In celebration of National Poetry Month, a new book-length poem by Maureen Alsop blends visionary poetry, ecopoetry, and hand-drawn sigils in a meditation on love amid environmental loss.

“These poems walk a tightrope between worlds—grief and praise, beauty and ruin, revelation and secrets, the sacred and the profane, dark humor and wonder—and, in that daringly exhilarating and very tricky journey create another world that merges opposites, that accepts both the willingness and unwillingness to embrace all the different dimensions of a life intensely lived.” —Christien Gholson

“‘Name Me,’ the opener of this long-awaited collection, is a tour de force, it storms in with its chilling juxtaposition of romance and violence in the strong, unapologetic voice of a woman. Kim Noriega is masterful at hitting the right tone with her uncompromising stark naming of male-on-female brutality, using a detailed storyteller’s specificity that reaches effortlessly into collective experience." —Sarah Luczaj

“Tina Barry's startling and eclectic I Tell Henrietta pushes the hybrid aesthetic envelope forward. Part poetry, part micro, these written gems are vividly unclassifiable. Suffused with astute observation, memory and crystalline imagery, Barry's collection is a must read for those who love small works containing multitudes.” -Nathan Leslie, Best Small Fictions, Hurry Up and Relax

Davis artfully traverses paths of personal trauma, chronic illness, and identity, exploring how language and lyricism become acts of survival. The work is a tapestry of fragments—portraits of family, love, loss, and resilience—woven together with precision and heart. Throughout, literary figures such as Lucille Clifton and Ruth Stone appear as luminous guides, offering solace and strength in the darkest moments.

A lyrical journey through language, myth & feminine power, Cook weaves her original poetry; her translations of poetry by celebrated French writer Marie-Claire Bancquart; and 15th century French Tarot into a speculative non-fiction narrative. The result relates an afternoon tour of Paris that spans millennia; an excursion that blurs mythic time and clock time into a lived experience that defies categorization.