2025 Poetry Collection

Familial Hungers
by Christine Wu

Poems that reckon with identity, race, and fractured relationships through the lens of food. Wu relentlessly searches the grocery shelves for the hard-to-digest ingredients of identity and belonging, offering us her nourishing honesty and courage pulled from the marrow.

Tabako on the Windowsill 
by Hari Alluri

Tabako on the Windowsill builds from comic books, television, paintings, folklore, music, and a unique imagination. These poems follow an immigrant point of view while maintaining home in a language that engages with blood and chosen family, with multiple lived and ancestral spaces in India, the Philippines, Nigeria, Canada, and the U.S. 

In Your Nature
by Estlin McPhee

Poems that show us a world in which precedent for gender transition is everywhere if you know how to look. Populated by transmasculine werewolves, homoerotic Jesuses, adolescent epiphanies, dutiful sisters, boy bands, witches, mothers who speak in tongues, and nonnas who cross the sea, this is a book in which relational and narrative continuity exists, paradoxically, as a series of ruptures with the known.

Ring of Dust
by Louise Marois, translated by D.M. Bradford

In Ring of Dust, veteran Quebec poet Louise Marois delights in poetic feints, temporal leaps, asides, tangents, sleights of hand, call-backs and echoes. This ambitious collection of sequences populates plural dialogues between then and now, family and entourage, lover and nature, mother and death, work-person and artist, fables and confidences, limits and new reaches, home and escape, city and field, queer life and a blood red world.

The Garbage Poems
by Anna Swanson

Poems that repurpose the language of beer cans and fast-food wrappers to explore the complex relationships between chronic illness, queerness, climate grief, embodiment, and joy as a means of survival. Paired with tender watercolour illustrations of the source garbage by award-winning artist April White.

Infinite Audition
by Charlie Petch

Part poetry book, part theatre audition resource, Infinite Audition reflects a transmasculine and disabled experience of the world in a voice is funny, humane and rooted in authenticity.

In a Riptide
by Ronna Bloom

Funny while serious, wise without being certain, full of feeling and yet rinsed of sentimentality. The characters in Ronna Bloom’s new collection In a Riptide are tired, sick, old, fragile, baffled, worried, dying, dead, uncertain, snacking, happy, generous, preoccupied, horny, astonished, and sometimes free.