Due to difficulties in obtaining information in advance of chapbook releases, chapbook listings for the previous month are published at the end of each month. This post contains information about poetry chapbooks that we know about published during May 2025.
Information, including product descriptions, is provided by the publisher and not a critical judgment. If we cover the book on this site, links will be included.
Ugly Duckling Presse
Don’t Hide the Madness, Nhã Thuyên, Kaitlin Rees (tr.)
In Don’t Hide the Madness, Vietnamese poet Nhã Thuyên takes seriously the question of how to keep speaking, how to endure in language when it has been and continues to be drained of meaning. Here the language of madness, like the language of dream, offers a possibility of going on.
Nhã Thuyên secludedly anchors herself to Hà Nội, Việt Nam and totters between languages as a writer, translator, and editor.
Small Harbor Publishing
Repeat As Needed, Dustin Brookshire
“Dustin Brookshire’s Repeat as Needed begins with “When I was Straight,” one of the most moving and memorable poems of the last decade. Like many of the poems in this collection, it is an “after poem” inspired by a poem of the same name by Maureen Seaton. Although most of the poems in this collection are provoked by poems written by Brookshire’s poetic mentors, the unmistakable voice is entirely his own. In a terrifying time, as rights of LGBTQIA+, women, immigrants, and differently abled people are being systematically dismantled by the current administration, this book is more important than ever. “Straight people/will say they love us/and vote for politicians/seeking to strip us/of our rights,” he writes in “Straight People.” While many of these poems grapple with painful experiences, they also understand, as Toi Derricotte wrote, “Joy is an act of resistance.” —Jennifer Franklin, author of If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Book, 2023)
Glass Lyre Press
Natural Science, Joyce Schmid
From the first poem about a “glass frog,” the reader understands that these poems about natural science are truly about the science of living life. Both perfectly literal and true to their scientific origins, this wonderful chapbook explores the vulnerability of the human heart, and the evolution of human relationships which, the author hopes, are moving from darkness to light. I love Schmid’s poems: mostly under twenty lines, precisely worded and wonderfully imagined, they find, like Donne once did, a vocabulary for life and love in the discoveries of the natural sciences, from biology to physics. Her cleanly written poems articulate, as the African Broadbill does, how to “be song” rather than just “sing song.” -Publisher Quote
Bottlecap Press
My Colorful Heart, Mona Mehas
Spring brings to mind the colors of my life. From my first to my last, every ex, every relationship, exposed more shades and hues. When I considered a chapbook of poetry dedicated to my loves, everything I found was colorful. Relationships are never black and white or one-sided. That’s what the colors represent to me. The expression of a time in my life. Now that I’m older, the colors fade a little but, in my memory, they’re still bright.
florida, i love you violent, Simran Chugani
florida, i love you violent is a love letter to the communities that hold resistance and joy in the same breath – to those who understand that both love and violence are necessary components for self-acceptance, growth and empowerment. Chugani’s debut chapbook explores a complex love with the place they call home: a love that is fractured by political and social hostility, but one that finds liberation and agency through ancestral connection and chosen family.
Underfoot: On the Climate, Ehlayna Napolitano
The shared project of living on Earth is work that we must do in community with one another — the only way we can truly live, rather than remain paralyzed by despair. Primarily concerned with this theme, Underfoot explores a range of emotions and politics related to climate change.
Shifting between anxiety, anger, hope, and love, these poems are both a salve and a call to action. How can we strengthen our communities and find inspiration therein? How can we fight the capitalist forces that pull us apart and destroy our environment? Can we live — not just survive?
Animals Dance After Midnight, Kaitlyn Anderson
Animals Dance After Midnight delves into themes of artistry, queerness, and sensuality. The poems carry an undertone of magic and unfold as dances with partners and the world around us. The poems celebrate pleasure and expression for their own sake and reveal moments of enchantment and presence, deep into the night.
I Carry You, Anna Eaton-Merkle
I Carry You is a gentle unfolding of moments—some fleeting, some foundational—that mark a life lived in deep relationships. Through spare, evocative language, Anna Eaton-Merkle writes of motherhood, memory, and the quiet rituals that connect generations. From the hush of a 3 a.m. feeding to the echo of a child’s fall on a summer road, these poems honor the weight and wonder of caregiving. Each piece reads like a kept letter or a whispered prayer, rooted in the texture of daily life.
Metadata, Callie B. Dean
In a world where supercomputers and large language models process billions of bits of data every day, Metadata reflects on the role of technology in modern society. Its short, surreal, and sometimes absurd prose poems highlight the ways that technology can foster both connection and disconnection. Inspired as much by spreadsheets and datasets as by bumblebees and tree rings, this collection asks big questions about humanity and transcendence within each small, quirky block of text.
Dreams from the Red House (Felling Difficult Trees), Shawn Keller
Dreams from the Red House (Felling Difficult Trees) is an exploration of time and place through the pulse of abandoned landscapes. Past, present and future come to bear on the author’s vision of a Maine past, or present, or future. Or neither. Or both. Time travel has its own designs. You’ll see.
It is as the boy says, “Art is part heat, part light, part truth, part lies.” Emotion must bring illumination, yet every truth exposes another lie. Which is where the dreams come in. It is said that hypnotism is simply an agreement to dream together.
I See in Circles, Melody Bonilla
Drop a smooth stone into a pool of water and watch the concentric circles ripple along its surface. I See in Circles is a poetry collection that is raw and honest, full of questions and self reflection. Its immersive metaphor invites readers to stare into those same depths and consider. With nuance and artistry, the author observes patterns in life that are circular in appearance as well as cyclical in nature to see what they have to tell us.
The Neon Gods Hum Softly & Other Poems, Ishani Ray
The Neon Gods Hum Softly & Other Poems is a striking collection that navigates the dissonance between the digital age and the raw, unvarnished human experience. Through a blend of visceral imagery and lyrical precision, these poems dissect themes of alienation, artificial intimacy, and the quiet rebellions simmering beneath the surface of modern life. From the electric decay of urban landscapes to the fragile solace found in nature, each piece serves as both a mirror and a provocation, urging readers to confront the cost of progress and the shadows it casts.
Of Blood & Honey: Rituals for the Unforgiven, Evelyn Rhys
Of Blood & Honey: Rituals for the Unforgiven is Evelyn Rhys’s debut poetry collection. It is a haunting journey that moves like a seance through grief, womanhood, and the dark divinity of survival. Moonlit confessions and ancestral fires are at the heart of this collection. Rhys draws on mythic archetypes and visceral language of the flesh to transform pain into sacred incantation. This collection is a journey through a landscape where every wound is a portal.
Agreeable Gray, Samantha Slaven
During a pool party hangout at a friend’s place during the summer of 2023, Samantha Slaven learned that the name of the paint color used to stage houses is Agreeable Gray. This was a lightbulb moment. Over the course of the next few weeks, Samantha began assembling together a collection of new pieces and previously unloved poems that couldn’t manage to stand on their own. Thus, the book, Agreeable Gray, was born.
Agreeable Gray contains poems by a woman who has deemed herself agreeable.
Margins of the Mind, Katie Zurich
In Margins of the Mind, Katie Zurich gives voice to the forgotten spaces where childhood, education, and motherhood collided under the weight of a world undone. These poems move like fault lines—tracing the fractures left by isolation, loss, and a system too quick to reduce children to numbers. With fierce tenderness and an unflinching eye, Zurich bears witness to what was taken, what was overlooked, and what refuses to be forgotten. Each page hums with the messy, beautiful ache of resilience—the kind that grows in quiet classrooms, late- night advocacy emails, and the stubborn hope of parents who refuse to look away.
When to Go to the Taj Mahal, Marcy Rae Henry
When to Go to the Taj Mahal offers an intimate and uncommon glimpse into a Mexican-American woman’s life in Burma and India. Poetry and prose pieces travel from the ghats and meditation centers to Delhi and the awe-inspiring Himalayas. At times a philosophically holistic approach emerges, where consciousness, altered by opium or vipassana, impacts the spirit which influences the physical, yet Henry does not wax sentimental. She is as concerned with the vibrancy of India and Buddhism as with their contradictions.
Sleeper Agent, Meaghan Canavan
Sleeper Agent questions what poetry can be, and what it takes to trigger the poet within us.This collection takes received forms and twists them into mockeries of themselves. They are pushed, and questioned, and reshaped into something not better, but different. Can the familiar be of value? Can the mundane really be turned into something of substance? And even if so, will there be meaning to any of it?
the blue door, s. m. foran
The poems in the blue door display a perceptive awareness of both the simple and the sacred aspects of the countryside. From small gardens to the wild woodlands, the poet takes pleasure in the most modest inhabitants of the natural world but chooses to capture them in moments of profound reflection that reveal a philosophic appreciation for the places in which we live.
Northwoods Recollections, Marilyn Zelke Windau
“In Northwoods Recollections, Marilyn Zelke Windau generously shares poems about a special place, one that has united generations of her family in a heritage of cabin and pine, an ‘environment of beauty.’ With strong sensory images she introduces us to bears ‘chubbing-up’ and spring peepers in full chorus. We listen to the Pembonwon River make its ‘soft, panting sound,’ try to sleep with ‘itchy skin ticked and deer flied,’ watch birches dance, ‘titillating the earth with confetti.’ Zelke Windau brings lyrical language and a naturalist’s eye to a place I have never visited but now long for. She writes, it is ‘enough, with the Milky Way’s stars blooming,’ and I agree.” —Peggy Turnbull (Margaret Coombs), author of Where Sweetness Falls With the Rain (Cyberwit, 2024)
Hawk & Moon, Han VanderHart
Hawk & Moon is a collection of intimate attachment, orbiting the images of the hawk and the moon as it circles human desire, the phases of the moon, and the haiku form. Like the haiku poets, ordinary life and its images are essential to these poems: the “braids floating / down the road / in late summer,” the meal moths flying out of the pantry, the ripe blackberry and “the flower before it…the thorn after.”
Defiant Devotion, Dolo Diaz
These poems thread memory, faith, and familial tension, moving fluidly between reverence and rebellion. They capture the absurdities and emotional truths of religious life, embracing its contradictions: the tenderness of childhood ritual, the weight of unspoken judgment, and the echo of formative beliefs.
Dolo Diaz wrote this series in a single three-hour stretch, as if possessed by memory. Committing them to the page became a form of reckoning—and perhaps a way to offer poetic company to others on their own spiritual paths.
A Postmodern Exit, Hunter Kettering
A Postmodern Exit is a self-reflexive chapbook composed in both reflection and streams of consciousness, blurring the lines between memory and presence. The autobiographical collection reads as a testament to the tribulations of the coming of age experience today, a epoch defined by the necessity to leave the precedents of the postmodern world for a new collective state of redefinition: metamodernism. In this context of cultural change, there is a requirement to first know thyself in the particular, and thus the poems are explorations of identity.
Finishing Line Press
Serendipity in France, Esther Sadoff
“Serendipity in France” by Esther Sadoff is a collection of poetry that traverses the inner life of its subject as she discovers herself in the everyday world of a distant place. As Serendipity studies “what everything means,” common objects take on new meaning as she observes them. She wants to be seen but also feels too exposed “like ice melting into a puddle.” But Serendipity is an intrepid woman who “doesn’t want to lie down. / She sits at the ready, she stands. / Ready to plunge, to dive into anything.” Sadoff’s poems are brave and suspenseful as she follows this traveler who wants “the chance to hold luck between her teeth.” –Judy Ireland, SoFloPoJo Senior Poetry Editor
Where the Wildflowers Sleep, Breanna Discar
Where the Wildflowers Sleep is a collection of poems that captures raw moments in the wake of infertility and infant loss. The poems walk along the non-linear path of grief, exploring how loss affects how we relate to others, to the world around us, and to ourselves. Ranging from self-reflective to unapologetically bitter, the work does not seek resolution or understanding but rather invites the reader to simply sit alongside the bereaved.
Edge of Highway, J. A. Lagana
Set against a backdrop of highways, backroads, and nature’s seasonal shifts, the poems in Edge of Highway delve into how a long daily commute provides opportunities for self-reflection, reconciliation, and the sorting of emotional entanglements.
For over two decades, writer J. A. Lagana drove three-hours round-trip, five days per week, on her daily commute. Her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Cider Press Review, Heron Tree, Rattle, RockPaperPoem, and elsewhere.
Diluvium, Annie Freshwater
Leveraging natural history as a lens, Diluvium is an evocative exploration of trauma, family, and personal evolution. Join the author on a contemplative walk through the museum of her memories—and excavate meaning for your own journey through these meditations on the fossilized past.
As a poet and novelist, Annie Freshwater explores the ways in which we populate our inner and outer landscapes with ghosts of our own making.
Border Crossings, Raymond Berthelot
In Border Crossings, Berthelot’s second chapbook with Finishing Line Press, the author explores the grey areas between the awake and the dream, the border lands, sometimes violent, sometimes an oasis, that form the buffer between rational and fantasy. Here are poems that reflect the world as it is, whether a Paris under the moon, or Latin America in the harsh light of reality, and the universe of the mind. These poems, rooted in the natural, can best be described as Charles Bowden, noted journalist, stated, are where the “border of our body vanishes and we become one with the land.”
What We’ve Become, darlene anita scott
Defined as mutual trust, care, and acceptance intimacy is an enigma. Humans crave (and require) mutuality, but humans do not crave the vulnerability required of it. Intimacy expects the person practicing it to be vulnerable and vulnerability is inherently unsafe which challenges our primal survival instinct. This is the paradox that motivates these poems where subjects decide to endure in, or evade, intimacy also to meet their primal needs. The choices determine not just who we do or don’t spend our lives with but how we spend them.
Patsy’s Gingerbread Fantasy, Darlene M. Javar
Patsy’s Gingerbread Fantasy, set in multicultural Hawaii, includes poems of ohana, resolve, and perseverance, aloha transcending time and place as a family endures and grieves for losses across decades. Layers of meaning unfold through carefully depicted images and scenes centered around a mother whose grit and passions are timeless. The reader is emersed in culture, country, and coffee as he/she travels to rural Pahala Town in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Punaluʻu Beach during a tidal wave, Queen’s Medical Center on Oahu, and a kitchen filled with gingerbread house candies, nutmeg, turmeric, anise and lucky bottom fish to steam on the barbeque grill.
Embodied, Karen Klein
”In this accomplished collection, Klein gives us the straight-no-chaser account of what it is like to live in a woman’s body, specifically hers– for over 80 years. As a man, it was enlightening to read this vivid poetry, and to realize a woman’s physical, sexual, and spiritual journey. Whether writing about her clitoritis, the pains of birth, or the aging body, she delivers with masterful strokes. I was always tell student poets to ‘bleed’ in their work—and I would use this book as a shining example.” –Doug Holder/Co-President of the New England Poetry
Tales of an Anxious Hiker, Heather Kolf
Tales of an Anxious Hiker grew out of a year-long hiking challenge and a need for an acceptable place to throw a civilized tantrum in the wake of loss. Grief, fear, tacos, Jeff Daniels, the purpose of mosquitoes – nothing is off-limits as the poems wind their way through the forests and sand dunes of Michigan (with brief visits to Ohio and Arizona). Nature – at both its finest and most misery-inducing – is on full display here. And if Nature is worried about what people will think of it, then maybe Nature should have behaved better.
Songs from the Multiverse, M. L. Lyons
M. L. Lyons is a poet, writer and arts advocate. She was awarded a Klepser fellowship in Creative Writing from University of Washington. After interning at Copper Canyon Press, she co-edited “Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workplace”. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart and recently she received a scholarship to Hedgebrook writers residency.
Views from the Lanai, Patricia Barry
When poet Patricia Barry moves from New York City to Palm Coast, Florida, she is overwhelmed by the iconic wildlife, particularly the magnificent birds, which she observes from the lanai behind her new home. In these deeply felt and intricately described poems, she reveals how her familiarity with osprey, herons, ibis, and the varieties of flora and fauna educates and awakens her senses. With Nature as her primary teacher, Barry gradually overcomes feelings of dislocation and isolation in the time of COVID and beyond. Her journey of exploration and self-discovery leads her to embrace this once-strange habitat as home.
She Loves me, She Loves me Not, Madari Pendas
She Loves me, She Loves me Not is a queer poetry collection structured as a metaphorical bouquet, weaving together diverse experiences, impressions, expressions, and moments. The collection explores themes of identity, the journey of coming out, friendships that blur the line with romance, the complexities of limerence, and the lingering wounds left by profound love.
Madari Pendas is a Cuban-American writer, translator, and painter.
The Persistent Trilium, Brenda Kay Ledford
Brenda Kay Ledford is a retired educator and member of North Carolina Writer’s Network. Her work has appeared in many journals. She’s received an “Award of Excellence” 13 times from North Carolina Society of Historians for her blogs and books. She’s the author of “Leatherwood Falls,” “Blanche,” and “Beckoning.”
Wild Like a Woman, Thalia Geiger
Wild Like a Woman is an extensive meditation on femininity, born as a reaction to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Like grief, this collection cycles through various emotional stages. Featuring moments of loss and lamentation to rage and defiance, the focus subsequently shifts to the celebration of feminine resilience. From girlhood to womanhood and back again, Wild Like a Woman acknowledges every little joy in between that makes womanhood remarkably bittersweet.
KEELING, Sarah Peecher
Keeling tracks Sarah Peecher’s memories through churning spaces and documentation—the church, school, a childhood bedroom, fields, and gardens; an etymology, a transcription, and a log of the body. It pins together memories in double vision through a pair of “diplopia” poems and explores memory’s disintegration through poems with disappearing words. Along the way, a persona known as the Girl carefully observes a wildfire’s destruction. These poems speak to Peecher’s hankering for a dismantling of the structures that stifled her in her youth and the simultaneously dizzying reverberations felt from their loss. Through her mother’s wisdom and stories, combined with her own resilience, the poet discovers that just because she’s keeling, doesn’t mean she’ll never find solid ground.
Living with Waves, Megan Griffin
Living with Waves is a collection of poems which explores the complexities of loss and how a grief journey changes shape over time. Within each poem are unique moments of mourning brought on by loss through suicide, cancer, and dementia. The speaker confronts a discomfort with death and questions grieving rituals in American society. A societal tendency to avoid difficult conversations surrounding death informs how people experience grief. This collection encourages readers to start these conversations within themselves and with those they are grieving alongside.
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL LOSS, Shelley Jinks Johnson
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL LOSS is a meditative and lyrical collection of poems that explore the deep, often paradoxical journey of loss and the delicate process of rediscovering joy. Through intimate reflections, this collection guides the reader through the raw, unspoken spaces of sorrow—its weight, its silence, its unexpected beauty. But amid the pain, this collection also holds space for healing and renewal. As the poems unfold, they weave threads of hope, resilience, and the surprising moments of grace that emerge in the aftermath of heartbreak. There is a quiet celebration of the human ability to rebuild, to find laughter again, and to dance with the fleeting moments of light in the midst of shadow.
Purchase, Don Colburn
“Purchase,” the title of Don Colburn’s new poetry collection, is one of his favorite words, for its less common meaning of “firm hold” or “traction.” As the opening poem suggests, the poems here try to find “a momentary grip on the world before it slips free and you start over.” In this sense, purchase is a form of worldly attention, a way to bear witness. “For in the world we jostle,” as John Keats wrote in a letter to a friend in 1818. And our world is by turns troublesome, cantankerous, bewildering and beautiful. Purchase is Colburn’s sixth collection, including one full-length book and five shorter chapbooks; all six won or placed in national manuscript contests. A retired newspaper reporter for The Washington Post and other papers, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. His writing honors also include the Discovery/The Nation Award, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. These new poems are prompted by ordinary and extraordinary experience: seasonal changes, jury duty, George Floyd’s murder, history recalled, a painter’s work, a journeyman pitcher’s one perfect game, mass shootings far and near, an oddly named bird, a mug of coffee on an unremarkable morning, a solar eclipse, Thanksgiving in a time of war. And throughout, the difficult necessity of finding right words.
Mrs. Silva Walks to the Azores: A Story in Ten Cantos, Michael Bickford, Bruna Dantas Lobato (Tr.)
In her daily walks through the neighborhood, struggling with the limitations of her aging body, Mrs. Silva becomes the immigrant spirit of the Azores, of Portuguese, of America. Her quotidian courage to endure, to rise above, reflects the heroism of women everywhere. With inspiring dignity, Mrs. Silva’s personal journey to the end of the lane, to the end of Portuguese diaspora, becomes a passage to the edge of the western continent, to the edge of history.
Blaze without Burning, William May
Blaze without Burning, William May’s debut collection, offers readers of poetry a deeply personal, intricately structured exploration of resilience, transformation, and human connection. Scheduled for publication in May 2025 from Finishing Line Press, this chapbook stands out for its innovative approach to form: each poem in the first section is paired with a “twin” poem in the second section, two poems sharing a title but presenting distinct perspectives. More than a simple stylistic choice, this twinned structure forms the heart of the chapbook, allowing a thematic and emotional resonance that provides an opportunity for the reader to reinterpret and re-experience what has been presented. As in life, nothing in these poems is singular or fixed, but every moment, emotion, and choice communicated within this work has its counterpart. William May’s Blaze without Burning exemplifies the ways poetry can illuminate, and ultimately connect us all.
Memento Mori: a book of sonnets, M. Brooke Wiese
Many years have transpired between the publication of M. Brooke Wiese’s first chapbook and this, her second, Memento Mori, published by FLP. Wiese’s first, titled At the Edge of the World and written in her “salad days,” was full of youthful wonder and romantic yearnings. In this book, Wiese considers with the practiced eye of a lifelong observer all the things that make up a life: the flush of youth in her teenaged sons, failed relationships, renewed love, the societal tragedies of our own creation, the death of parents “papery and brittle as a late-Autumn leaf riddled with pinholes,” and her ageing self – “I am losing at least one word a day…” – a poet’s worst nightmare. In one poem the poet holds her fingers to the night sky on either side of the bright, full moon as if she is cradling it between her spread fingers, or holding her whole world in her hand. From inside the shadows of mortality, Wiese looks forward and back and then forward again, meditating on the renewal of life in a spring leaf unfurling “in palest green,” the magnificence of a red-tailed hawk gallivanting around the city, delight in a pod of dolphins spotted on a beach walk, and the lights across the bay that “glitter along the mainland shore like far-away planets and stars.” There’s always something new to see.
The Worrying Stone, Benjamin D. Carson
Elegiac in tone, The Worrying Stone speaks to the vicissitudes of love and loss, of death and dying, and the wages of regret. Relationships fray. Individuals struggle at the edge of sanity. An old man waits to die, while another comes to terms with a youthful impulse to kill. Lives are often rent by violence and shaped by grief. In simple, plain-spoken language, these poems aim at the concreteness of objects, of circumstance, and illuminate the beauty in what Carson calls “the rough poetry of things.”
Chronicle of an Obsession: Love, Death, and the Prostate, David C. Meyer
Chronicle of an Obsession: Love, Death, and the Prostate is a journey that begins with the diagnosis of prostate cancer in 2008 and spans a decade and a half of struggle, sadness, tenderness, and loss. The narrative examines how both a man and his wife deal with aging and the loss of sexual potency, while losing neither carnal desire or the tenderness that flows from deep love. Ultimately, though passion is thwarted by the flesh, the tenderness expressed in passion endures.
A Child’s Sketch of the Afterlife, Brian Dickson
A Child’s Sketch of the Afterlife ushers you into worlds familiar and unfamiliar, the sacred and the profane, where the poems leave you in a sense of wonder as you wander through images of a turkey leg, a corpse flower and an Amazon Prime Van delivering chicks. Congratulate yourself on the journey through this landscape, then read it again with your own sketch in hand.
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Book Excerpt: The Prize of Québec by Jennifer Nelson
“I tend to lean into the transconstitutory powers of ekphrasis. … Only in poetry can one go to the moon in a way that critiques the quest for the moon.” Read a poem from Jennifer Nelson’s new collection from Fence Books, On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies.
Chapbook Poem: This Is How They Teach Us How to Want It . . . by Shanta Lee
“This poem explores the levels of our participation in handing ourselves over, often to the people, places, or things that deserve no such delight.” Read a #poem from Shanta Lee’s new book from Harbor Editions, This Is How They Teach Us How to Want It . . . The Slaughter.
Three Poems by Jonathan Fletcher
“Instead of having to choose between religion or the LGBTQ community (which I know many member of the latter feel they have to do), I think it is possible (and maybe even biblical) to integrate both into one’s life.” Read three original poems from Jonathan Fletcher, along with words from the author.
What Happened? On You are Leaving the American Sector by Rebecca Foust
“Rebecca Foust’s new chapbook of poems has a strange prescience. … Foust isn’t alone in making the obvious connection between Trump’s first term and Orwell’s dystopia.” Read the full chapbook review by new contributor Rick Mullin.
‘What if we started creating together? What if we looked at who we are from the side and saw a much more complete and honest perspective?” Read four poems by poet Sarah E N Kohrs, along with words from the poet.
Book Excerpt: Challenger by Colleen S. Harris
“If we look beyond the voyeuristic tendency to focus on the tragedy, what might we see? This poem was a chance for me to zoom in on the calm before the storm.” New poem from Colleen S. Harris’s new book from Main Street Rag, The Light Becomes Us, along with words from the poet.
Chapbook Poem: What I Did This Summer by Elinor Serumgard
“I love New Year’s and the promise of a new start, but I like to remind myself that you can start fresh at any point throughout the year.” New poem from Elinor Serumgard’s chapbook from Bottlecap Press, Analogous Annum, along with words from the poet.
Four Poems by Christa Fairbrother
“Since women aren’t allowed the power of our anger, we take it out on each other, and that’s what this poem is hinting at.” Read four poems by Christa Fairbrother, along with words from the poet.
Multilingualism and Metaphor: On Desire/Halves by Jaia Hamid Bashir
“Bashir’s elegant debut collection investigates identity as the result of choices between individual appetites and cultural frames. … [It] announces an exciting addition to the global chorus of contemporary literature.” Read D.W. Baker’s full review.
Five Poems by Jane Ellen Glasser
“In my fantasy world, I would be able to communicate with the animals I see every day.” Read five naturalist poems by poet Jane Ellen Glasser, along with a few words from the poet.
Book Excerpt: Ars Poetica by Leigh Sugar
“[C]ould there be, a poetry that does investigate the body, without explosion? Maybe even with an effort towards reconstruction?” Read an excerpt from Leigh Sugar’s book, FREELAND, from Alice James Books, along with words from the author.
“…she has a sense of style, a modicum of grace, and she recognizes her place in the cosmic order, where revolution rules every other Wednesday and twice, of course, on Sundays…” Read three poems by Bart Edelman along with words from the poet.
Chapbook Poem: I Worry by Flavian Mark Lupinetti
“I can’t begin to imagine doctors in Gaza courageously practicing medicine while intentionally targeted by the Israeli army aided by the United States.” Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for June 2025, “I Worry” from The Pronunciation Part by Flavian Mark Lupinetti.
“Quantum physics leads us to the uncanny and the terrifying. I know people fear black holes, but to me they rearrange our relationship to time and to our own lives.” Read four #poems by Victoria Korth along with words from the poet.