
The Mistaken Place of Things, Gabriela Aguirre, Laura Cesarco Eglin (Tr.)
Publisher: Eulalia Books
Publication Date: December 4, 2024
Format: Paperback
Mexican poet Gabriela Aguirre’s second collection, translated by National Translation Award-winning translator Laura Cesarco Eglin, traces the delicate intersections of presence and absence. Situated in everyday life, Aguirre’s work delves into the significance of places and spaces, not as static entities but as dynamic arenas for reflection. Her poetry is a quest through zones of attachment and distancing, and an invitation to seek out a place in the world of people and things, to never stop seeking.
Gabriela Aguirre is a poet from Querétaro, México. She is the author of the poetry collections La frontera: un cuerpo, El lugar equivocado de las cosas (Fondo Editorial de Querétaro), La casa es una espora (Ediciones El humo), and La isla de tu nombre (Veliz Books), and others. Aguirre is the recipient of many awards, including the 2003 Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Elías Nandino; the 2007 Premio Nacional de Poesía Enriqueta Ochoa for her book El lugar equivocado de las cosas. She has been a fellow of FONCA (Jóvenes Creadores), a fellow of the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas for Poetry from 2005 to 2007, as well as a fellow of the Instituto Queretano de la Cultura y las Artes (Creador con Trayectoria). Aguirre received an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Texas at El Paso and a PhD in Literature from the Universidad de Guanajuato. She teaches literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.
Laura Cesarco Eglin is a poet and translator from Uruguay. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including the chapbooks Between Gone and Leaving—Home (dancing girl press) and Time/Tempo: The Idea of Breath (PRESS 254). Her poems and translations (from the Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician), have appeared in many journals such as Asymptote, Figure 1, Eleven Eleven, Puerto del Sol, Copper Nickel, SRPR, Arsenic Lobster, International Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Timber, and more. Cesarco Eglin is the translator of Claus and the Scorpion by the Galician author Lara Dopazo Ruibal (co•im•press), longlisted for both the 2023 PEN Award in Poetry in Translation and the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry. She is also the translator of Of Death. Minimal Odes by the Brazilian author Hilda Hilst (co•im•press), which was the winner of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. She translated from the Portuñol, together with Jesse Lee Kercheval, Fabián Severo’s Night in the North (Eulalia Books). Cesarco Eglin the publisher of Veliz Books. More at lauracesarcoeglin.com.
Waking in the Sahara, Zaira Pacheco, Lauren Shapiro (Tr.)
Publisher: Eulalia Books
Publication Date: December 4, 2024
Format: Paperback
In the vibrant, minimalist landscape of this book, Puerto Rican poet Zaira Pacheco examines the interplay between illumination and obscurity, using cracks, fissures, pockets of shadows, and ancient water flows to reveal and conceal the traces of human presence. With an essential introduction by poet-translator, Lauren Shapiro, Waking in the Sahara is a dizzying exploration of origins set against the timeless backdrop of rock and sand. Pacheco, with Shapiro, constricts language to delve deeply into the spaces that lie beneath the limits of their names.
Born in 1987 in San Juan, Zaira Pacheco holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona and is a professor of language and literature in the Spanish Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is the author of three books of poetry: Ciutat (2016), Despertar en el Sahara (2019) and La melancolía de Durero (2022), as well as the books of essays Androginia y deseo en Póstumo el transmigrado (2018) and Ciudad y desencanto, Manuel Abreu Adorno (2021). She has published poems and articles in La Torre, Decimonónica, En rojo, Revista Cruce, Blue Gum, Distropika, and Diario de Cuba, among others.
Lauren Shapiro is the author of BRID (Veliz Books, 2024), Arena (CSU Poetry Center, 2020), listed as a top poetry book of 2020 in The New York Times, and Easy Math (Sarabande, 2013), which was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Debut-litzer Prize for Poetry. With Kevin González, she co-edited The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Rescue Press, 2013). She has written two chapbook of poems, House (forthcoming from Finishing Line Press) and Yo-Yo Logic (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2011). Individual poems have appeared in jubilat, Boston Review, Copper Nickel, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Columbia Poetry Review, New Ohio Review, Sixth Finch, Oversound, Annulet, Poetry Northwest, Diode Mississippi Review, and Drunken Boat, among other places. She has translated creative work from Spanish, Italian, Vietnamese, and Arabic into English. She is an associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
Hard Electric, Michael Blouin
Publisher: Anvil Press
Publication Date: December 15, 2024
Format: Paperback
Hard Electric is Michael Blouin’s third book of poetry, a road-tripping, bridge-burning collection of the author’s hard-won and soft-edged reflections that seem to stutter-step towards resolution while tumbling down a decided slant towards disaster. “Where Does My Heart Beat Now” was Celine Dion’s first North American hit and in it she asks: ‘Where do all the lonely hearts go?’
In Hard Electric Blouin presents a bleakly unsettling but ultimately life-affirming treatise that hints at his fascination with the same question and perhaps shuffles into the neighbourhood of an answer. That neighbourhood is peopled with late-night bars of Key West’s Duval Street, the sharp spice of BBQ joints, sunburned beach motels, and Christmas lights frozen to February trees. And Susan Sarandon’s cousin.
It’s a book not for the faint of heart, but for the lonely-hearted, and for those who know them well.
Michael Blouin has been a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award, the bpNichol Award, and the CBC Literary Award. He has been the recipient of the Lilian I. Found Award, the Diana Brebner Award, and the Archibald Lampman Award. His novel Chase and Haven won the ReLit Award for Best Novel, an award he received again for his novel Skin House. He is an instructor at the University of Toronto, a guest lecturer for Carleton University, and serves as an adjudicator for both the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. He lives in Kemptville, Ontario.
awry, Chris McCreary
Publisher: White Stag Publishing
Publication Date: December 1, 2024
Format: Paperback
Emerging from a post-pandemic netherworld, the poems in awry flit like half-remembered dreams streaming through our liminal devices. Listing between rupture & reconfiguration, these verses spin the threads of a web stitching diverse registers & reference points. Tarot cards & twenty-sided dice chart a course for a disoriented, Orphean talk show host. Staggering forth from Orpheus’ darkened soundstage, he searches for the perfect alchemical polymer of pop songs & corporate jargon to imbue midlife’s perilous journey with a synthesis of mythic significance.
Chris McCreary is the author of five previous poetry collections as well as the chapbook Maris McLamoureary’s Dictionnaire Infernal (Empty Set Press), co-authored with Mark Lamoureux. A high school English and creative writing teacher, Chris lives in South Philadelphia.
Mirrors for Princes, Sam Riviere
Publisher: After Hours Editions
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Paperback
Forward-Prize winning poet Sam Riviere is published faithfully by Faber in the UK, in handsome editions that engage variously with artifice, AI, privacy, and process as both a creative engine and subject unto itself. His novel, Dead Souls (Catapult, 2022), was published to massive critical acclaim, and captured a wide US audience for the first time. Now, After Hours Editions is proud to introduce an American audience to Riviere’s poetry, in a varied collection representing roughly a decade of work.
These poems playfully and provocatively take their cue from a mediaeval genre of handbooks for minor rulers (“mirrors for princes”), with Riviere offering “advice” for the young poet or artist, on a range of topics such as masculinity, the fine arts, poetry prizes, identity politics, academia, long distance relationships, technology, drugs, internships, international cuisine, fan mail, interview etiquette, festivals, depression, sports, mindfulness, monarchy, sexting, divorce, and death.
Sam Riviere is the author of the poetry books 81 Austerities (2012), Kim Kardashian’s Marriage (2015), After Fame (2020), and Conflicted Copy (2024, all Faber), as well as numerous limited edition titles. A novel, Dead Souls, was published in 2021 by W&N (UK) and Catapult (USA). He lives in London and runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press.
American Graphic, JoAnne McFarland
Publisher: Green Linden Press
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Paperback
With candor and insight, American Graphic confronts personal and cultural pasts. Juxtaposing historical documents—recipes from the first cookbook published by a Black woman in the States, reward posters for people fleeing enslavement—with intimate moments from the present, the book’s magic is to bend time so we see that the past’s rivers flow through us into the future. Spare yet lyrical in its language, American Graphic is a concentrate of feeling and vision.
JoAnne McFarland is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. She is the Artistic Director of Artpoetica Project Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn, which exhibits works that focus on the intersection of language and visual representation. Her poetry collections include A Domestic Lookbook and Pullman, both recently published by Grid Books, Identifying the Body and the digital album Tracks of My Tears, both published by the Word Works, and Acid Rain, published by Willow Books. JoAnne has artwork in the permanent collections of the Cooper/Hewitt Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Department of State, among many others. She has had fellowships at the BARD Graduate Center Library, KALA Art Institute, the National Arts Club, Cave Canem, Van Alen Institute, and the Painting Center. JoAnne’s artwork is represented by Accola Griefen Fine Art. www.joannemcfarland.com
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Contents
PCR is calling for submissions of original poetry for the first time between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15. We’re also opening to submissions of poem excerpts from full-length collections. Read this post for details!
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/5 from Querencia Press, Grid Books, Finishing Line Press, Fireside Industries, Princeton University Press, BOA Editions Ltd, Bloodaxe Books, Button Poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press, Persea, W. W. Norton and Omnidawn.
Chapbook Poem: copper by nat raum
Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for November 2024, “copper” from salt box by nat raum, along with a few words from the poet.
Poetry Chapbooks (October 2024)
Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in October 2024 by Two Sylvias Press, Yavanika Press, The Poetry Box, Variant Lit, Kith Books, Newfound, Black Lawrence Press, Diode Editions, Nine Syllables Press, Querencia Press, Bottlecap Press and Finishing Line Press.
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/12 from Querencia Press, CavanKerry Press, Talonbooks, Finishing Line Press, Black Ocean, University of Calgary Press and University of Wisconsin Press.
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/19 from Copper Canyon Press. Random House, Winter Editions, Books and Finishing Line Press.
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/26 from Nightboat Books, Alice James Books, NYRB Poets, Unicorn Publishing Group and Finishing Line Press.
Check out new poetry titles for December 2024 from Green Linden Press, After Hours Editions, White Stag Publishing, Anvil Press, Eulalia Books, Empty Bowl, The Song Cave, Variant Literature, University of Nevada Press, LSU Press, Bloodaxe Books and Tupelo Press.
Poetry Chapbooks (November 2024)
Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in November 2024 by Kith Books, Kernpunkt Press, Finishing Line Press and Bottlecap Press.
Chapbook Poem: After Tragedy by Caiti Quatmann
Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for December 2024, “After Tragedy” from Yoke by Caiti Quatmann, along with a few words from the poet.
Review: The Two Hearts Inside Us by Jill R. Burkey
“Jill R. Burkey dares to question in her chapbook, The Two Hearts Inside Us, because ‘questions breed possibility.'” Read the full chapbook review by new PCR contributor, Shelli Rottschafer.