Sweet, surreal, and haunting, these poems by Luis Muñoz examine both the frictions and elusiveness that can occur between self and others. The slowing down of time, the gentle observation of sunlight like “golden cookies on the bedspread” as you lie next to a lover. The feeling of solitude rendering you as small and still as a garbanzo bean, yearning as much for water and light as to continue being left alone.

Tess Taylor reviews One Moment by Luis Muñoz.

Over the course of (now) ten collections of poetry spanning 35 years, Rosanna Warren has established herself as one of our preeminent limners of modern life through carefully crafted lines. Marked by activated language, Warren’s poems can startle and, to quote Melville’s Ahab, “strike through the mask.”

Carl Little reviews Hindsight, by Rosanna Warren.

The poems in Beatrix Gates’s The Burning Key, a book drawing together the poet’s work across a half-century from seven collections, translations, and uncollected poems, are precision instruments attuned to the great work of being human in community and in love. A cumulative peopled landscape emerges

through these often-elegiac poems.

Poet Claire Millikin reviews The Burning Key, published by Thera Books.

Written over the span of a decade, Green of All Heads is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, Aracelis Girmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children.

Poet Melissa McKinstry reviews Green of All Heads, published by BOA Editions.

"The observant sixth collection from Larkin (Blue Hanuman) offers an extensive miscellany while continuing the poet's career-long interest in the body. ... Amid losses, restitutions, sudden joys, and unknowns, this volume sustains an appealing verve." —Publishers Weekly

Poet Jefferson Navicky reviews Old Stranger, published by Alice James Books and looks at some of the transcendant moments in life, and in the poetry of Joan Larkin.

“Lyrical and unafraid, The New Economy invites us to name our fears and sorrows, to write to who or what has left us, to create practices that can hold both the darkness and light of this (in)finite life.”

Poet Bruce Spang reviews Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s latest book, The New Economy published by Copper Canyon Press, 2025. Spang challenges his own feelings about gender fluidity and examines (and releases) preconceived ideas about writing and identity, and steps into the “empire of being”.