National Poetry Month

In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the experiences of QPOC in the United States. Now, Nepantla will appear for the first time in print as a survey of poetry by queer poets of color throughout U.S. history, including literary legends such...

"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented...

"A book of poetry moving through the seasons"-- Provided by publisher.

"A testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture"--Page 4 of cover.

"A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, "the organ and the tissue / and the cell, the membrane and the organelle.""-- Provided by publisher.

"Queer resistance poetry, feminist poems, LGBTQIA+, religious trauma, Catholic prayers; reclaimed Bible verses, recovery, solidarity, gender liberatory, lesbian poetry, Canadian poetry."-- Provided by publisher.

"A scholar and a librarian, Mosab Abu Toha is also a major poet whose first collection made him a talent to celebrate. After graduating from a master's program at Syracuse, he returned home to complete his second work. Then the current assault on Gaza began. When the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety--not for the first time in their...

The book is a three-part epic that dares to explore how queer bodies can birth new marvels in the wake of personal and ecological trauma. Vampire Burrito is nothing if not a bigmouth. A hillsong. A werewolf in an airport terminal. A tomorrow colored like a goodbye. An eventually, an eventually, an eventually.a

"Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with violence, shame, easy pessimism, their responsibility as a poet, and their hometown of the Twin Cities. Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, this book is a kind of manifesto about artistic resilience, even when time and will can seem fleeting,...

"The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyful celebration of big feelings, tender truths, and hard-won wisdom, for fans of Maggie Smith, Kate Baer, and Kate Kennedy. At long last, a book of poetry for people who didn't even know they liked poetry. And they're in good company: author Lyndsay Rush didn't know she liked it either. That is, until she embarked on an internet experiment under the Instagram...