Poetry

This brief, potent book offers a fresh understanding of diaspora; readers of contemporary poetry will seek it out.

Speaking to Jew and Gentile, believer and nonbeliver, this poetry collection makes our hungers radiant. Highly recommended.

Slip into the evocative pleasures of language with stellar works of revelation, confrontation, and grace.

Not to be missed; sure to be one of the best collections of the year.

The poems in Exits explore the beauty and frailty of life, the cycles of nature, and the potential for renewal. In a time of great uncertainty, Exits responds to prevailing anxieties and to the universal search for meaning. At its core, Exits is a meditation on mortality.

Library Journal commissioned Houston Poet Laureate Aris Kian to write about her relationship to libraries and their mission. Her poem’s title is a reference to the world’s oldest tree.

Collections to celebrate National Poetry Month. Slip into blossom season and savor sound, lyric, and line.

"Methuselah" by Aris Kian

Discover verse with style and substance, unsettling proclamations, and contained majesty in the best poetry collections of 2023.