Abby Paige

Discover new poetry books by Kaitlyn Purcell, Sina Queyras, and K.B. Thors.

A question from a friend was the catalyst for Museum of Kindness, Susan Elmslie’s latest book of poems. “She asked me, ‘What’s your genre?’” the poet recounts, “And she meant, essentially, what metaphor speaks to where you are in your life right now?”

Reviews of poetry collections from Joséphine Bacon, Marc Plourde, Yusuf Saadi, and Alex Manley.

This season's selection of poetry collection.

Since 2006, poets Susan Gillis, Mary di Michele, Jan Conn, and Jane Munro have been studying and composing renku, a Japanese form of collaborative linked verse.

There is a restlessness in Susan Gillis’s poems, a reluctance to lay down roots.

"I like snapshots,” Gillian Sze says brightly. There is a plate of charmingly small cookies between us, and she is taking a picture of them with her phone. "I like trying to crystallize moments or little details. But then again, maybe all poets are trying to do that."