"Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, To 2040, opens in a question punctuated as fact: "Are we / extinct yet. Who owns / the map." In these visionary new poems, Graham is part historian, part cartographer as she plots an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors. In one poem, the speaker is warned by a clairvoyant that "the American experiment...

Wormser's eleventh poetry collection shows him at the apex of his truth-pursuing powers. From a young woman's nude selfie to the affair between Akhmatova and Modigliani to the brief life of a Jewish Résistance fighter, his fierce insights shine.

"The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly encoded to enable both a horizontal reading of the new poem and vertical reading down the right-hand margin of Brooks's original. An array of writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates, have written poems for this...

Poems inspired by a 1955 family photo of Mrs. Nelson, a school teacher, and her 2nd grade elementary class. Mrs. Nelson was the only person of color in the photo with 20 white children. Twenty poets each "claimed" a child in the photo, and wrote one or two poems in the voice of the child, with perspectives about Mrs. Nelson and their own lives on a Salina, Kansas Air Force base

"[A] collection of essays on writers, place, poetry, and photography--with accompanying photos throughout".