Contemporary Poetry Bundle

Discover new voices through verse

Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Ocean Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with. This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level.

Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages — bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers — be touched and held as beloveds.

Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie?